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, for example 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).