• 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

• 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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Tractors

Tractors used in an orchard are not required to be fitted with a ROPS if obstructions from low branches and hail netting guy wires may interfere with the operation of the tractor. However, if the tractor is to be used elsewhere on the farm it must be fitted with ROPS.

More information on tractor safety and ROPS requirements

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