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• 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

Rural Codes of Practice

• 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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Rural industry

In order to understand the workplace health and safety requirements for the rural industry, and your obligations under the law you must consider and understand relevant legislation and codes of practice.

What law applies
Workplace health and safety legislation, regulations, advisory standards, industry codes of practice

Workplace obligations
Obligations for employers and employees, workplace amenities, first aid and training

Plant, machinery and equipment
Operating plant, machinery and equipment safely

Safe use, storage and disposal of rural chemicals
Use, storage, disposal, transport chemicals, pesticides, transporting dangerous goods, and record keeping

Orchard operations
Using tractors in orchards, harvesting fruit

Animal hazards
Handling horses, pigs, cattle and sheep, shearing, zoonotic diseases, snakes, spiders, scorpions and centipedes

Rural Industry Action Plan
Outlining key health and safety priorities for 2008-10

Rural farm fact sheets
A set of fact sheets covering key safety topics for the rural industry such as ATVs, cattle handling, chainsaws, horse riding, machinery guarding, shearing, ROPS and more.

Last updated 3 July 2008

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