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B.C.’s forest product manufacturers (FPM) now have access to the SAFE Companies program, following an October decision by the Council’s Executive Committee.
The new policy is in line with WorkSafeBC’s “natural alignment” concept, which allows certification of employers that have no health and safety association, but operate in related sectors. read more »
Vancouver, BC (November 3, 2009) – Kids from across the province were invited to draw a picture of what the forests in their communities mean to them. There were over 1,300 entries from every corner of the province – a huge increase from 2008’s 200 entries.
The winning entries included pictures of the children camping and hiking in the forest as well as homes for animals and healthy planets. There were 165 entries in the 4-5 age group; 523 entries in the 6-8 age group and 675 entries in the 9-12 age group. The winners include: read more »
As part of a province-wide effort to improve safety on resources roads, the Western Silviculture Contractors' Association is leading a series of training sessions on operating light trucks. read more »
Our mission is to eliminate all fatalities and serious injuries in the forest sector.
Without…Council-supported silviculture training standards and curricula in place and the credibility the WSCA's ongoing partnership with the Council provided, these Community Trust Fund dollars would not have been available to us. For that we are indebted to the Council and its support of the BC SAFE Silviculture Project.
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A number of recent reports highlight the risk of incidents involving mobile equipment upsets or “flop-overs.” In some cases, what might have seemed relatively minor events turned serious when equipment operators couldn’t get out of their machine to safety.
There is an ongoing safety risk when vehicles pass graders while they are working. The graders could encounter tough cutting and shift sideways, an unnoticed rock could roll off the blade into the path of a vehicle, or the grader operator could swerve to pick up scattered rocks and not notice a passing vehicle
A piece of steel shrapnel hit a worker in the upper thigh, narrowly missing the femoral artery, resulting in hospitalization and surgery to repair the damage and remove the shrapnel. The worker was replacing a track link on an excavator and used a sledge hammer to hit the pin. A shard chipped off the pin. When hardened steel is struck with another steel tool there
