Chain of Responsibility: Legal requirements for heavy vehicles.
Chemcert Accreditation: Accreditation for the purchase and use of certain chemicals.
Emergency Plans: Maps with exit paths and other information.
Evacuation Points: Where to go if there is an evacuation.
Fatigue Management Policy: Policy that outlines the rules for making sure people are not too tired to work safely.
Fitness for Work programs: Rules and systems the company has in place to ensure workers are fit for work.
Fatigue Management Policy: Policy that outlines the rules for making sure people are not too tired to work safely.
Grassland Fire Danger Index: The Grassland Fire Danger Index uses air temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed to determine the potential for a grassland fire to spread and be controlled once started in fully cured conditions. The index is open ended. Generally a GFDI of 35 is seen as an upper limit to safely harvest broadacre crops in Australia.
PPE: Personal Protective Equipment.
Regulator Notification: The law requires that some incidents are reported to regulators. Your workplace will have information about these requirements.
Relevant Authorised Person: A person who has both the authority and knowledge to authorise activities. This may be a farm manager; supervisor; or an employee at a site you are delivering to.
Risk assessment: A method of identifying the risks involved in performing a task.
Trained, Authorised and Instructed: You must not operate plant and equipment unless you are trained, authorised and instructed to do so.
- Trained means the person has been officially taught all of the necessary skills and has all of the relevant qualifications to do the job.
- Authorised means the person has been given official permission or approval, by an appropriate workplace employee, to do the job.
- Instructed means the person has been given a direction or command, by an appropriate workplace employee, to do the job.
WHS: Work Health and Safety.