• Farm safety checklist

This checklist has been developed to provide information and assistance to employers, self-employed persons, persons having control of workplaces and employees working on farms.

General

• Farm Vehicle Pre-purchase Checklist - choosing the right vehicle, SafeWork New South Wales
  This checklist may assist you in selecting the safest vehicle for different jobs or conditions on your farm.

Tractor guides

• Using tractors safely, Health and Safety Executive, UK 01-2013
  This step-by-step guide provides information on staying safe while operating a tractor.
• Safe use of a tractor with attachments, a handbook for workplaces
  The guidance will assist farmers to review their current farm machinery to ensure that the tractor and attachment is compatible and appropriate for specific farm jobs.
• Safe tractor operation: Guide, Australian Centre for Agricultural Health and Safety, 2009
  This document provide practical guidelines for employers and workers to improve and ensure the safety of those who use tractors on farms, and those who are in the vicinity of areas where tractors are being used.

Safe movement of vehicles checklist

• Safe-movement of vehicle and mobile plant – self assessment tool
  This self-assessment tool will assist in reviewing the effectiveness and adequacy of your existing risk management approach for vehicle and mobile plant traffic movements at your workplace. It will also help generate ideas and opportunities to improve your practices.
• Guidelines: Safe use of tractors, WorkSafe New Zealand
  This guideline outlines potential hazards of using tractors on farms, and provides recommendations to eliminate, isolate and minimise those hazards.

• Managing risks of plant in the workplace: Code of practice Work Health and Safety Commission
  This code of practice provides practical guidance on how to manage health and safety risks associated with managing risks of plant in the workplace.
• Guarding grain augers: Guide
  This guide provides farmers with practical information to build and retrofit a guard to older grain augers, improving safety of those people handling grain and using grain augers.
• Get Grain Safe, WorkSafe New South Wales
  This checklist aims to minimise risks associated with the use of silos, augers, field bins, chaser bins and bulk handling equipment used on farms. Field bins are also referred to as transportable or portable silos.
• Isolation of plant/lockout tag-out: Checklist - WorkSafe
  Use this checklist as an aid to ensure safety or workers when the function or condition of plant is impaired

• Guide for managing the risks of machinery in rural workplaces – Safe Work Australia
  This guide provides information on how to manage the risks of machinery, vehicles and other types of plant used in rural workplaces.

• Labelling of workplace hazardous chemicals: Code of practice Work Health and Safety Commission
  This code of practice provides practical guidance on how to label hazardous chemicals that are being manufactured or imported for use, handling or storage in Australia.
• Managing risks of hazardous chemicals in the workplace: Code of practice Work Health and Safety Commission
  This code of practice provides practical guidance on how to manage health and safety risks associated with hazardous chemicals used in the workplace.
• Health monitoring duties for persons conducting a business or undertaking 
  This guide explains what your duties are for monitoring the health of your workers under the Work Health and Safety Act 2020 (the WHS Act) and Work Health and Safety (General) Regulations 2022.
• Agricultural chemical transport
  This webpage includes information on safe transport of agricultural chemicals.

• Hazardous manual tasks: Code of practice Work Health and Safety Commission
  This code of practice applies to all workplaces covered by the WHS Act where hazardous manual tasks are carried out and provides practical guidance to PCBUs on how to manage health and safety risks associated with musculoskeletal disorders arising from hazardous manual tasks in the workplace.

• Fall Prevention in the Agriculture Sector: Guide Work Health and Safety Commission, 2011
  This guide provides guidance for PCBUs and workers on the prevention of falls from heights.
• Managing the risk of falls at workplaces: Code of practice, Work Health and Safety Commission
  This code of practice provides practical guidance for those who design, construct, import, supply or install plant or structures, on how to eliminate, or if that is not possible, minimise the risk of falls from height in workplaces. This code of practice should be read in conjunction with the Managing the risk of falls at workplaces: Information sheet.

• Fatigue management for commercial vehicle drivers: Code of practice Work Health and Safety Commission
  The fatigue management for commercial vehicle drivers code of practice provides practical guidance to industry on occupational safety and health regulations for driving commercial vehicles. The regulations establish an operating standard for hours of work and rest and other requirements for the management of commercial vehicle operators fatigue.
• Commercial vehicle driver fatigue management training
  The purpose of this training is designed to help commercial vehicle drivers and managers/supervisors understand the impact of fatigue and the strategies to prevent fatigue from driving commercial vehicles. Both drivers and management have a role to play in making sure any risks associated with fatigue are minimised.

• Private power poles and lines, Building and Energy, Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety
  This guide explains the requirements for private power lines which transport electricity from the main switchboard and meter to your home or other buildings.
• Working safely around electricity - farming, Western Power
  This factsheet provides information about how to conduct your work to ensure you, your workmates and the community remain safe and the power remains on.

• First aid in the workplace: Code of practice, Work Health and Safety Commission
  This code of practice provides practical guidance on how to effectively provide first aid in the workplace. It includes information on first aid kits, procedures, facilities and training for first aiders.
• Don't get burnt out during harvest - plan for fire safety management
  This webpage includes basic steps to take to minimise the risk of fires during harvesting.

Confined spaces

• Confined spaces: Code of practice, Work Health and Safety Commission
  This code of practice provides practical guidance on how to manage health and safety risks associated with work carried out in a confined space.

