Health and safety promotion with farmers

These resources are for direct use by farmers and are useful for health workers providing health and injury prevention advice to farmers during client interactions or at promotional events.  

1. Child health and safety

•  Health Service/Clinic Poster
•  Personal Health Record insert
•  Child Safety On Rural Properties Checklist
•  Safe Play Areas on Farms – A Resource Kit (booklet  and pamphlet)
•  Childcare options for farming families factsheet
•  Link to other child farm safety resources (including primary and secondary schools resources)

2. Preventing Falls in Older farmers - falls prevention self- help tool
3. Managing the Pressures of Farming – stress management self-help tool
4. Rehabilitation of injured farmers – link to resources
5. Farm safety factsheet series

•  Workshop safety
•  Tractors  
•  Farm vehicles, motorbikes and ATVs
•  Noise injury
•  Child safety
•  Zoonoses
•  Asthma

Please note: These factsheets are included within the GP Toolkit

6. Practical guidelines for key farm safety hazards including:

•  Quad bike guide
•  Workshop safety
•  Machinery guarding
•  Other guidelines - see Farmer Resources

7. Comprehensive farm OHS management resources

These resources offer all farmers need to know about how to implement a robust OHS program on farm, in order to meet state legislated OHS regulations.  These include:

*  commodity specific hazard checklists, induction templates and training registers that can be modified to suit individual farms
*  a set of supporting resources on a range of farm safety topics (eg. quad bikes)
* can be downloaded free from Farmer Resources or on the  Farmsafe website at www.farmsafe.org.au
* can be ordered on request as a printed folder (cost involved).

Health workers, like farmers, can simply register by email, select the options and download the resources free of charge.