• 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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Plant, machinery and equipment

Defining rural plant, machinery and equipment
What is rural plant?

Plant associated risks
Electricity, confined spaces, silo safety, working at heights and noise.

Elevating work platforms - Operational and maintenance instructions (non-Queensland Government link)
Safe operational and maintenance of elevating work platforms used in connection with commercial fruit growing industries.

Front-end loaders (PDF, 1.58 MB)
Front end loader attachments designed for use on a tractor can be hazardous to operate. This guide covers the design, manufacture, supply and safe use of a front end loader (FEL), and its ancillary attachments on a tractor.

Grain augers (PDF, 1.11 MB)
This industry safety standard provides practical assistance for designers, manufacturers, suppliers and users of grain augers. It covers the design and use of all new grain augers, including pencil, transportable and self-propelled grain augers.

Post hole drivers (PDF, 1.03 MB)
Provides assistance for designers, manufacturers, suppliers and users of post drivers. This industry safety standard covers all new power-driven post drivers, including those with integrated hydraulic earth auger systems driven by a tractor, or by other means.

Slashers (PDF, 1.28 MB)
This guide provides practical guidance for designers, manufacturers, suppliers and users of slashers. The specifications in this guide apply to all trailed, semi-trailed, three-point linkage mounted or multi-linkage mounted slashers, with one or more blade assemblies of over 750 mm (29.5 inch) blade tip circle diameter and designed for slashing grass and other regrowth or crop residue.