The Safety Library holds a wide range of items. These can be filtered using the categories listing on the right-hand-side or bottom of the page.
FISA Safety Guide 811
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.
FISA Safety Bulletin
This Bulletin provides guidance on what you need to consider before working on site with fire-damaged trees.
Mechanical harvesting
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).
FISA Technical Note 004
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.
Quads & All-Terrain Vehicles
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.
FISA Safety Bulletin
Forestry pesticide users do need to be suitably trained and certified.
CDM in Relation to Forestry
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.