Here is where you can find the latest safety and Safetree™ news.
Safetree, FISC and FICA want to support you while our country goes on its ‘stay home’ journey. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting interesting and entertaining videos and other resources on social media. These aim to help you and...
Read postFiona’s blog As you will be well aware, New Zealand will move to a level 4 Covid-19 response at midnight tonight and all non-essential industries will shut-down for at least a month, including forestry. This move is being taken to contain...
Read postAs many of you will understand these decisions are not easy to make butcollectively, we confirm that FISC & FICA have decided to postpone theSafetree Conference until later this year, in light of COVID-19 pandemic andfocus on public events.We...
Read postFiona’s blog This is a stressful time for people working in forestry. The slowdown caused by Covid-19 (Coronavirus) is hitting people in harvesting particularly hard. I am working closely with FICA to pass on information ‘from the...
Read postFiona’s blog: The slowdown and uncertainty in forestry at present means some forestry businesses, their workers and families are doing it tough. We still don’t know what is going to happen with the impact of Coronavirus on the...
Read postFiona’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 postFiona’s blog: Connecting with each other and working together are essential if we are going to build safe, healthy and successful forestry businesses. Working together enables us to learn from, and to support, each other. There are some...
Read postSafe Start-Up meetings are a great way to get people back into the right head-space after the holiday break. So Safetree has prepared some powerpoint slides that can be used at these meetings. The slides highlight three key actions that will...
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