TIAH Essential Skills

TIAH Essential Skills

We're providing online learning opportunities to existing and new farmers and growers, to continually improve skills and knowledge.
Farmers and growers need a core set of essential skills to deliver success.

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Our essential skills modules can help workers of all levels on farms.
We’ve identified priority areas where good practice is integral to successful agricultural and horticultural businesses:  ​​​​​​Everyone on farm, regardless of role, needs to understand these key issues to ensure the industry’s continued improvement. 


Why not complete one or more of the learning modules in these key areas which we've developed in collaboration with industry experts.

These learning paths - each a series of modules or learning resources to develop knowledge and skills in a particular topic - allow learners to gain and annually refresh knowledge at their own pace. 

Here are the aims of each of the TIAH Essential Skills learning paths: 
 
Our farm safety learning path will help you identify hazards and risks.

Foundations in farm safety (for farm workers)

This learning path contains four modules designed to help all farm workers improve their recognition of hazards, understand how to effectively manage risks, and best practice around reporting of incidents. Its aims are to:
  • Increase the uptake of health and safety training across the industry  
  • Develop positive behavioural change to improve health and safety on farm 
  • Promote compliance with best practices for health and safety  
  • Improve health and safety statistics on farms   
  • Support health and safety improvements and record-keeping   
  • Achieve a positive sense of health and safety on farm  
Sign in or create an account to access the TIAH Essential Skills: Foundations in farm safety (for farm workers) learning path.
Our farm safety learning path will help you identify hazards and risks.
Animal health and welfare are vital to the efficiency and profitability of livestock farms.

Animal health and welfare

This learning path will help you understand how animal welfare can affect safety, efficiency and profitability on a farm. Its aims are to:
Animal health and welfare are vital to the efficiency and profitability of livestock farms.
  • Increase awareness of the issues around animal health and welfare, including animal biosecurity  
  • Promote and improve compliance with animal health and welfare regulations  
  • Improve recognition and delivery of animal health and welfare best practice
Our first modules on animal health and welfare are aimed at those working at operator or farm technician level.

Sign in or create an account to access the TIAH Essential Skills: Animal health and welfare learning path.
Cleaning is a vital step in maintaining good levels of biosecurity on a farm. Shutterstock.com/CHIRATH PHOTO

Biosecurity

This module focuses on biosecurity and is applicable to all farmers and growers, whether you’re new to the topic or as a refresher. Its aims are to:
  • Increase awareness and understanding of biosecurity, and the implications of poor biosecurity 
  • Increase understanding of the importance of preventing, detecting, and responding to harmful organisms  
  • Ensure all farm workers understand personal biosecurity measures 
  • Ensure continued biosecurity measures to prevent new pests and diseases 
  • Protect the economic and environmental benefits of healthy plants and animals 
Sign in or create an account to access the TIAH Essential Skills: Biosecurity learning path.
Cleaning is a vital step in maintaining good levels of biosecurity on a farm. Shutterstock.com/CHIRATH PHOTO
Coaching can improve your staff retention rates.

Coaching for staff retention

This learning path covers essential coaching skills that, with practice, you can develop to become a great workplace coach, resulting in improved productivity and staff retention. Its aims are to:
Coaching can improve your staff retention rates.
  • Introduce the benefits of coaching and the core skills, behaviours, skills and knowledge needed for success
  • Improve active listening and thoughtful questioning skills to build on goal setting and problem solving abilities
  • Develop techniques for overcoming limiting beliefs which can otherwise hinder someone's personal development
  • Increase understanding of how coaching can be applied in a variety of situations 

Thanks to our partner organisations

Our Essential Skills modules have been made in collaboration with a range of industry partners, including: