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Grain Handling, Silo and Confined Space Safety Awareness

Name: Grain Handling, Silo and Confined Space Safety Awareness
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A practical, non-accredited introduction to the hazards that make grain storage one of the deadliest jobs on a farm. Learn why flowing grain engulfs people in seconds, why augers are a leading cause of serious farm injury, how falls and toxic or oxygen-depleted atmospheres in sealed and fumigated silos kill, and, above all, why a silo, field bin or tank is a confined space you recognise and stay out of, not one you climb into. This course builds do-not-enter awareness; it does not qualify you to enter a confined space.

Also relevant for: Farm and Rural

About 50 minutes100% online, self-pacedSix months of access

What You Will Learn

Recognise the four hazards that kill and maim around grain storage: engulfment, auger entanglement, falls, and toxic or oxygen-depleted atmospheres
Explain why flowing and bridged grain behaves like quicksand and why a person caught in it cannot self-rescue
Describe safe practice around augers: guarding, an accessible stop, and isolating and locking out before clearing a blockage
Identify the atmospheric dangers of sealed and phosphine-fumigated silos and why you never enter until they are ventilated and tested clear
Treat every silo, field bin, tank and chaser bin as a confined space, apply the do-not-enter rule, the standby-person and rescue principles, and know that entry work is separate, accredited, permit-controlled work

Course Content

Final Assessment: 10 questions, 80% pass mark, retakes available

Who This Course Is For

Grain growers, farm owners, farm workers, harvest and silo-cart operators, contractors and family members who move, store, aerate or fumigate grain and anyone who has ever climbed a silo ladder or reached into a bin to break a blockage.

Written by Kam Askari, Managing Director of Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 Lead Auditor. MBA, Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety, MAICD. Checked against the sources listed below.

Sources and Legal References

Always rely on the current version on the regulator’s website.

Accreditation: This is a non-accredited awareness course only. It is not a nationally recognised qualification, not an RTO Statement of Attainment and not a high-risk work or confined space entry licence and it does not authorise you to enter a confined space, to work inside a silo, tank or bin or to fumigate grain. Confined space entry is competency-based work that requires a risk assessment, a written entry permit, atmospheric testing and trained entrants and standby personnel under the WHS/OHS confined spaces laws, obtained through a Registered Training Organisation and your employer's procedures, not this course. Grain fumigation with phosphine is a regulated activity governed by the product label and, in some states, licensing. This course teaches you to recognise the hazards and stay out; it does not replace that training, a licence or your workplace's documented procedures. If in doubt, do not enter: get the competent, authorised process.