Safety Guides & Technical Notes

FISA Safety Guides are listed below and are all downloadable for printing direct. They are numbered in series groups for example Chainsaw Guides all numbered 300. Use the search bar and type in either the guide number or subject title.

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

FISA Technical Notes can be found here.

Categories: Safety Alerts, Site Safety

Finger injury – 3 Day Lost Time Accident

Highways England - Safety Alert

On Monday 1st February 2021, an operative sustained a significant finger injury whilst unhitching a trailer from a Ford transit van.

Findings:
• The misalignment was not considered by the team to be significant so a claw hammer and bolt were used to insert/ remove the towing pin (the pin should not have needed additional force to be applied)
• The misalignment (possibly caused by the hitch being previously knocked) should have been logged and the vehicle quarantined from towing activities.

External safety information provided by other parties, FISA is not responsible for provision of this information; but if you have comment, we can feed this back to the party sharing the safety information.

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Safety Guides

FISA Safety Guides are numbered in series groups for example Chainsaw Guides all numbered 300. Use the search bar and type in either the guide number or subject title.

  • 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.