A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR NEW ZEALAND 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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WHAT TO EXPECT
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
