Safety First: Case Study

Trade Farm Machinery

With more than 5,000 visitors a week, safety is paramount to agri-tourism business The Farm

When Johno Hunter was growing up on a farm in New South Wales he was driving tractors from nine years of age. It was tough but fun work for a kid, swinging the tractor round the rows of grapevines, spraying the vineyard, and helping out his dad. Sometimes he’d need to jump off the tractor to move the drip irrigation or open gates, and from that young age Hunter was taught the golden rule by his dad: turn the damn tractor off before you jump down…