Rural and remote Victorian farmers report higher levels of community participation, connection and volunteering than urban communities. Connecting with others, helps reduce isolation and has been shown to improve mental health.
Harvesting Change is a resource to connect farmers to available services, teach self-care tips, and strategies for creating mentally healthy workplaces on farm.
Personal Mobile Phone usage on the farm is a major cause of concern for farmers and their employees. Use this template to establish a policy for your farm.
This guide has been developed to increase your awareness of some of the less obvious risks, known as psychosocial risks, that you and your staff face daily on your farm, and what your role is in mitigating those risks.
Each year many Victorians lose their lives in agricultural workplaces. Often these deaths are associated with working alone. This guide from WorkSafe Victoria will help you manage working alone on farms.
The Mental Health and Wellbeing of farmers and farm families has been an ongoing area of research and development for the Centre.
Following the Farm Family Business project funded by the Department of Family and Community Services, the resource “Managing the Pressures of Farming” was produced and continues to be distributed widely.
Farming can be very stressful at times. Extremely climatic events, market fluctuations, labor shortage and natural disaster can all contribute to stress. Social isolation and working long hours can make this hard to cope with. Use this guide to help you through these difficult times.
Sexual harassment is a workplace hazard as it can result in psychological and physical harm of the victim. Employees should feel safe coming to work, whether that be at an office space or on a farm, knowing that they can do their job without the threat of being harassed by a coworker or manager. Farmers should ensure all staff are aware that sexual harassment is against the law, and not tolerated in their workplaces.
Rural Aid provide economic and empathic assistance to rural communities impacted by natural disaster by partnering with key stakeholders to deliver meaningful outcomes.
How to identify, manage, reduce or eliminate the risks of Q fever transmission in high-risk jobs, workplaces and industries.