GENERAL GUIDE FOR MANAGING THE RISKS OF MACHINERY IN RURAL WORKPLACES This Guide provides information on how to manage the risks of machinery, vehicles and other types of plant used in rural workplaces. It is supported by the . This Guide should also be used in conjunction with the . Who should use this Guide? This Guide applies to all rural workplaces where machinery and other types of plant are used. Some of the principles outlined in this Guide may also apply to workplaces other than rural workplaces. For example, this Guide can be used for municipal services or green keeping. Plant commonly used at a rural workplace includes: machinery e.g. planters, harvesters, balers, cultivators, pickers, grain augers, and elevators powered mobile plant e.g. tractors, front-end loaders (FELs), harvesters and mowers on-farm vehicles e.g. quad bikes, motor bikes, farm utes and modified vehicles (such as bull catchers) tools and equipment powered by an energy source or manually operated e.g. manually or mechanically powered grain augers, power take-offs or power input connections, slashers, brush cutters, chainsaws, posthole diggers, baling presses, post drivers and workshop tools like drills and grinders or welding plant, irrigation equipment, pumps, generators, silos and hoppers, and a component or anything fitted or connected to the item of plant e.g. a tractor-mounted post-driver. What is a rural workplace? A rural workplace is a place where primary production and land management is carried out including: cultivating and harvesting agricultural crops or products, whether grown for food or not rearing and managing livestock shearing, skirting, classing, scouring, sorting or pressing of wool aquaculture feral animal and weed control horticulture or amenity horticulture, and clearing, fencing, trenching, establishing farm infrastructure, draining or otherwise preparing land for a purpose identified above. It is a workplace even when work is not being actively carried out. People who live at the rural workplace including children and other family members and visitors who might be around plant are owed a duty of care by the person who conducts the business or undertaking. Who has work health and safety duties under the law? Everyone in a rural workplace has a work health and safety duty. The main duties are set out in Table 1.
GENERAL GUIDE FOR MANAGING THE RISKS OF MACHINERY IN RURAL WORKPLACES This Guide provides information on how to manage the risks of machinery, vehicles and other types of plant used in rural workplaces. It is supported by the . This Guide should also be used in conjunction with the . Who should use this Guide? This Guide applies to all rural workplaces where machinery and other types of plant are used. Some of the principles outlined in this Guide may also apply to workplaces other than rural workplaces. For example, this Guide can be used for municipal services or green keeping. Plant commonly used at a rural workplace includes: machinery e.g. planters, harvesters, balers, cultivators, pickers, grain augers, and elevators powered mobile plant e.g. tractors, front-end loaders (FELs), harvesters and mowers on-farm vehicles e.g. quad bikes, motor bikes, farm utes and modified vehicles (such as bull catchers) tools and equipment powered by an energy source or manually operated e.g. manually or mechanically powered grain augers, power take-offs or power input connections, slashers, brush cutters, chainsaws, posthole diggers, baling presses, post drivers and workshop tools like drills and grinders or welding plant, irrigation equipment, pumps, generators, silos and hoppers, and a component or anything fitted or connected to the item of plant e.g. a tractor-mounted post-driver. What is a rural workplace? A rural workplace is a place where primary production and land management is carried out including: cultivating and harvesting agricultural crops or products, whether grown for food or not rearing and managing livestock shearing, skirting, classing, scouring, sorting or pressing of wool aquaculture feral animal and weed control horticulture or amenity horticulture, and clearing, fencing, trenching, establishing farm infrastructure, draining or otherwise preparing land for a purpose identified above. It is a workplace even when work is not being actively carried out. People who live at the rural workplace including children and other family members and visitors who might be around plant are owed a duty of care by the person who conducts the business or undertaking. Who has work health and safety duties under the law? Everyone in a rural workplace has a work health and safety duty. The main duties are set out in Table 1.