Resources for teachers & health workers
Farmers have a higher risk of death than the general Australian population, due to injury, cardiovascular disease, some cancers and suicide. They are also prone to other unique injuries and conditions associated with life and work in agriculture.
A number of research reports on farmers health and injury prevention relevant to teachers and health workers , are available on this website under the “Projects and Reports” tab. The following resources provide practical teaching and learning resources for primary and high school teachers and health professionals.
Teaching and learning resources for teachers
The following resources provide primary and secondary teachers information for teaching farm health and safety in the classroom:
- RIPPER II: Growing Kids on Farms – An education resource for primary schools
- Future Farmers: A rural health & safety resource for high school students
Teaching and learning resources for health workers
The following resources provide information on farm health and injury to:
- assist health workers in their everyday interactions with farmers
support the development of local health programs inclusive of farmers health and safety needs
Click on the following resource or page links:
- Farm Health and Safety Toolkit for Rural General Practices
- Farmer Health Poster
- Farm Injury Prevention Poster
- Farm Health and Injury Chartbook Series
- Community programs to improve cardiovascular health and cancer prevention: A preliminary review of programs in rural Australia
- GP Toolkit – Farm Health And Safety Toolkit For Rural General Practices
- Falls prevention in older farmers
- The Older Farmers Program – Workshops for great ideas (Contact centre for further details)
- Farm noise and hearing loss
Farm health safety promotion
Health and safety promotion with farmers
These resources are for direct use by farmers and are useful for health workers providing health and injury prevention advice to farmers during client interactions or at promotional events.
1. Child health and safety
- Health Service/Clinic Poster
- Personal Health Record insert
- Child Safety On Rural Properties Checklist
- Safe Play Areas on Farms – A Resource Kit (booklet and pamphlet)
- Childcare options for farming families factsheet
- Link to other child farm safety resources (including primary and secondary schools resources)
2. Preventing Falls in Older farmers – falls prevention self- help tool
3. Managing the Pressures of Farming – stress management self-help tool
4. Rehabilitation of injured farmers – link to resources
5. Farm safety factsheet series
- Workshop safety
- Tractors
- Farm vehicles, motorbikes and ATVs
- Noise injury
- Child safety
- Zoonoses
- Asthma
6. Practical guidelines for key farm safety hazards including:
- Quad bike guide
- Workshop safety
- Machinery guarding
- Other guidelines – see ‘Resources for Farmers’ section
7. Comprehensive farm OHS management resources
These resources offer all farmers need to know about how to implement a robust OHS program on farm, in order to meet state legislated OHS regulations. These include:
- WHS policy and plan, commodity specific hazard checklists, induction templates and training registers that can be modified to suit individual farms
- A set of supporting resources on a range of farm safety topics (eg. quad bikes)
- These can be downloaded free from ‘Resources for Farmers’ webpage.