Hi Candis. A late reply.

I operate in a large orchard with linehaul trucks delivering to one location and refrigerated export container trucks operating at the coolstore facilities, and smaller trucks moving product between both. There is cross-over in-between all of them. There is no one set of guidelines we use, although we drawn from all.

Do we use driver safety zones? One location did not lend itself to creating exclusion zones so there is a marked exclusion zone to prepare for unloading, then the driver stays in the cab and pulls forward under the control of the forklift driver as unloading occurs then they pull forward into another zone where they are loaded which then becomes a safe zone created by a retractable barrier (under the control of the forklift driver as they leave the zone) to prepare for departure. When the barrier is up, it is a forklift-free zone where the driver may roam, strap load and close curtains etc.

Didn't someone here comment a few months back that they had been reviewing an NZ based clients hazard register, and figured it was AI generated because it listed snake bites as a likely hazard with outdoor work?

I am leaning towards a strong level of distrust because the average user won't frame the question with enough context to get a useful answer, and will blindly trust the answer.