Safety Guides

FISA Safety Guides are listed below and are all downloadable for printing direct.
They are numbered in the same format as the previous AFAG Safety Guides.

FISA Technical Notes can be found here.

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

 

Categories: Chainshot

Chainshot - what is the risk?

Forestry and Timber News article - August 2020

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

Chainshot is the ejected pieces of a saw chain following a chain break which travel at ballistic speeds (700 mph).

Chainshot has as much kinetic energy as a bullet fired from a rifle.
 

Documents to download

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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.