Machinery guarding and stockyard handling videos

This week is National Farm Safety Week (18–22 July 2016), a time to raise awareness of farm safety issues across Australia and highlight some of the practical steps farmers can take to improve worker health and safety on farms.

Agriculture can be a rewarding industry to work in, but it can also be dangerous. 

In 2013–14, 36 workers were killed and 2565 workers were compensated for serious injuries and diseases in the agriculture industry. While these rates have been declining, improvements can still be made to reduce the number of deaths and injuries on farms.

Working with animals, manual handling and falls from height are the leading causes of injury to farm workers, while single-vehicle incidents are the leading cause of farm worker deaths.

To assist people working on farms, Safe Work Australia has partnered with the National Farmers’ Federation to produce two short farm safety videos on machinery guarding and stockyard handling.

The videos outline four simple steps to manage risks when working with machinery and around the stockyard.

The videos can be viewed on the Safe Work Australia YouTube channel:

• Stockyard Handling
• Machinery Guarding