What are farm workplace policies?
Workplace policies define acceptable workplace behaviours, set out implications for not complying with the policies and often reinforce and clarify standard operating procedures. This topic is about developing policies for managing behaviours and incidents that might occur on dairy farms, where an incident is an occurrence or event resulting in physical or psychological injury, damage to property or something that nearly causes one of these events. Having well documented policies will contribute to your farm being a safer and more enjoyable workplace, where people want to work and stay. People leave farms if they don’t feel safe or comfortable and replacing them is costly. Documenting policies also helps ensure your farm complies with equal opportunity and health and safety legislation.
