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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 »
The BC Forest Safety Council (BCFSC) is pleased to announce that the Wood Products Manufacturing sector can now access WorkSafeBC (WSBC) Certificate of Recognition (COR) rebates through natural alignment. After gathering input from the Forest Products Manufacturing sector through outreach efforts and meetings held in throughout 2009 the BCFSC Board of Directors has approved moving forward. read more »
Vancouver, B.C. – (October 5, 2009) – The BC Forest Safety Council and Ministry of Labour have recognized two forestry workers for advancing safe practices in BC’s forest industry. read more »
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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
