• What law applies
• Workplace obligations
• Employers
• Workers
• Workplace amenities and first aid
• Workplace incidents
• Training
• Personal protective equipment
• Plant, machinery and equipment
• Defining rural plant, machinery and equipment
• Operating plant, machinery and equipment safely
• Plant associated risks
• Safe use, storage and disposal of rural chemicals
• Using chemicals
• Storing chemicals
• Disposing of chemicals and containers
• Transporting chemicals and dangerous goods
• Using pesticides
• Record keeping
• Orchard operations
• Tractors
• Harvest
• Animal hazards
• General information
• Horse handling
• Cattle handling
• Sheep handling
• Shearing
• Pig handling
• Diseases from animals
• Dangerous snakes
• Distinctive spiders
• Scorpions and centipedes

• Training
• Risk management
• First aid
• Manual handling
• Noise
• Personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Sun safety and heat stress
• Tractor safety
• Exclusion zones
• Safety switches

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Using chemicals

General safety
Assess chemicals, read the MSDS, separate incompatible substances, safe work procedures

Phosphine fumigation
Hazards of inhalation and flammability

Spray drift
Control measures

Residue levels
Maximum residue levels

Labelling
Labelling requirements

Applying chemicals
Application methods, re-entry periods

Personal protective equipment
Check the MSDS for suitability, other requirements

Health surveillance
Requirements for health surveillance

Last updated 21 August 2008

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