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Keeping safe on farms

How to keep workers, contractors, family, and visitors safe on your farm

Keeping safe on farms

Visitors and events on farms

Farmers must ensure that work areas on the farm are safe, and don’t pose a risk to the health and safety of any person, including visitors

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Managing health and safety: A guide for farmers

These guidelines will help reduce the risk of injuries and fatalities by providing practical guidance on farm health and safety

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Children and young people on farms

Farms are environments where families work, live and play, and as a workplace, they raise unique challenges that other businesses may not even consider

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Contractors on farms

This fact sheet provides advice and examples of how farmers and contractors can work together to keep everyone on farm healthy and safe.

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Preventing slips trips and falls on farms

General advice on how to manage slip, trip and fall hazards. It covers working at height, using ladders, and slips, trips and falls on flat ground

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