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: Safety Guides

FISA 704

Excavators in tree work

This leaflet covers the safe working practices to be followed when operating tracked 360 excavators and walking excavators in forestry and other tree work.

For guidance on specific operations involving excavator base units see FISA leaflets 204 Flails and mulchers in tree work, 504 Extraction by cable crane, 603 Mechanical harvesting, and 605 Mechanical roadside processing.

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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.