Main Content
https://salem.njaes.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Ag-Safety-Flyer-2025.pdf
TRACTORS AND VEHICLES
- Watch out for other people and keep your speed down.
- Practice the SAFE STOP procedure: reverse park, handbrake on, controls in neutral, lower attachments, engine off and remove keys.
- All tractor and machinery drivers should be competent.
LIVESTOCK
- Good handling facilities are essential when handling cattle and other livestock.
- All bulls are potentially dangerous. Always, fit a ring and chain to a stock bull when it is out in the field and exercise great caution if you need to enter the field with the bull.
- Never turn your back on the cow at calving time, always use a calving gate, never get in between the cow and her calf and always have an escape route.
QUAD BIKES
- Always follow safety procedures and use protective equipment.
CHILDREN
- Children should not be allowed unsupervised access to the farmyard.
- Keep children away from dangerous areas (slurry pits, silage pits, grain /chemical stores, working machinery and high risk areas).
- A child under 7 years of age should not be carried inside the cab of a tractor.