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.

FISA Technical Notes can be found here.

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

 

Categories: Safety Bulletins, Haulage

Work at Height 2005 (update May 2020)

FISA Safety Bulletin

Further to the bulletin issued in Oct 19 - Core guidance and background resources on this topic remain as: http://www.hse.gov.uk/fallsfromvehicles/index.htm and http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg401.pdf  

Receivers of timber should ensure their Risk Assessments / work procedures are compliant. Most commonly this will be through the provision of gantries and platforms in timber yards to allow access for safe sweeping off.

The FISA Forest Haulage Working group have been specifically reviewing Work at Height in relation to flat HGV trailers, in particular where drivers have to erect / disassemble bolster pins in the forest.

A video of solutions developed by WG members can be seen at: https://youtu.be/9IoDXItrY8w 

Documents to download

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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.