Farm OHS, SD13 & SIZA audit readiness
The OHS Act applies in full to farming operations — and export farms answer to SIZA and GlobalG.A.P on top. SHIELDagri is the agricultural add-on that keeps every statutory record in one place: the spray register with block-level re-entry intervals, cholinesterase surveillance for organophosphate handlers, machinery operator authorisations under the Driven Machinery Regulations, seasonal crew induction, and the Sectoral Determination 13 registers for on-farm housing, field sanitation and heat stress. One dashboard tells you which blocks are still under a re-entry restriction, who is barred from operating which machine, and how ready you are for the auditor.
Every agrochemical application is captured per land block — product, Act 36 registration number, dose, applicator and certificate, weather and PPE — and the label's restricted-entry interval computes a safe re-entry time automatically. Supervisors see at a glance which blocks are still under restriction, so crews never walk into a vineyard that was sprayed this morning.
Organophosphate and carbamate handlers go onto cholinesterase surveillance — baseline values, periodic tests, and an automatic removal-from-exposure trigger when results drop 30% against baseline. Seasonal crews are inducted before field work, and the coverage gap is visible until it's zero.
Tractors, PTO implements, ATVs and harvesters are driven machinery: only trained, authorised operators — verified 18 or older — may use them. Authorisations carry their expiry on the dashboard, and the qualifying training record keeps the authorisation honest.
On-farm housing under Sectoral Determination 13 with inspection history, field sanitation — water, toilets, shade and first aid — with servicing schedules, farm heat-stress plans with work/rest cycles and acclimatisation, a zoonosis register for rabies, brucellosis and anthrax with notifiable-disease reporting, and silo fumigation control where nothing enters until gas-free clearance is certified.
The audit pack runs one cross-register health check that mirrors what a social auditor samples first — crew induction coverage, expired authorisations, overdue housing inspections and sanitation servicing, heat-plan reviews, open zoonosis cases and silos under gas — and scores your readiness out of 100 so remediation starts before the audit, not during it.