Agricultural workbook
The Agriculture workbook should be read in conjunction with the Agricultural safety and health checklist.
This workbook has been developed to assist people in the agricultural sector to reduce the likelihood of injuries and detrimental affects to health occurring where they work. The workbook can either be downloaded or relevant pages accessed from links within the checklist.
The resource is comprehensive and user friendly, to ensure that the time you spend in making your workplace safe and healthy is well spent.
How to use this resource
Put this address in your ‘favourites’ with other important information relating to your property, like manuals and business information. That way you will remember to use it regularly.
Step One: Print the checklist to take with you on the property or complete the online version and use it to identify hazards and assess how safe your property is.
Print extra copies when you need to do another inspection.
Step Two: Where hazards are identified on your property use the workbook to obtain additional information on each of the items on the checklist and useful tips for you to improve safety management, along with further information sources.
Step Three: If you want more information on an issue in the workbook, click on the required item below
- Agricultural mobile plant safety
- Agricultural chemical safety
2a Agricultural chemical safety-Pesticides - Electrical safety
- Agricultural bikes
- Grain movement and storage
- Machinery guarding
- Noise
- Manual handling
- Fuel storage on rural properties
- Workshop safety
- Emergency procedures and first aid
- Safety induction
- Safety and health checklist
The Agricultural safety and health workbook and checklist has been developed in consultation with the Western Australian Farmers Federation (Inc.) FarmSafe Alliance and the Pastoralists and Graziers Association.