Giving the new employee an overview

When a new employee joins the farm they need to be made to feel welcome. You may want to do all the induction yourself or you may ask another trusted person to take some of the responsibility for:

• A tour of the farm and explanation of the major operations
• Introductions to other workers
• A description of the history of the business and how it got to where it is today
• An outline of the main produce, seasonal activities and how that affects work tasks and levels of activity
• General future plans and what that might mean to the farm as a whole
• Social activities on and off the farm
• Transport off the farm
• Living quarters, meals and facilities
• Medical services and support
• Who to take concerns to
• Farm rules (other than OH&S issues covered elsewhere)

And so on….

Click here to see an extract from a Guide for Station Hands in Pastoral Industries. It shows how induction information for new employees can be presented in writing.

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