Primary Industry Health and Safety Partnership Program
| Project start date: | 01 April 2014 |
| Project end date: | 15 August 2016 |
| Publication date: | 15 August 2016 |
| Project status: | Completed |
| Livestock species: | Sheep, Goat, Lamb, Grassfed cattle, Grainfed cattle |
Summary
The Primary Industries Health and Safety Partnership (previously known as the Collaborative Partnership for Farm and Fishing Health and Safety) was originally established in 2001. Previous program plans from 2002–2007 and 2008-2012 have expired, and a new five year plan for the Primary Industries Health and Safety Partnership for 2013–2017 has been developed (attached in the Annexure).
Partners in the Primary Industries Health and Safety Partnership who will fund research include: Rural Industries R&D Corporation (RIRDC), Grains R&D Corporation (GRDC), Fisheries R&D Corporation (FRDC), Sugar Research Australia (SRA), Cotton R&D Corporation (CRDC), Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) and Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC).
The Primary Industries Health and Safety Partnership is committed to achieving significant benefits to industry within available partnership resources through the implementation of targeted and high-impact RD&E projects.
The program goal is for healthy, safe and productive working lives in the primary industries through investment in research, development and extension to drive sustainable improvements to work health and safety outcomes.
The Primary Industry Health and Safety Partnership Program (PIHSP) is about improving identification of work health and safety (WHS) risks in Australia's primary industries — agriculture, fisheries and forestry. Although there have been significant improvements of WHS, the primary industries collectively recorded the highest fatality rates of any industry in 2010–2011 with 17.64 deaths per 100,000 workers.
MLA contributed in the 2013-2017 period supporting the PIHSP to undertake research to understand factors that can influence WHS, and the interactions between them. From this, effective approaches to overcoming the barriers to change that impede the adoption of effective risk management were identified. This informed the development and extension program in support of targeted approaches to deliver change. Insights from previous and new research allowed the Development & Extension activities to focus on known issues and stimulate change through the translation of research outcomes and the extension of solutions for maximum adoption.
