Veterinary group provides its practices with helmets for team members

In a push for safety, Vetpartners has provided all of its practices with helmets to keep them safe when conducting procedures with equine patients

Next week (commencing 17 May) will see Vetpartners highlighting the importance of wearing a helmet to help keep its team members safe while working with horses, as well as providing extra safety training. The campaign, called Hat Hair – Don’t Care, saw Vetpartners team up with Charles Owen to provide practices with helmets and branded silks.

The group encourages staff to wear helmets when…

• leading
• holding horses for examinations
• lungeing
• grooming
• turning out and bringing in
• clipping, shoeing, while giving injections and during nasogastric intubation
• loading
• riding

Vetpartners equine executive member Carrie Goodbourn, who’s overseeing the campaign, said: “Head injuries are sadly a high risk for vets and nurses in practices and occur in all sorts of circumstances. People can be seriously hurt and, in some cases, suffer life-threatening injuries, so the health and safety of our colleagues has to be top of our agenda.

“In other professions and disciplines within the equine industry, the wearing of hard hats has for a long while been accepted as the norm and a mandatory safety requirement. In taking those steps, we’re aligning ourselves with leading, respected organisations like the British Horse Society, which has been active in advocating the wearing of hard hats for many years.”

For more information, visit vetpartners.co.uk