• 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
• Rural chemicals
  • Using chemicals
  • Storing chemicals
  • Disposing of chemicals and containers
  • Transporting chemicals and dangerous goods
  • Using pesticides
  • Record keeping
  • Rural chemicals guide (PDF, 693 kb)
• 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

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Rural chemicals

Using chemicals
General safety, phosphine fumigation, spray drift, residue levels, labelling, applying chemicals, personal protective equipment, health surveillance.

Storing chemicals
Storing chemicals safely.

Disposing of chemicals and containers
Disposal requirements, disposal locations.

Transporting chemicals and dangerous goods
What to consider, keep a record.

Using pesticides
Follow instructions, applying pesticides, spraying pesticides, cleaning up pesticides, other information.

Record keeping
Requirements for record keeping.

Rural chemicals guide (PDF, 683 kB)
Guidance on managing risks to health and safety arising from the storage, use, transport and disposal of chemicals at rural workplaces. Includes practical information on how to comply with the relevant legislation, including Part 16 of the Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 2008 relating to rural chemicals.