Farm safety-Time to act.

Issues Addressed: Agriculture is recognised as a highly dangerous sector worldwide; hence, the use of evidence-based solutions to address injury-related incidents is critical to prevention. The main of this article was to determine the potential for prevention by use of existing controls based on deaths data from 2001-2016.

Methods: This study assesses data from the National Coroner's Information System for the period 2001-2016 in regard to unintentional farm injury deaths in Australia (n = 1271).

Agricultural health and safety performance in Australia.

This study aimed to determine the proportion of Australian farming enterprises with systems and processes that meet current regulatory and industry standards for health and safety. Data from 683 farming enterprises were drawn from a nationally stratified random sample representing seven commodity sectors: beef cattle, cotton, dairy, horticulture, grain growing, sheep, and sugar cane. Results indicated low levels of implementation for farm health and safety plans as well as induction for new workers and contractors.

Health career promotion in the New England area of New South Wales: a program to support high school career advisers.

Objective: To facilitate the area's high school careers advisers' ability to effectively promote health careers to students.

Design: Three cross sectional evaluation surveys at the end of each one-day workshop.

Setting: Conference rooms in three regional centres (Armidale, Moree and Tamworth, New South Wales).