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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Forestry Safety Day

21st October 2025

Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells. 10am - 3pm

Open to anyone working in forestry operations in Wales, Confor is hosting a Forestry Safety Day in collaboration with Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and the Forest Industry Safety Accord (FISA).

Forest workers from the Welsh public and private sectors are invited to join us for a day discussing industry safety, from reporting and planning requirements to mental health and risk zones.
We expect speakers from FCA, FISA, Mountain Rescue and NRW.

Light lunch and refreshments included.

This event is kindly sponsored by Pontrilas Sawmills and NRW.

This is a free event but tickets are limited. Please book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

More detail here.

 

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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.