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Duty 1 – Daily Checks
Duty 2 – Biosecurity
Duty 3 – Housing
Duty 4 – Livestock Handling
Duty 5 – Operate Vehicle
Duty 6 – Environmental
Duty 7 – Crop Storage
Duty 8 – Infrastructure
Duty 9 – Waste
Duty 10 – Health & Welfare
Duty 11 – Grazing
Duty 12 – Feed & Water
Duty 13 – Birth
Duty 14 – Breeding
Duty 15 – Crop Operations
Duty 16 – Monitoring
Duty 17 – Establishment
Duty 18 – Transport
Duty 19 – Crop Quality


🗣️🐄🐂🐖 General Farm Worker Duties
Core Duties
Duty 1: Daily Checks
Undertake “safe and effective” activities as instructed and actively record daily activity.
Duty 1 Details
Activities to cover:
  • Feeding & Checking Livestock (livestock checks)
  • Checking, Using, Cleaning Equipment & Vehicles
Duty 2: Biosecurity
Operate within strict bio-security practices.
Duty 2 Details
Activities to cover:
  • Implementing visitor policy. Maintain the cleanliness and biosecurity, of the working environment.
  • Carry out a biosecurity audit of your farm and Identify and record the following:
  • Areas where biosecurity is in operation (visitors, cleaning, disinfecting, appropriate animal treatments)
  • Example of good biosecurity practice.
  • 1 improvement action you could take
Duty 3: Housing / Bedding Up
Maintain a satisfactory environment for the animals
Duty 3 Details
Activities to cover:
  • An overview of livestock housing and how it allows natural behaviour (linked to the Five Needs).
  • Daily housing checks, including water availability.
  • Monitoring of environmental conditions (temperature, airflow, light, etc.).
  • Cleaning routines and manure management practices.
  • Bedding up – type of bedding and how it’s maintained.
  • Use of technology in housing (e.g. temperature control, ventilation systems, fans).
Duty 4: Restraining Handling Transport Livestock
Restrain and handle animals in a safe and appropriate manner.
Duty 4 Details
Activities to cover:
  • RESTRAINING and handling LIVESTOCK in a safe and appropriate manner.
  • MOVING and handling LIVESTOCK in a safe and appropriate manner
  • RECORDS involved with either or both of these activities. Movement or vaccination records for example. This can be a separate entry or included on the above entries
  • PLANNING COMMUNICATING AND TEAMWORK Explain how these tasks were planned, how everyone would work as a team and how this was communicated to those in the team
Duty 5: Operate a Vehicle
Operate agricultural vehicles relevant to the business safely, legally and in line with current legislation.
Duty 5 Details
Activities to cover:
  • Prestart Checks
  • Maintenance Tasks
  • Attachments & Other Equipment
  • PTO Operation
  • Rules and training to Legally Operate a farm vehicle
  • Prepare and operate other machinery and equipment for safe and effective use
Duty 6: Environmental Management
Recognise environmental risk and carry out operations to minimise environmental impact.
Duty 6 Details
Activities to cover:
  • How activities are taken to avoid pollution of soil, air and water courses.
  • Check and maintain field boundaries
  • Carry out an audit of your farm and Identify and record the following:
  • 3 risks to soil, air, or water
  • 2 examples of good environmental practice.
  • 1 improvement action you could take
Duty 7: Crop / Forage Storage
Prepare and maintain crop/forage storage as instructed. Including monitoring pests and vermin in crop or bulk bins and temperature monitoring.
Duty 7 Details
Activities to cover:
  • CROP STORAGE & MONITORING – Prepare/maintain crop/forage storage (pest control, temperature monitoring).
  • CROPS, GRASS & FORAGE – Monitoring any / all of these for growth, health and sward / crop maintenance
  • CROPS, GRASS & FORAGE – Selecting for grazing / forage production / harvest
Duty 8: Farm Infrastructure
Monitor and maintain farm infrastructure, machinery and non-production areas as instructed.
Duty 8 Details
Activities to cover:
  • Any maintenance and repairing jobs you do around farm.
  • Checking oil in farm machinery
  • Fences
  • Water Troughs
  • Gates
  • Cattle Crush
  • General Building maintenance – cleaning drains out, tidying yard etc
Duty 9: Waste Management
Implement effective storage and disposal of waste in accordance with regulation.
Duty 9 Details
Activities to cover:
  • How chemicals, sharps, organic and non-organic waste are dealt with.
  • Carry out a short audit at your farm and identify and record the following:
  • Waste management of 2 different types of waste
  • An example of good waste management.
