Planting
What you need to know
Safety hazards in planting work include
- Manual handling
- Cuts and lacerations
- Touching moving machinery
You'll find more about health hazards from using pesticides and chemicals in the health section of this site.
What you need to do
- Follow best practice during any manual handling
- Organise the delivery of plants to minimise manual handling, e.g. use mechanised unloading or teamwork at a prepared site
- Organise the layout of plants on the site to minimise carrying. Where practical use an all-terrain vehicle (ATV)
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