New safety guide for farms

Mal Gill
October 14 2017 - 7:00am
Dandaragan farmer and Hopgood Ganmin law graduate Emma Scotney (left), SafeFarmWA chairman Mike Norton and chief executive officer Maree Gooch, acting WorkSafe Commissioner Simon Ridge and Agricultural MLC, parliamentary secretary to the Regional Development Agriculture and Food Minister and Jennacubbine farmer Darren West at the launch of SafeFarmWA, its new website and its farm safety manual.
Dandaragan farmer and Hopgood Ganmin law graduate Emma Scotney (left), SafeFarmWA chairman Mike Norton and chief executive officer Maree Gooch, acting WorkSafe Commissioner Simon Ridge and Agricultural MLC, parliamentary secretary to the Regional Development Agriculture and Food Minister and Jennacubbine farmer Darren West at the launch of SafeFarmWA, its new website and its farm safety manual.

GROSS negligence resulting in an on-farm death or serious injury could incur massively increased financial penalties and double existing jail terms within two years, the farm sector was warned last week.

Mal Gill

Mal Gill

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Wool and dairy writer for Farm Weekly.

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