Hortisafe is proud to offer Victorian Vegetable Growers their range of cost effective Occupational Health and Safety programs aimed specifically at Australian Horticultural farmers.

These programs provide you with the tools to assist you in meeting your legal obligation to provide effective OH&S training for all workers in your workplace.

The programs cover the following areas:

• Employee Induction to the farm workplace
  • Aimed at all farm workers entering your workplace, whether they are permanent employees, part time pickers or contractors.

Topics covered include:

• An introduction to OH&S on your farm
• Safety around Chemicals
• Sun Smart
• Noise and Hearing Safety issues
• Safety around Machinery and Tools
• Manual Handling Techniques
• Avoiding Slips, Trips & Falls

• Tractor Safety
  • This training program is aimed at covering OH&S issues relating for persons who may come into contact with tractors.

Topics covered include:

• An introduction to Tractor safety
• Safe Tractor Driving principles
• ROPS
• Tractor Maintenance

• Working safely with Tractor Following implements
  • This training program is aimed at covering OH&S issues relating for persons who may come into contact with tractor following implements.

Topics covered include:

• An introduction to Tractor Following implements safety
• Personal safety
• Safe Hitching techniques
• Safe Towing techniques
• Safe shutting down techniques

• Working safely with Power Take-Off Units
  • This training program is aimed at covering OH&S issues relating for persons who may come into contact with PTOs.

Topics covered include:

• An introduction to PTO safety
• PTO maintenance
• Safety consideration around PTOs

You have the choice of either purchasing these programs in hard form which includes Trainer instruction material, Trainee Handbooks, Workbooks and Assessment material or accessing the same training programs  “on-line” through your computer via the internet.