Thread: 4wd to Forbes Hut - Clarence River

No.. it has to become a workplace before it is subject to health & safety regulation.

If the farm is not deriving "genuine income" from the receipt of compensation for use and compensation for damage, then it is unlikely to be considered a workplace for the recipe of minor funds to go towards costs.

If however the nature of the business is to generate genuine income from recreational use, that may become an issue.

But either way liability will be a long bow for a simple fee to gain access for self authored recreational purposes.

A property down these ways charged a 4wd group to use his tracks long story short 1 fell of track he finds himself being prosecuted over it

A farm is a workplace from the time u drive in the gate till the time u leave.

Wrong..

Do u run a farm and deal with health and safety everyday? Or a lawyer dealing with health and safety

Originally Posted by Sidney

Wrong..

If I'm wrong explain how

A workplace under current legislation is where normal work for said business is carried out, at that time. In farming that would occur where farming activities are happening, eg moving stock, cultivation etc.

But it is limited to the immediate locale, ie the paddock in question not the next door paddock.

If you are an employee, driving your ute doing stock checks, it moves with you.

Been both chap

On any given day I could go through every block with stock or tractor so would that not make the whole place a work place certen times of the year ie lambing we have stock in every block

And the second someone pays a fee it becomes an active work place not a recreation event

Having stock in a paddock doesn't make it a workplace, I clearing indicated the working with stock requirement..

Tractors have to be operating.

Keep saying the same thing chap, you are simply wrong

What ever mate do u homework

Love getting educated on the law by farmboys... makes those years of study seem wasteful...

Ain't no farm boy mate and the fact u said use to b states that u are no longer up with the times regs have changed 3 times in last 2 years

Always hear this from the lawyers! "Year sure you will win"!
Its not there money there putting in the game!
Come back with some cases law on the subject and we might have the answer. Till then health and saftey have you the farmer by the balls.