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, Haulage

Transporting round timber in extreme/freezing temperatures

FISA Bulletin

FISA has received raised concern on transporting round timber in extreme / freezing temperatures after a recent incident.

  • Have you experienced similar in freezing cold temperatures?

Please send any feedback to technical@ukfisa.com.

Details of the incident, other factors and potential causes are noted in the download below.

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.