All posts tagged "safety"

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  News and Views

  Farm safety starter kit

  Former nurse and current south-east Queensland dairy farmer Sara Bucher has seen first-hand how accidents destroy lives. Now she’s determined to make...

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  News and Views

  Making farms safer

  Only 3 percent of Queenslanders work on farms, but that’s where 30 percent of workplace deaths occur – something a conference hosted...

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  Must See

  Investing in fishing safety

  The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) has just invested $350000 to help improve workplace health and safety in the commercial fishing...

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  196

  News and Views

  Everyday farm safety heroes the focus for Farm Safety Week

  Everyday farm safety heroes are the focus of the latest campaign from Safe Ag Systems to coincide with Farm Safety Week 2018.

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  Farm Management

  Is yours a no-harm farm?

  Next week (16-22 July 2018) is Farm Safety Week, a time to ensure you and your workers are protected from harm.

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  News and Views

  Bird bacteria linked to horse and human health

  Pregnancy losses in horses have been traced to a strain of bird chlamydia by researchers from the NSW Department of Primary Industries...

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  News and Views

  PFAS advice in place for Stony, Fishery and Wallis Creeks, Rutherford

  The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has released precautionary advice and is directly contacting residents after testing found per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)...

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  News and Views

  How to minimise agricultural vehicle road accidents?

  James Cook University researchers want the public to help them find ways to improve road safety by minimising accidents involving large agricultural...

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  News and Views

  ACCC moves to improve quad bike safety

  The ACCC has proposed major changes to improve the safety of quad bikes, including the introduction of a safety rating system, crush...

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  News and Views

  Quad bike scheme making farmers safer and saving lives

  Hundreds of quad bikes across Victoria have been fitted with rollover protection since the Victorian Government’s $6 million scheme came into effect.