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.

100s - Establishment 200s - Maintenance 300s - Chainsaw Use
500s - Extraction 600s - Processing 700s - Vehicles
800s - General Safety    

 

Categories: Safety Alerts, Site Safety

Safe Working Distances – Use of Flail Head

A FISA member has shared this safety alert on Safe working distances for use of flail head.

  • The flail head struck a piece of wire which had not been spotted during the pre-works checks.
  • The wire was thrown approximately 38m outside of the working area and struck a parked car on the far side of the road working area.
  • No-one was injured in this incident.

Read the full alert below for more about the incident, key lessons learned and related industry good practice guidance.

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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.