Overview

Strategies and Expectations

Establish baseline health and safety data for farming and fishing
Fund further research projects relating to priority physical health and safety issues, including drug and alcohol use
Identify key issues for research with regard to mental health associated with farming and fishing and fund research into critical issues
Identify strategies based on research results to provide assistance to farming and fishing industries to enable them to improve physical and mental health
Identify and establish effective communication and adoption pathways to ensure key messages to those involved in farming and fisheries health and safety have the most impact
Improve monitoring, review and evaluation methodology and practice in health and safety research for farming and fishing
Engage with the 2010 Heywire winners through a ‘Youth Steering Committee' in order to facilitate youth participation in research and policy in the areas of rural youth mental health, binge drinking and motor vehicle deaths and injuries
Establish projects on ‘Rural Youth Participation in Developing Research and Policy' working in conjunction with the Foundation for Australian Youth and the Left-Right Think Tank in the areas of rural youth mental health, binge drinking and motor vehicle deaths and injuries.

Provision of one post graduate scholarship for the Collaborative Partnership for Farming and Fishing Health and Safety
Report of a nationwide farm survey to collect information on current occupation health and safety practices by farmers to minimise hazards on farms
Occupational health and safety baseline data for the fishing industry
Studies of drug and alcohol use by farming and fishing workers
Design and implementation of a project the allows 2010 Heywire winners to work with the program to provide ideas for research and policy development in the areas of rural youth mental health, binge drinking and motor vehicle deaths and injuries
Communication strategy for the Collaborative Partnership for Farming and Fishing Health and Safety
Research initiated for a study of capacity building for rural and remote communities to improve mental health in rural communities.

Greater co-investment in the Collaborative Partnership for Farming and Fishing Health and Safety
Improved baseline data on farming and fishing health and safety, including mental health and alcohol and drug use that will allow better monitoring of trends
Increased awareness of research outputs from the Program by stakeholders, policy makers, practitioners (health professionals and farmer and fishers) and other users of the research
Involvement of rural youth in research into priority health and safety issues faced by the rural youth demographic.