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Fiona’s blog: Welcome back to work. I wish the year had got off to a better start. But sadly, we had our first forestry fatality last Thursday in Ruatoria near Gisborne. My sympathies go out to the family, friends and crewmates of the...
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Read postFiona’s blog: Managing work pressures At this busy time of year, it’s not uncommon for the pressure to ‘get the job done’ to really escalate, particularly when there are trucks waiting to be loaded or ships coming into port needing to...
Read postSafetree’s How Are We Tracking? dashboard provides a snapshot of forestry’s health and safety performance. Summary of results The latest dashboard shows an increase in harm-prevention activities undertaken by the Forest Industry Safety...
Read postSafetree has produced a new booklet to help you manage risks in your forestry operations. The booklet runs through the main types of forestry risks, the four-step risk-managment process, and various practical methods to assess and manage...
Read postThe Forest Industry Safety Council's goal is a safe, sustainable and professional forestry sector achieved in partnership with workers, industry and government. Our Annual Report outlines our progress toward this goal. FISC runs the Safetree...
Read postSafetree’s How Are We Tracking dashboard provides a snapshot of forestry’s health and safety performance, including the outcome of WorkSafe activities. The most recent dashboard shows that while injuries are below the levels they reached...
Read postSafetree’s How are we tracking dashboard shows that while serious injuries in forestry have fallen since 2013, they’ve risen again over the past year. The dashboard provides a snapshot of forestry’s H&S performance, including the outcome of...
Read postFatigue is a significant workplace risk that must be managed and controlled like any other.Forestry's early starts, long hours and tiring work, together with non-work factors such as not getting enough sleep or mental health issues, means fatigue...
Read postWe would like to encourage everyone to pay respects to the people who’ve died in our industry at Team Safety Talks on Thursday.Thursday 28th April is Workers Memorial Day – when around the world people remember those killed on the...
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