Introduction

This is the area that we feel is most important to all in the horse industry.

The general public, in most cases, has no concept of safety around horses. As leaders in the horse community we believe that Horse Safety Australia, through its members, set standards of safe handling and management of horses and horse related events, ensuring the safety of the handlers, the general public and the horses.

With this in mind, we spend much of the four days and evenings of the Horse Safety Australia clinics looking at most aspects of working with people and horses, constantly relating the activities at the clinic to risk management concepts.

Resources

We have a number of written resources that are available to our members (and the general public on request) covering risk management at events, a special guide to understanding the AHIC  Code of Practice, HorseSafe (in plain English), and many other documents that cover different aspect of horse safety, plus some general issues that relate to small businesses in the horse industry.

Horse Safety Australia also acts as a clearing house of useful information, passing on helpful hints, price reductions for bulk buying horse related equipment (for commercial establishments), and information on the latest products and safety issues.

We also recommend a  book by Jane Myers (available through Horse Safety Australia and published by the CSIRO) called Horse Safe, which covers most aspects of handling, riding and working around horses. Special introductory price through Horse Safety Australia $39.60 including postage and handling.