Practical staff, payroll and safety systems for farming businesses, built by someone who grew up on a farm and still farms one. Agricultural HR, WHS for farms and Fair Work for agriculture, done properly.
Answer 20 plain-English questions about your staff, payroll and safety setup. We'll show you where your HR and WHS gaps are, what's at risk, and what to do about it.
Principal, Headland Australia
Tessa grew up in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains. She still lives and farms there today, raising her family on the same kind of country her clients work. She's not advising from a city office. She's dealing with the same seasons, the same labour headaches, and the same paperwork as the people she works with.
Before starting Headland, she spent years inside one of Australia's biggest privately-held farming operations, running HR, WHS, payroll and Fair Work compliance across multiple sites. She knows what good systems look like from the inside. She also knows what it costs when they fall apart.
Farms deserve straight advice from someone who actually knows the industry. Not a generic template from someone who's never set foot in a paddock.
About TessaTemplates and guides you can use right now. No signup, no cost.
Five sections covering employment, safety, policies, and on-farm risks. Print it off and work through it.
Get the checklistA standard operating procedure template built for farm tasks. Fill in the brackets, file it with the relevant machine or process.
Get the templateA printable record sheet for safety toolbox talks. Covers attendance, discussion points, hazards, and follow-up actions.
Get the templateNo packages to pick, no sales dance. Most farms start with the Farm Compliance Review. From there, some run with the fixes themselves, some want us alongside them, and some hand the whole people-and-safety side over. It's shaped around your operation.
Rather do it yourself? Grab the templates in Farm Resources. Want it handled end to end, payroll and all? Talk to us.
From a mum-and-dad operation with a handful of staff to corporate farms managing hundreds of workers across multiple sites. The obligations are the same. So are the consequences of getting it wrong.
We work with both ends, and everyone in between.