Managing Fatigue and Farming

In collaboration with the Rural Safety & Health Alliance (RSHA) the Farming and Fatigue: Growing Sensible Solutions project led by CQUniversity and AgHealth Australia aims to help industry understand, measure and manage fatigue on-farm. By merging frontline agricultural insights with cutting-edge research, this project aims to deliver comprehensive, user-friendly guidance on fatigue management tailored to the unique demands of farming.

3 Key Learnings

1. Causes of fatigue in farming contexts
2. Contemporary approaches to fatigue risk management
3. Skills and strategies to manage fatigue

About Nicole

Dr Nicole McDonald (B.Sci Psychology, PhD Vocational Psychology of Agriculture) is a Senior Researcher within the Agricultural Education and Extension research cluster at CQUniversity. Nicole has worked with Australian farmers over the last decade on a number of farmer-centred projects including understanding how cotton farmers adapt to continuously improve their operations to embrace the future of work, co-designing a program to embed on-farm training in non-technical skills for cotton growers and their teams.