New FISA Safety Guide - October 2026

This is a new guide intended for everyone involved in the planning, managing, and carrying out of all forest operations and tree work in the forest environment.

New FISA Safety Guide - September 2026

This is a new guide intended for anyone specifying, approving, managing or carrying out drone operations, including equipment operators, supervisors, contractors and those working in the vicinity of a drone.

This Bulletin provides guidance on what you need to consider before working on site with fire-damaged trees.

Updated - September 2026

This leaflet covers the use of an excavator conversion or purposebuilt harvester for felling and processing trees in forestry and other tree work.

The refreshed 2019 FISA Guidance on Managing Health & Safety in Forestry (GMHSF).

Updated - September 2026

This Technical Note has been revised to redefine the chainshot risk/exclusion zone from a flat 70m minimum to the greater of 90m, the manufacturer's risk zone, or two tree lengths plus boom length, with slope now an explicit factor.

Updated July 2026 - carrying important information relating to the use of ATVs both in forestry and agriculture.
A summary of the updates is also available.

This guide covers the safe working practices to be followed when using sit-astride all-terrain vehicles (Quad Bikes) and side-by-side all-terrain vehicles (ATV). All-terrain vehicles are vehicles that are designed specifically for off-road use.

Forestry pesticide users do need to be suitably trained and certified.

June 2026 - FISA 808 Feedback Q&A (V2) June 2026

September 2024 - This new guide provides a summary for the Construction Design & Management (CDM) Regulations 2015 and how they apply to forestry-related construction work.