Here is where you can find the latest safety and Safetree™ news.
Fiona’s Blog Safetree has been asked to update the industry’s alcohol and drugs guideline with a view to ensuring it is effective and reflects current best practice thinking. The existing NZFOA guideline focuses heavily on testing –...
Read postFiona’s Blog We’re sharing two recent Safety Alerts that highlight the importance of managing the risks of machine roll-overs. (See the alerts below). These Alerts underscore the need for workers, contractors and forest owners/managers...
Read postFiona’s Blog It’s great to see that Safetree’s leadership training has been made available to other primary industry businesses, with the support of the Ministry of Primary Industries. Despite the restrictions imposed by...
Read postNew and Improved Dashboard Reporting As of 17 January 2022, the Safetree Certification system has moved from BraveGen to EcoPortal. With EcoPortal, Certified Contractors can see all of their audit information! Plus, they can share it with...
Read postOmicron looks certain to sweep across New Zealand over the coming months and experience overseas suggests this highly infectious Covid-19 variant is going to disrupt supply chains and leave businesses without enough workers to operate either...
Read postFiona’s Blog It’s nearly the end of 2021 and what a rollercoaster of a year it’s been! We’ve had Covid-19, major weather events, another downturn in log prices and we’ve had three fatalities - which means another three...
Read postFIONA'S BLOG: Mechanised harvesting has transformed some forestry operations, greatly reducing risks to manual fallers and breakers out. However, harvesting on steep slopes creates different risks. So, at the industry’s request, over...
Read postIt’s clear that Covid-19 is spreading, and more and more people around the country are going to be exposed to it. So, forestry businesses need to be ready for that. It’s time to make sure plans are in place to look after workers and to...
Read postFiona’s blog We’re progressing a number of changes to Safetree Certification aimed at making the scheme more robust and responsive to industry needs. These changes include moving to a new online system for registering information,...
Read postOnline Q&A session with Nurse Taumihau Teremoana. Thursday 14 October, 5.30pm – 6.15pm. Join via Zoom Feeling under pressure to get vaccinated but not sure you want to do it? Then join this free online question and answer session...
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