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.

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

 

Categories: Events

Do you want to join a FISA hosted Electrical and Utility Awareness event in 2024?

The event will be a half day event and is a good way to gain competence development and an e-certificate of attendance will be issued. The event will be free to attend. 

he events are FREE to attend – and attendees will receive an Attendance Certificate after the event – so please register each person with the name required on their certificate.

After events in Stirling and Penrith, further events are being planned for mid and south England and Wales over the next few months.

The event is aimed to help engender a mutual understanding of the hazards, constraints and the respective roles and responsibilities and is suited to all personnel from across the industry:

  • FWM’s
  • Supervisors
  • Harvesting
  • Forest Road building and Maintenance
  • Ground preparation, drainage, and peat restoration.
  • Machine servicing
  • Forest Haulage, including timber haulage, machine low loader, equipment and material delivery.
  • Fencing
  • Survey
  • DNO forestry liaison personnel

The event will cover overhead, surface based and buried services; all are a significant worksite hazard and constraint across many forestry work types and work phases:

  • Planning
  • Mobilisation
  • During operations
  • Servicing, maintenance, material, and equipment supply
  • Wood product onsite processing works
  • Timber haulage

The attendance event has been created to raise awareness of the key issues, outline industry standards in reference to the principal roles and responsibilities. 

Attendance by FWM’s may be used as a demonstration of CPD with the FISA FWM Framework for Competence.

If you’re interested in joining an event please let technical@ukfisa.com know with your name, number of attendees and your location. 

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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.