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, eg 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)