Safety Guides & Technical Notes

FISA Safety Guides are listed below and are all downloadable for printing direct. They are numbered in series groups for example Chainsaw Guides all numbered 300. Use the search bar and type in either the guide number or subject title.

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

FISA Technical Notes can be found here.

Categories: Events, Chainsaw Operations

What are the Competency Frameworks?

Free Webinar - 16th September 2022 at 3pm

The webinar included a live Q&A following presentations of how real worked examples from industry are being implemented as part of the FWM & chainsaw competency frameworks.

Presentations are mostly downloadable below, with recordings and Q&A also available:

  1. HSE Inspection focus chainsaw & FWM competency; responsibilities as detailed in (GMHSF) – Kathy Gostick (HSE)
  2. FISA ‘FWM Competency Framework’ – Chris Pike (Tilhill)
  3. FISA ‘Chainsaw Competency System’ – Calum Duffy (Safe Forestry)
  4. Site specific Risk Assessment (RA) and FWM competency – Mike Yerbury & Joey Oliver (Egger)
  5. Contractor competence – Matthew Whitehead (NRW)
  6. Worked chainsaw competency example - Andy Sloss (FLS)
  7. Chainsaw champions - Tina Ambler (Tilhill)
  8. EdApp example – Mark Tansley (Euroforest)
  9. MySafety App competency logging - Stephen Bartlett (Mysafety)
  10. Safe Forestry - Calum Duffy (Safe Forestry)
  11. Recording your competence, your own record = your choice - Iain Calvert (Scottish Woodlands)
  12. Q&A

This event can be used as part of your own recorded CPD.

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Safety Guides

FISA Safety Guides are numbered in series groups for example Chainsaw Guides all numbered 300. Use the search bar and type in either the guide number or subject title.

  • 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.