• What law applies
• What are the main risks with tractors
• Rollover protective structures (ROPS)
  • What are rollover protective structures (ROPS)?
  • Designers and manufacturers
• Falling object protective structures (FOPS)
• Safety features
• Tractor operation
  • Tractor operation
  • Before buying a tractor
  • Before starting a tractor
  • Safety of the operator
  • Tractor design
  • Working with tractors
  • Stopping a tractor
  • Passengers on tractors
• Maintenance and modification
• Training

Safe Design and Operation of Tractors Code of Practice 2005

• Risk Management
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Workplace incidents and inspections

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Passengers on Tractors

Passengers SHOULD NOT be allowed to ride on tractors.

Passengers can not be effectively protected by ROPS and safe, adequate passenger seating is generally not incorporated into the design of tractors.

Only for the purpose of instruction and training or in situations of extreme emergency to get to or from the scene of a serious accident, should a passenger travel on a tractor.

Where a tractor is routinely used for the purpose of instruction or training, a safe system of work should be maintained. This may involve instruction by:

• two way radio, or
• the provision of a seat or platform with handrail which prevents the instructor slipping, falling or being thrown from the tractor

Most passenger injuries occur because the passenger is thrown from the tractor.