It’s your responsibility to make sure you don’t start a fire

• On hot, dry days, exercise extreme caution before harvesting, grinding, welding, slashing or mowing
• Avoid driving vehicles and motorbikes through dry grass or crop – the risk from the hot exhaust system is high. Driving vehicles with catalytic converters through dry grass and crops is particularly hazardous
• Take regular breaks
• Make it part of your routine to check for straw or grass build-up, and hot bearings
• Check machinery to ensure that spark arrestors are maintained.

Covers the following farm equipment:

• Harvesters
• Chainsaws, mowers and other equipment