Farm safety

  • High drowning risks on farms

    Farming families can take simple steps to keep kids safe and actively supervise them around water, authorities say.

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  • Farm safety starts at school

    Timboon P-12 School students have joined in farm safety and wellbeing sessions to prepare them for a successful future in agriculture.

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  • Make farms safer for families

    Kidsafe Victoria is urging parents and carers on farms to take urgent action and set up safe play areas, in a bid to reduce childhood injuries and deaths.

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  • Research on child farm injuries

    Rates of child farm-related injury have remained constant over the past 20 years, despite ongoing efforts to reduce them.

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  • New regulations create fresh safety concerns

    Colac district farmers say freshly implemented quad bike safety regulations could expose workers to new dangers in coming years.

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  • Farm injury impacts on whole family

    October 1, 2020 is a day Swan Marsh’s Mulheron family won’t easily forget.

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  • Drone switch pays off on farm

    Beeac farmers Bill and Tom Alston feature in a new WorkSafe farm safety campaign.

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  • Rural news in brief

    The VFF state leadership is visiting Colac and district this week, meanwhile mixed conditions are impacting dairy, new fatality statistics put a focus on farm vehicles, and new inspectors have started work in the region.

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