Sheep & Beef Samples
This is the base template of the sheep and beef manual. If you have additional policies of your own then they are easily incorporated into your manual.
Contents Overview
Introduction
Achievement Records
Farm history
Farm management structure
Farm support services
Mission statement and farm goals
Preferred contractors
Reviewing the Farm Manual
Staff roll call​
Section 1
Section 1
Administration and Planning
Accounting/bill payments
Accounting/data entry
Accounting/invoicing
Adverse events
Benchmarking and monitoring
Biodiversity and environmental planning
Compliance reports
Computer maintenance
Dissemination of information
Electricity supply
Expiry dates
Farm environmental plans
Farm maps
Financial analysis
Green House Gas reports
Health and safety/training programme
Insurance
Personal, customer and user numbers
Planning
Project proposal
Purchasing new equipment
Regular tasks checklist
Risk management
Serial numbers
Yearly calendar
Section 2
Animal
Animal status declaration forms
Animal health
Animal welfare
Beef
Biosecurity
Bloat
Dead stock disposal
Debudding
Dogs
Drenching programme
Livestock
Stock transportation
Section 1
Section 3
Human Resources
ACC – return to the workplace
Accident reporting
Accommodation
Children in the workplace
Dress standards
Drugs/alcohol in the workplace
Emergency situations/response information
Emergency situations
Equality/anti-bias (including sexual harassment)
Evacuation drills
Farm advisors
Hazards
Health and safety
Health and safety responsibilities
Health and safety definitions
Human resources management
Housing Record
Housing responsibilities
Induction
Pandemic Plan
Performance management
Recruiting staff
Reporting lines and communication
Roster
Smoking and vapping
Training/Education
Visitors to the farm
Working alone
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Section 1
Section 4
Machinery
Machinery operation
Maintenance schedules
Motorbike helmets
Operation of tools and plant
Use of agricultural vehicles on public roads
Vehicle log
Vehicle register
Use of agriculture vehicle on public roads
Section 5
Operations
Chemical spillage
Environmental and sustainable farming
Feed monitoring
Feeding out
Fertiliser
Fuel and oil storage and use
Intensive livestock grazing
Irrigation
Manual handling
Regrassing
Security
Shearing
Stock water
Supplement production and use
Use of RT and cellphone
Waste management
Weed and pest control
Workshops & storage areas