This guideline provides guidance on requirements for safe working practices and the safe design and operation of machinery used in the kumara growing industry. It applies to all employers and employees who are involved in the kumara growing industry. It also applies to all designers, manufacturers and suppliers of plant to the industry.

Table of Contents

Foreword by the Minister for Enterprise and Commerce
Foreword from the Occupational Safety and Health Service
Foreword by the Northern Wairoa Vegetable and Potato Growers Association
Scope of This Document
A Summary of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992
Work-Related Visits to Private Land (Farms Or Other Property)
Recreational Visitors to Farms, Private Or Public Land
Employing Children and Young Persons
Health Monitoring
Solar Ultraviolet Radiation (Sunburn)
Protective Clothing and Equipment
Occupational Diseases
Occupational Disease from the use of Agrichemicals
Storage Facilities for Agrichemicals
Chemicals Commonly used in the Kumara Industry
Minimum Protective Clothing and Respirator Requirements for Agrichemicals
Meal Facilities for Day Workers Not Residing On the Farm
Agricultural Machinery used in the Kumara Growing Industry
Hydraulic Machinery
Power Take-Off Drive Shafts and Other Shafts
Transmission Machinery
Front-End Loaders (Adapted Forklift Arrangement)
Forklifts
Disc Harrows
Rotary (Flail) Mowers
Tractors in General
Passengers On Tractors and Training of Operators to Drive Tractors With Implements
Kumara Germination Process
Design of Planting Sleds
Tractors Towing Planting Sleds
Watering Trailers
Top Choppers (Tractor-Mounted, Pto-Driven Flail Mower)
Kumara Diggers (Chain Conveyors)
Kumara Harvesters
Scratching/Picking
Appendix: 'All Practicable Steps'