This report provides guidance to assess design modification to enhance safety of manually stacked turf harvesters.

A number of risks were identified during a coronial enquiry into a fatality involving a manually stacked turf harvester. The findings and recommendations from the coroner to address these risks were taken up by Safework NSW and Turf Australia leading to the publication of a Safework NSW.

This document provides growers and organisations involved in machine maintenance and modification with practical advice on possible modification to manually stacked turf harvesters for improved safety. The guidance is sufficiently broad to apply to a number of different configurations and machine types.

The guidance in this document does not address all risks for all operations and includes recommendations for training, risk assessment and ongoing machine inspection.