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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 »
This guideline provides information on industrial activities that are high or low risk, and on appropriate types and quantities of tools and fire suppression systems to be available during industrial activities. This is intended to apply to crews working within 300m of forest or grassland as required by the Wildfire Act and Regulation. read more »
VANCOUVER – The BC Forest Safety Council’s board of directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Reynold Hert as the new CEO of the forest sector’s health and safety association. Hert, who joins the Council March 16, brings a passion for safety, along with an extensive background in forestry. read more »
Our mission is to eliminate all fatalities and serious injuries in the forest sector.
The supervisors' course....is one step towards ensuring standards are adhered to - not just by the fallers, but by the industry.
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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
