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Rural Codes of Practice

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• Manual handling
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• Sun safety and heat stress
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Rural Industry Action Plan

The rural industry action plan was released on 5 March 2008 to support the second stage of the Queensland Workplace Health and Safety Strategy 2004-12, which aims to reduce the incidence of work-related injuries by 40 per cent and fatalities by 20 per cent.

Industry specific initiatives in this action plan include:

• providing on-property health and safety workshops for the cattle and horticulture industries
• providing workshops in safer systems of work to reduce injuries associated with farm vehicles, elevating work platforms, animal handling, picking ladders, knives and preventing leptospirosis
• investigating the feasibility of developing a health and safety induction program for all people who work in rural industries.

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Related documents

• Queensland Workplace Health and Safety Strategy 2004-12
• Musculoskeletal Framework 2007-10
• Occupational Disease Strategy 2007-10
• Action Plans for other industry groups

Last updated 22 July 2008

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