Safety Guides & Technical Notes

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

FISA Technical Notes can be found here.

Categories: Safety Bulletins, Health & Welfare

Risks from reuse of hydraulic components

FISA's Plant & Equipment working group has issued a reminder of the risks from reuse of hydraulic components.

While the documents below from HSE in 2017 and FLS in 2019 they remain relevant today and both warn of the risks from reuse of hydraulic components that have become detached while under pressure. The FLS item relates to an incident in Australia.

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.