Safety Guides & Technical Notes

FISA Safety Guides are listed below and are all downloadable for printing direct.

FISA Technical Notes can be found here.

Categories: Safety Library, Chainshot, Technical Notes

Chainshot - manage the risk

FISA Technical Note 004

Chainshot has been the cause of several fatal accidents around the world and a near fatal accident in the UK 2019.

This FISA Technical Note will explain what Chainshot is and the control measures ALL persons can put in place to reduce risk.

Documents to download

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Safety Guides

FISA Safety Guides are numbered in the same format as the previous AFAG Safety Guides:

  • 100s - Establishment
  • 200s - Maintenance
  • 300s - Chainsaw Use
  • 500s - Extraction
  • 600s - Processing
  • 700s - Vehicles
  • 800s - General Safety

Technical Notes

  • TN001 - Using Tree Jacks
  • TN002 - Planning Chainsaw Operations
  • TN003 - Inspection of Work Equipment & Machines
  • TN004 - Chainshot - Manage the Risk

Additional information

Aerial tree work guides from Arboricultural Association can be found here. 

A couple of AFAG guides can be found here. 

Bulk purchase of some of the FISA guides is available - please email technical@ukfisa.com for more detail.