Health, Safety and Wellbeing for Agriculture and Agribusiness
Induction, records, incident reporting and follow-through.
What this looks like in agriculture and agribusiness
The parts of health, safety and wellbeing that are specific to this sector, rather than general.
Safety in Fields and Processing Units
Chemicals, machinery and heat, across dispersed worksites.
What this coversHide
Safety in Fields and Processing Units
Chemicals, machinery and heat, across dispersed worksites.
What this coversHideAgricultural safety is dispersed by nature. Risk sits in chemical handling, machinery, transport and heat, and the supervisor at each worksite is the only control present when something happens.
- Chemical handling, storage and application training per worker
- PPE issued and replaced, recorded against the individual
- Machinery and implement safety briefing before use
- Heat exposure and hydration arrangements during peak season
- Transport safety for crews moving between sites
- First aid availability at each worksite
- Incident and near-miss reporting that works verbally
- Supervisor accountability for worksite conditions
Near-miss reporting has to be verbal and consequence-free to function in this workforce. A written form at a field worksite records nothing.
The general method — what health, safety and wellbeing covers, the questions it answers and what an engagement produces — is the same whatever the sector, and is set out on the workplace health, safety and wellbeing page. What is above is the part that differs for agriculture and agribusiness.
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Where to start
Most engagements begin with a review of how this runs in your business today, then a written process and the sequence to implement it.
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