A practical guide for growers

The Horticulture Safety Handbook

What works on a single block breaks down across multiple properties. This handbook is a practical framework for managing risk, contractors, agrichemicals, and compliance consistently as your operation grows.

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4 key takeaways from the guide

Overlapping duties

Understand your legal obligations when contractors, labour hire crews, and transporters all work the same property on the same day.

4 step hazard process

A four-step process for identifying, assessing, controlling, and reviewing hazards consistently across every block, shed, and packhouse.

A safer seasonal workforce

How to induct, assess, and train workers when a winter team of ten becomes a harvest crew of a hundred, many on their first day

Records that pass the audit

Keep spray records, training records, and incident investigations current and retrievable, ready for the regulator and auditor