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: Haulage

Timber Transport Forum

Thanks to Scottish Forestry we now have an STTS grant available to support the fitting of strap auto tensioner systems to timber lorries.  Three awards of up to £5000 are available to Scottish-based companies, one grant per company.  This is a one-off support is to demonstrate the technology.  I don’t expect grant support to be ongoing thereafter. 

Deadline for applications 30th October 2020 and systems must be fitted by February 2021.

You can find the details and the application form at https://forestry.gov.scot/forestry-business/timber-transport/strategic-timber-transport-scheme/funding-to-demonstrate-auto-tensioner-systems

A video showing the sort of system is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKOir0zKm-A&feature=youtu.be

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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.