• Managing noise and preventing hearing loss at work: Code of practice, Work Health and Safety Commission
  This code of practice provides practical guidance on how to manage health and safety risks associated with workplace noise.
• Noise exposure level ready reckoner
  This Ready reckoner may be used to work out the total LAeq,8h for combinations of noise levels and exposure duration for each work activity and the relative importance of each. Appendix 4 of the Code of practice Managing noise and preventing hearing loss at work contains a copy of this ready reckoner.

• Quad bikes in workplaces: Guide
  Quad bikes in workplaces guide outlines the legal requirements for those operating or in charge of workplaces where quad bikes are used and will assist riders, as well as managers, to ensure they are operated safely.
  This guide has been updated to reflect the changes in relation to the control of rollover and recognised need for helmets to be worn during quad bike use on private land. It should be read in conjunction with the operator manual for the specific quad bike used.
• Quad bikes, SafeWork South Australia
  This webpage includes injury and fatality statistic relating to quad bikes, how to select a safe quad bike and safety solutions.
• Reducing the risk when using side-by-side vehicles: Information sheet
  This information sheet provides information for workers and others who operate side-by-side vehicles.
• Quad bike safety – poster 
  This poster is for those operating or in charge of workplaces where quad bikes are used and will assist riders, as well as managers, to ensure they are operated safely. 

• A parent’s guide to Kidsafe farms, Kidsafe, Child Accident Prevention Foundation of Australia Western Australia, Department of Health
  This booklet covers safety around machinery and vehicles, hazardous chemicals, animals, quad bikes and many other farm hazards. It also features a Farm Safety Checklist to assist people to identify hazards on the farm and steps to reduce the risk of injuries from these Kids on farms – Tips to help kids safe on farms Kidsafe Child Accident Prevention Foundation of Australia, NRMA.
• Child Safety on Farms A practical guide, Farmsafe Australia
  Practical guidelines for employers and workers to improve and ensure the safety of children on Australian farms.

• Working safely in hot conditions
  This webpage provides guidance on working safely in hot conditions.
• Managing the work environment and facilities: Code of practice, Work Health and Safety Commission
  This code of practice provides practical guidance to PCBUs on how to effectively provide first aid in the workplace. It includes information on first aid kits, procedures, facilities and training for first aiders.

• Violence and aggression at work: Code of practice Work Health and Safety Commission
  The code of practice focuses on the general principles applied to the prevention and management of violence and aggression in the workplace. The intent of this code is to provide practical guidance for workplaces where people may be exposed to various forms of violence and aggression at work, including physical assault, sexual assault, verbal abuse, threats, intimidation and harassment, including sexual harassment.
• Workplace behaviour: Code of practice, Work Health and Safety Commission
  The code of practice focuses on the general principles applied to the prevention and management of inappropriate or unreasonable behaviour in the workplace. The intent of the Workplace behaviour Code of practice is to provide practical guidance for workplaces where people may be exposed to various forms of inappropriate or unreasonable workplace behaviour including bullying, harassment, violence and aggression, discrimination and misconduct.
• Psychosocial hazards in the workplace: Code of practice, Work Health and Safety Commission
  The Psychosocial hazards in the workplace code of practice focuses on the general principles applied to the prevention and management of psychosocial hazards in the workplace. The intent of this code is to provide practical guidance for workplaces where workers may be exposed to psychological and social hazards such as inappropriate behaviours, violence and aggression, and fatigue, stress and trauma, which can be harmful to their health.

• How to manage and control asbestos in the workplace: Code of practice, Work Health and Safety Commission
  This code of practice provides practical guidance on how to manage risks associated with asbestos, asbestos containing material (ACM) and asbestos-contaminated dust or debris (ACD) at the workplace and thereby minimise the incidence of asbestos-related diseases such as mesothelioma, asbestosis and lung cancer. This code of practice should be read in conjunction with the WHS transitional arrangements.
• Asbestos management: Checklist

• WorkSafe SmartMove
  WorkSafe SmartMove is a work health and safety (WHS) online educational program for senior high school students, young workers entering the workforce on work placement, work experience, or as school-based trainee/apprentice, and new workers entering the workforce for the first time. SmartMove is also designed for young people who are entering casual or part-time work on their free time and those who work on seasonal jobs.

• Safe storage and handling of dangerous goods on farms, Dangerous Goods Safety, Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety
  This web page includes information on recognising, storing, and handling and disposing of dangerous goods.
• Safe storage and handling of dangerous goods on farms: Pamphlet Dangerous Goods Safety, Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety
  This pamphlet contains information on recognising, storing, and handling and disposing of dangerous goods.
• Stay safe when storing diesel in polyethylene tanks, Dangerous Goods Safety, Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety
  This information sheet is intended for farmers and their workers, to highlight the importance of storing diesel safely and correctly.

• Working alone: Guidance note
  This guidance note provides guidance for employers and workers on the management of safety and health hazards and risks that may arise in relation to hazards that arise from working alone.

• Zoonoses on farms: Checklist
  This checklist has been developed to help minimise the risks to workers that may be exposed to zoonoses at work.
• Zoonoses on farms: Information sheet
  This information sheet provides an overview of zoonoses, control measures to reduce the risk of infection and the reporting to WorkSafe certain occupational zoonose.