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Peter Lineen will be joining the BC Forest Safety Council in the new role of Chief Operating Officer effective September 1 reporting to the CEO, Reynold Hert. Reporting to Peter will be the Program Directors: Krista Bax for Safe Companies, Steve Mueller for Forest Worker Development, and the future replacement for the position of Director, TruckSafe. read more »
This report sets out recommendations of the WorkSafeBC internal faller serious injury and fatalities task team (“the group”), which reviewed and analyzed reports of 32 serious injury and fatal incidents that occurred from 2000 to 2008. read more »
This progress report by the BC Forest Safety Council is for the people in the forest industry and others interested in safety in British Columbia's working woods.
Titled Taking safety to the next level, the report lets you: read more »
Our mission is to eliminate all fatalities and serious injuries in the forest sector.
We have an incredible safety focus because integrating safety as a way of doing business results in lower costs, higher productivity and better worker morale.
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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
