Agriculture - Guidelines for the Provision of Safety, Health and Accommodation in
General guidelines providing useful information to enable employers in the agriculture industry to comply with their duties under the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 and regulations.
Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword
About these guidelines
Content of the guidelines
Application of reference information
Definitions
Part 1: Safety and health generally
1.1 Duties of employers
1.2 Duties of persons in control of the place of work
1.3 Duties of employees
1.4 Duties of self employed
1.5 Duties of principals
1.6 Children and young persons
1.7 Agrichemicals
1.8 Animal handling
1.9 Cleanliness
1.10 Construction work on farms
1.11 Electrical safety
1.12 Fencing vessels and excavations containing liquids
1.13 Forestry work on farms
1.14 Hazard identification and control
1.15 Health monitoring
1.16 Occupational diseases
1.17 Noise
1.18 Manual handling
1.19 Prevention of falls from heights
1.20 Ladders
1.21 Work-related visits to private land (farm or other property)
1.22 Recreational visitors to farms, private or public land
1.23 Silos, bins and tanks
1.24 Solar ultraviolet radiation (sunburn)
1.25 Training of employees
1.26 Woolshed safety
1.27 Working under loads
1.28 Workshop safety
1.29 Protective clothing and equipment
Part 2: Agricultural machinery
2.1 Responsibilities of machinery designers, manufac-turers and suppliers
2.2 General precautions and maintenance of machinery
2.3 Hydraulic machinery
2.4 Power take-off driveshafts and other shafts
2.5 Transmission machinery
2.6 Augers
2.7 Balers (conventional)
2.8 Balers (round)
2.9 Chainsaws
2.10 Cherry pickers
2.11 Combine harvesters
2.12 Conveyors
2.13 Dag crushers
2.14 Disc harrows
2.15 Forage harvesters
2.16 Front-end loaders
2.17 Lifting gear
2.18 Mowers (tractor-mounted PTO driven)
2.19 Self-feeding trailers
2.20 Tractor power take-off stub shafts
2.21 Three- and four-wheeler all terrain vehicles (ATVs) and motorcycles
2.22 Tractor driver training and supervision
2.23 Young people on tractors
2.24 Tractor safety frames
2.25 Woodworking machinery
2.26 Wool presses (portable)
Part 3: General facilities and amenties for agricultural workers
3.1 Accommodation for clothing and changing clothing (day workers)
3.2 Accommodation for employees and contractors residing on the farm
3.3 First aid
3.4 Facilities and amenities for employees and contractors residing on the farm
3.5 Facilities in packing sheds and processing areas
3.6 Meal facilities for day workers not residing on the farm
3.7 Cleanliness
3.8 Sickness
Appendix: Relevant OSH and other publications
