40 Top Cattle Care-guide Tips

Cattle Care-guide Tips

The purpose of these guidelines is to help reduce the risk of injuries and fatalities by providing practical guidance on safe cattle handling.

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Cattle Care-guide Tips

39. Training Requirements

Handling cattle safely is a skill that comes with time and experience.

Skilled cattle handlers understand how cattle behave and react.

They know where to stand and how to move.

They work together and get cattle to do what they want – quietly, smoothly and safely.

People handling cattle must be well trained so they can:

• care for the cattle
• maintain animal welfare and production standards
• avoid being hurt.

Farm owners, managers and employers must ensure that anyone handling cattle has enough experience,

Or is trained and supervised so no-one is put at risk.

In general, farmers need to:

• do an induction for new employees – show them around the farm and tell them about hazards and safety procedures
• identify what skills, knowledge or competencies employees need to do each task
• have ways to train employees – for example, use external training providers or do on-farm instruction
• make sure people only do the work if they’re trained and/or properly supervised
• keep records of employee training and instruction, identifying which jobs each employee can and can’t do.

Cattle Care-guide Tips

40. Children

Children are at much greater risk compared to adults because they don’t have the skills.

And experience to understand risks or hazards.

Children will mainly learn safe animal handling practices through helping their parents

Or other competent adults.

You can control the amount of risk children face by supervising them at all times.

Very young children (i.e. under 5) are at great risk around cattle

And should not enter yards or paddocks unless with an adult. They must not do any ‘work activity’.

Cattle Care-guide Tips

41. Training For Health And Safety Representatives

The Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 gives employees the right to be involved in workplace health and safety matters.

One way to do this is by electing a health and safety representative.

This is someone employees can go to when they have any concerns

Or suggestions about health and safety in the workplace.

The representative will work with the employer in good faith to find a solution.

This representative can take two days paid leave each year to do approved health and safety training.