Cattle Property WHS Manual

This is the cattle property edition of the WHS Manual. It has the same chapters as the general WHS Manual, written for beef grazing and breeding properties, so you only need one of the two. It names the plant, licences, chemicals, diseases, laws and approved codes that cattle work involves, and points to the SWMS, checklists, procedures and registers in our range that fit a cattle property. The cover page is ready for your business name and logo. Part A is the management system, in 23 numbered chapters. Part B holds the full text of 84 policies and procedures (41 that apply to every business and 43 for cattle property work), each on its own pages in the same editable file, so you can edit, issue and sign off each one without buying it separately.

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What Is Included In Our Cattle Property WHS Manual?

• WHS policy statement with an approval sign-off
• Where a SWMS is required by law on a cattle property, and the written safe work procedures for every other high risk farm task
• Duties and roles for owners, managers, station hands, contractors and visitors
• Stockyards, bulls, mustering by horse, bike, vehicle and helicopter, and loading cattle
• Quad bikes, side-by-side vehicles, tractors, PTO shafts, balers and the licence rules for each
• Agricultural and veterinary chemicals, who may spray, tick treatments, HGP records and fuel storage quantities
• Q fever, Hendra virus, leptospirosis and other diseases caught from animals, and when they are notifiable
• Remote and lone work, call-in systems, heat, fatigue, snakes and ticks, bushfire and flood
• Bores, tanks, dams, windmills, confined spaces and fencing, clearing and burn-offs
• Overhead power line exclusion zones and electrical safety for pumps and equipment
• Firearms, humane destruction and environmental and biosecurity rules
• A list of 45 cattle property SWMS, procedures, checklists and registers, and when to use each
• Part B: the full text of 84 policies and procedures, from risk, hazard and incident management to manual handling, hazardous substances, emergencies and return to work, plus 43 for cattle property work

Legislation and Codes of Practice Referenced

• Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld): primary duty of care (s 19), persons who manage or control a workplace (s 20), approved codes (ss 26A, 274 and 275), notifiable incidents (ss 35 to 39), consultation and cooperation (ss 46 to 49), the right to cease unsafe work (ss 84 to 86), no levy on workers (s 273) and the dictionary (sch 5)
• Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld): the safe electrical equipment duty (s 30), electrical codes of practice (ss 44 and 45) and electrical work licences (s 55)
• Agricultural Chemicals Distribution Control Act 1966 (Qld): aerial distribution of agricultural chemicals, ground distribution of herbicides and who may do them (s 39)
• Chemical Usage (Agricultural and Veterinary) Control Act 1988 (Qld): containers and labels (s 7), controlled chemicals (s 8), disposal of chemicals and packages (ss 10 and 11B), use as the label states (ss 12 and 13)
• Biosecurity Act 2014 (Qld): the general biosecurity obligation and reporting of notifiable diseases and pests
• Animal Care and Protection Act 2001 (Qld): the care and humane destruction of animals
• Weapons Act 1990 (Qld): firearm licences, storage and use
• Medicines and Poisons Act 2019 (Qld): supply, storage and handling of scheduled medicines and poisons, including veterinary products
• Fire Services Act 1990 (Qld): permits to light a fire
• Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld): the general environmental duty (s 319)
• Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld): claims, rehabilitation and return to work
• Heavy Vehicle National Law Act 2012 (Qld), which applies the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Queensland): the chain of responsibility (ss 26A to 26H) and fatigue
• Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 (Qld): driving under the influence of liquor or a drug (s 79)
• Tobacco and Other Smoking Products Act 1998 (Qld) and Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld): smoke-free places and discrimination against workers with an impairment
• Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld): managing risks (ss 32 to 38), information, training and instruction (s 39), facilities, first aid, emergency plans and PPE (ss 40 to 47), remote or isolated work (s 48), airborne contaminants (ss 49 and 50), ignition sources and flammables (ss 52 and 53), noise (ss 56 to 58), hazardous manual tasks (s 60), confined spaces (ss 62 to 77), falls (ss 78 to 80), high risk work licences (ss 81 to 85 and sch 3), plant (Regulation chapter 5, including ss 203 to 216 and the quad bike rules in ss 226A to 226C), construction work (Regulation chapter 6, including ss 289 to 291, 299 and 304 to 306), hazardous chemicals (Regulation chapter 7), asbestos (Regulation chapter 8), crystalline silica (Regulation chapter 8A), notifiable serious illnesses (s 699) and the dictionary (sch 19)
• Work Health and Safety (Codes of Practice) Notice 2022 (Qld): the list of approved codes of practice
• Electrical Safety Regulation 2026 (Qld): overhead electric lines (ss 10 to 13 and sch 2), rural industry work (ss 125 and 141) and notifying serious electrical incidents (s 292)
• Chemical Usage (Agricultural and Veterinary) Control Regulation 2017 (Qld): qualifications and run-off rules for tebuthiuron (ss 21 and 31), records of chemical use (ss 33B to 33E) and HGP earmarking and records (ss 34 and 35)
• Medicines and Poisons (Poisons and Prohibited Substances) Regulation 2021 (Qld)
• Weapons Regulation 2016 (Qld)
• Transport Operations (Road Use Management – Driver Licensing) Regulation 2021 (Qld): licence classes for vehicles and trucks
• Transport Operations (Road Use Management—Road Rules) Regulation 2009 (Qld)
• 24 Queensland approved codes of practice, named in full in the manual

What You Get

• An editable Microsoft Word manual (551 pages), A4 portrait, with a cover page ready for your business name and logo, a contents list, Part A (23 numbered chapters) and Part B (84 policies and procedures)
• Business details and document control typed once and filled in on every page, plus a space for your logo
• A WHS policy statement with an approval sign-off
• Roles, procedures, a risk matrix, record-keeping periods, definitions and references
• Part B: the full text of 84 policies and procedures, each starting on a new page
• Links by name to the matching SWMS, forms and registers in our range

Review it and adjust it to suit your business, your sites and the way your team works, and talk it through with your workers. If you have any trouble downloading this template, you can contact us at any time. Please make sure you read our Disclaimer before downloading.