The refreshed 2019 FISA Guidance on Managing Health & Safety in Forestry (GMHSF).

FISA has received a number of queries with regard to zoonnoses.

HSE advice and practical guidance on working safely in hot conditions.

Advice on heatstroke and heat exhaustion; and tips to help keep hydrated.

FISA Safety Bulletin

This FISA document sets out guidance on how to work safely. It gives practical considerations of how this can be applied in forestry operations.

A third of all fatal accident in agricultural involve cattle. HSE guidance for farmers and landowners.

The FISA Haulage WG welcomes all ideas, suggestions and solutions to reduce potential risks to operators, operatives and allow for legal compliance.

FISA FHWG have shared this Safety Bulletin from Peel Ports, whereby a fall from a truck resulted in a fatality.

FISA Safety Bulletin

Some tips from the British Columbia & New Zealand websites.

Storm Eowyn and Darragh updates

FISA have recently received several queries seeking advice on the issue of how to approach retrieving trees or timber out of rivers or other water bodies.

Sites are seeing increasing numbers of wild boar, often in wooded areas. The Landowner needs to ensure that hazard information on and around forestry worksites are communicated to the FWM – including the more random hazards!

FISA Safety Bulletin

FISA have received several phone calls about self-employed persons working in the forestry industry, mainly from those working in the planting sector.

Due to an increase in welfare queries to FISA here is a welfare guidance roundup.