  • 1 improvement action you could take
Livestock Pathway
Duty 10: Livestock Health & Welfare
Carry out routine health and welfare checks on livestock and report on health and production performance when this is abnormal.
Duty 10 Details
Activities to cover:
  • Administration of routine treatments, under supervision and engaging with third parties such as vets
  • How animal welfare requirements are met
  • Signs of health and, or ill health in livestock (cattle: beef and dairy, pigs, sheep and goats). The zoonotic, non-zoonotic and notifiable diseases (for example, BSE) and their impact on human health
  • Assisting with treatments when appropriate.
Duty 11: Grazing & Forage Production
Monitor and select grass for either grazing or forage production- recognising and reporting on the growth, health and maintenance of a chosen grassland sward. Linked to Duty 7 above and 15 below
Duty 11 Details
Activities to cover:
  • CROP STORAGE & MONITORING – Prepare/maintain crop/forage storage (pest control, temperature monitoring).
  • CROPS, GRASS & FORAGE – Monitoring any / all of these for growth, health and sward / crop maintenance
  • CROPS, GRASS & FORAGE- Selecting for grazing / forage production / harvest
Duty 12: Feed & Water Livestock
Feed Animals as per instruction and ensuring fresh water is always accessible.
Duty 12 Details
Activities to cover:
  • An explanation of the different feeds used and available on your farm and how these are checked and kept free from contamination and spoiling
  • Feeding and watering livestock – at different stages of production and reproductive cycle
  • Any issues encountered during daily feeding and checking and what you did about them.
  • Any health and safety or environmental issues which may occur or be linked to feeding.
Duty 13: Livestock Gestation & Birth
Monitor animals prior to, during and post parturition, assisting with associated husbandry tasks.
Duty 13 Details
Activities to cover:
  • BREEDING AND MATING OF LIVESTOCK – including selecting suitable breeding stock and signs of heat or oestrus.
  • CARE OF PREGNANT LIVESTOCK
  • PARTURITION – Livestock at, just after or around birth
  • NEWBORN CARE – Care of newborn livestock, including any routine treatments and tasks carried out
  • FEEDING through to weaning of newborn livestock (remember weaning means taking off milk not just separating from mother)
  • RECORDS AND TECHNOLOGY involved with mating, pregnant livestock and newborn livestock.
Duty 14: Livestock Breeding & Mating
Perform relevant stock breeding related tasks under instruction; selection of animals, identification of signs of heat, assisting with service duties Linked to Duty 13
Duty 14 Details
Activities to cover:
  • BREEDING AND MATING OF LIVESTOCK – including selecting suitable breeding stock and signs of heat or oestrus.
  • CARE OF PREGNANT LIVESTOCK
  • PARTURITION – Livestock at, just after or around birth
  • NEWBORN CARE – Care of newborn livestock, including any routine treatments and tasks carried out
  • FEEDING through to weaning of newborn livestock (remember weaning means taking off milk not just separating from mother)
  • RECORDS AND TECHNOLOGY involved with mating, pregnant livestock and newborn livestock.
Crop Pathway
Duty 15: Crop & Forage Operations
Perform crop and or forage operations as per instruction.
Duty 15 Details
Activities to cover:
  • CROPS, GRASS & FORAGE – Monitoring any / all of these for growth, health and sward / crop maintenance
  • CROP / FORAGE HARVESTING, STORAGE & MONITORING – Prepare/maintain crop/forage storage (pest control, temperature monitoring).
  • CROPS, GRASS & FORAGE – Selecting for grazing / forage production / harvest
Duty 16: Crop Monitoring
Recognise and record (verbally and written) the growth and health of crops
Duty 16 Details
Activities to cover:
  • Assist with Crop Monitoring by walking several crops at different stages throughout the year both alone and with employer/agronomist
Duty 17: Crop Establishment
Assist with preparation and planting of field scale crops.
Duty 17 Details
Activities to cover:
  • Record of several field activities linked to growing a crop: cultivation, nutrient application, harvesting activities for example
Duty 18: Load / Unload Transport Crops & Supplies
Safely load, unload and transport harvested crops in accordance with legislation and codes of practice
Duty 18 Details
Activities to cover:
  • SAFELY LOAD, UNLOAD and TRANSPORT (in accordance with legislation and codes of practice)
  • HARVESTED CROPS
  • FEEDSTUFFS
  • OTHER RESOURCES
  • RECORDS involved with these activities. (Weight Tickets, Grain Passports etc) This can be a separate entry or included in the above entries
Duty 19: Crop Quality
Recognise good and poor quality in growing, harvested and stored crops.
Duty 19 Details
Activities to cover:
  • Monitoring, recording, reporting of crops: growing, harvesting, stored on various stages of growth and storage