Safety Guides & Technical Notes

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

FISA Technical Notes can be found here.

FLS COVID-19 compliance checks - update report December 2020

The COVID-19 checks, carried out as part of FLS’s Plan-Do-Check-Act approach to health and safety management, continue to demonstrate an overall good level of compliance. This reflects the significant efforts to manage COVID-19 risks effectively by both FLS staff and suppliers. However, the checks did identify areas for improvement on some sites which were addressed quickly. This demonstrates the value of Plan-Do-Check-Act process in promoting compliance and a culture of continual improvement. The cases of COVID-19 reported in workers highlights the day-to-day risk presented by the virus, and importance of continuing efforts to reduce transmission as far as possible.
 

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.