About Dicky Bill
Dicky Bill Australia is a 4th generation farming business that specialises in Baby Leaf Salads. The founder Richard William Barnard, or fondly “Dicky Bill” to those close to him, was a great man of honesty and ethics, a true farmer focused on growing superior quality produce.
THE CHALLENGE
- There is a high turnover of staff (working visa holders). Inductions and training is ongoing.
- As some employees are from overseas there are constant communication barriers – both written and verbal.
- Working days generally start very early – there is no opportunity to have a face-to-face induction prior to starting and when it happened – it took up a lot of time. There is a need to induct staff prior to arriving onsite – PPE, smoking, drug use, OH&S, hygiene etc.
- It is difficult to have groups of staff do the training in a room especially during the busy harvest season. Prefer them to undertake on-line training and assessments when they can.
- Ongoing issues with receiving hand written information from new starters that can’t be read by Payroll. Takes up more time chasing it up.
THE SOLUTION
Dicky Bill’s Business Improvement Manager reached out to Induct For Work after recognising that paper folders and scattered spreadsheets were slowing new-hire onboarding. Within days, the Induct For Work team configured a fully customisable platform tailored to the farm’s processes. The system now delivers ongoing online inductions for pickers, pack-house staff and contractors, guiding each worker through safety modules, hygiene rules and equipment checklists before their first shift. It also captures pre-employment documents—right-to-work evidence, forklift licences and medical declarations—and monitors expiry dates automatically. Managers receive clear dashboard alerts, ensuring credentials stay current and audits become a quick download rather than a stressful paper hunt.
THE BENEFITS
- The system provides important information to all staff in formats they understand – pictures, wording, videos and different languages.
- It is being used as a performance management tool. Have certain staff assessed on core procedures. Assessments are setup as recurring.
- Excellent tool for capturing licences, qualifications, pre-employment documents.
- The system is very customisable and works around Dicky Bill’s needs. Managers do not spend their time on manually inducting & training staff, tracking expiry dates for a range of things.
- Helps our company to engage with our staff, who are often too busy to all sit in a room together to receive important training.
- The System has been excellent for auditing purposes – Fair Work, WorkSafe, HACCP, Freshcare. All have been very impressed with its capabilities.
- The system does all the hard work for you!
THE RESULTS
Since utilising Induct For Work, Dicky Bill’s management team has finally redirected valuable hours toward crop innovation and customer outreach instead of chasing paper trails. The platform’s agricultural induction modules guide pickers, supervisors and seasonal contractors through safety, hygiene and machinery lessons before they set foot in the paddocks, capturing licences and medicals in a single dashboard. Automated reminders replace last-minute phone calls, while real-time reports flag expiring documents before they become problems. With compliance locked in, managers can focus on planning harvest schedules, improving yields and securing new distribution deals, confident their workforce is trained, documented and fully audit-ready.
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