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.
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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 templateEvery farm is different. Some operators want the right templates and want to do it themselves. Some want a second set of eyes when they need it. Some want to hand it over and forget about it. There's an option that fits.
Get the right templates, checklists and documents for your operation. You do the work. We make sure you're using the right tools for the job.
Learn moreWe work through it together. Calls, document reviews and tailored advice when you need it. Good for farms that want expert input without handing the whole job over.
Learn moreWe handle it end-to-end. HR and WHS systems, payroll and Fair Work compliance, incident response, the lot. You get on with running the farm. We keep the paperwork tight.
Learn moreFrom 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.