Thread: Pest control

Originally Posted by Ronin007

I've been doing a fair bit of pest control for local lifestyle blocks and small farms, ever since I realised that I might need a fallback option when my job gets jab-mandated. Been doing ok so far, not enough to make it a full-time job, but decent enough to put some extra coin away.

Now though, I'm putting together a plan for a local authority that needs some goats cleaned out. Of course that means a lot more paperwork. The one thing I'm really struggling with is putting together a health and safety plan. I mean, I know how to keep myself safe, and not shoot anyone, but the council needs more than that.

Does anyone have a template I could use, or something I could plagiarise a wee bit?

Maybe I’m being a bit dumb but I’m presuming a health and safety plan would be similar to what we have for the farm. Part of my vet tech studies doing health and safety planning was very much the same as the farm.
I can go dig it out but ours is essentially a run down of all risks on the job, steps on how to prevent those risks, a booklet of risks found on the job and steps taken to remove those risks we must fill in, a register for injuries (some people like to have the slightest knock noted in the register to show its being utilised), basically all hazards and steps taken to reduce those hazards and training and licensing that has been taken for handling of substances, firearms etc. dated if possible too. Ours has a big checklist of tasks and training we have undertaken and dates of when the certifications were done. Contact lists for next of kin, local doctors/ medical Centers etc and a well stocked first aid kit and “where is this located”. Hope this helps. I could be completely off the mark for what your looking for but ours is a folder full of all of the above.