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Health & Safety Guidance for Agriculture

Below is a comprehensive list of guidance from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for agricultural businesses. Click on the individual links to download the relevant guidance.

General

Statement of evidence: Respiratory hazards of poultry dust

Controlling exposure to poultry dust

Is poultry dust making you ill?

BSE – Occupational guidance

Farmwise – Your essential guide to health and safety in agriculture

Farmwise – Welsh version

What a good farm looks like

Working safely near overhead electricity power lines

Health and safety guide for gamekeepers

Children

Preventing accidents to children on farms

Stay safe on the farm

Lifting and Handling

Safe working with bales in agriculture

Livestock

Handling and housing cattle

Sheep dipping – Advice for farmers and others involved in dipping sheep

Cattle and public access in England and Wales

Cattle and public access in Scotland

Pesticides

Guidance on storing pesticides for farmers and other professional users

Gassing of rabbits and vertebrate pests

Vehicles

Using tractors safely: A step-by-step guide

Carrying passengers on farm trailers

Control back-pain risks from whole-body vibration

Operator seat restraints for mobile work equipment in agriculture and forestry

Safe use of all terrain-vehicles (ATVs) in agriculture and forestry

Machinery

Working safely with agricultural machinery

Health hazards from whole-body vibration caused by mobile agricultural machinery

Power take-offs and power take-off drive shafts

Safe use of agricultural mowers

Safe use of big round balers

Safe use of combine harvesters

Safe use of forage harvesters

Safe use of potato harvesters

Safe use of rotary flail hedge cutters

Hazardous Substances

Grain dust in non agricultural workplaces

Veterinary medicines: Safe use by farmers and other animal handlers

Preventing access to effluent storage and similar areas on farms

Working at Height

Inspecting fall arrest equipment made from webbing or rope

Miscellaneous

Health and safety on floating fish farm installations

Personal buoyancy equipment on inland and inshore waters

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