Advice from Canadian tree fallers and a big welcome!

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Our latest update has advice from seven mega-experienced Canadian tree-fallers on how to stay safe, as well as our How Are We Tracking? Dashboard, which provides a regular snapshot of forestry’s health and safety performance.

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Advice from Canadian tree fallers

Want to know how to stay injury-free? Who better to ask than a bunch of people who’ve done just that for many decades.

Seven Canadian tree-fallers have offered their seven top tips for staying injury-free. Together they have 280 years’ experience falling trees!

Their stories were collected by BCForestsafe.org, which has agreed to share them with Safetree in a poster and booklet.

Download the poster (PDF)

Download the booklet (PDF)

How are we tracking?

Safetree’s How Are We Tracking? dashboard provides a snapshot of forestry’s health and safety performance.

Download the Safetree dashboard March 2017 (PDF)

View the latest dashboard on the Safetree website

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