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.

FISA 304

Chainsaw cross-cutting and manual stacking

This leaflet covers the safe working practices to be used when cross-cutting and stacking timber. For guidance on personal protective equipment (PPE), the machine, preparing to work, maintenance,fuelling and starting procedures see FISA leaflet 301 Using petrol driven chainsaws.

FISA 303

Chainsaw snedding

This leaflet covers the safe working practices to be used whenremoving the branches of conifers and small hardwoods. For guidance on personal protective equipment (PPE), the machine,preparing to work, maintenance, fuelling and starting procedures see FISA leaflet 301 Using petroldriven chainsaws.

FISA 302

Basic chainsaw felling and manual takedown

This guide contains industry agreed safe working practices which should be followed when using a chainsaw to fell and take down trees.

Updated June 2018.

FISA 301

Using petrol-driven chainsaws

This leaflet covers the safe working practices to be followed when using a petrol-driven chainsaw. For guidance on specific operations involving chainsaws, see FISA leaflets 302–310.

FISA 204

Flails and mulchers in tree work

This leaflet covers the safe working practices to be followed when operating front-, rear- or arm-mounted flails and mulchers in forestry and other tree work. The flail or mulcher may be part of a purposebuilt machine or mounted on and powered by a tractor, excavator or other suitable base vehicle.

FISA 203

Clearing Saw

This leaflet covers the safe working practices to be followed when using a petrol-driven clearing saw.

FISA 202

Application of pesticides by hand-held equipment

This leaflet covers the application of pesticides (solid or liquid) by hand-held equipment in forestry and other tree work.

FISA 104

Fencing

This leaflet covers the safe working practices to be followed when erecting and dismantling post and wire fences, but not woodwork fences.

FISA 103

Planting

This leaflet covers the measures to be taken to ensure that the risk of injury is minimised when using manual tools for tree-planting operations.

FISA 102

Pre-planting spraying of container-grown seedlings

This leaflet covers the pre-planting application of pesticides to container-grown seedlings for forestry and other tree work.

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.