Safety Guides & Technical Notes

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

FISA Technical Notes can be found here.

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FISA Summit 2025

Wednesday 17th September 2025 - Rheged, Penrith

Come and join us and participate in our safety focussed annual event.

Registration NOW OPEN

Doors open at 12 noon with the summit commencing with a networking buffet lunch from 12:30.

Formal proceedings will begin at 13:30.

The comprehensive agenda will feature:

  • In depth exploration of Risk Zones in forestry operations
  • Summary reports from all the FISA working group heads
  • Introduction to new FISA Safety Guidance
  • Launch of updated industry signage
  • Relaunch of the FISA Safety Award

A Q&A session will be incorporated as well and we encourage participants to come prepared with questions and insights to share from their own operations.

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FISA Pre-Summit Questionnaire

We’d also appreciate your input into this short survey to ensure we cover as much as we can on the day.

  • Do you know the risk zones for each piece of equipment you use?
  • How do you consider and use risk zones during your work?
  • Do you always adhere to stated risk zones?
  • Have you experienced risk zone breaches?
  • Do you use FISA Safety Guides or other organisations safety materials?
  • Are there FISA Guides that you feel need updating?
  • How easy is it to find safety information on the FISA website? Mobile or desktop?

Please complete the attached survey and send back to admin@ukfisa.com.

 

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.