• 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 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.

Quadbikes
Quad bikes in the workplace, safety tips when operating a quad bike, quad bike training.

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

Rural chemicals
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.

Orchard operations
Using tractors in orchards, operation and maintenance of elevating work platforms and harvesting fruit.

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

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.

Health and safety solution
Practical information on how to solve or improve a common problem in the workplace.

Horse riding

Mango production/picking