These resources are specifically designed for people in forestry. Use the filters to help find the topic or resource type you’re looking for.
A guide to identifying and managing critical risks at a forestry worksite.
Industry stories and resources on improving worker involvement in H&S
Industry stories and other resources to help protect people from the risks of drugs and alcohol impairment at work.
These resources include a template for running a tailgate meeting and Talking topic cards created for use in tailgate meetings, which cover more than 30 common forestry risks.
Five health cards to complement Talking topic cards, created for use in tailgate meetings.
Forestry businesses share their experiences.
Using tree-jacking to fell trees in difficult places like fence-lines.
Contractor Vincent Yeoman has created automatic barrier arms to control site access.
What operator Johnson Peri thinks of his remote controlled T-Winch.
What contractor Zane Knight thinks of his new remote controlled T-Winch.
Clearing trees from an archeologically significant site in the Wairarapa.
An assessment tool to help keep tree fallers’ skills sharp.
An overview of how to manage health and safety in forestry under the law.
Learn how to manage the impact of work on health, and health on work, at the forestry worksite.
A powerpoint presentation to use at safe start-up meetings.
The ACoP for working in the forestry industry.
Help to manage visitor safety at your worksite.
This programme helps you build a culture that supports good health and safety. See information about the programme, and some of the resources used in it.
Procedures to follow when working alone.
A guide to help you plan a safe operation under the law.
A checklist to help tree fallers stay safe.
A guide to identifying and managing fatigue in your crew.
A form to help you create your emergency plan.
A form to record behavioural observations for tree fallers.
A form to use when visiting worksites to ensure safety and efficiency.
A form to help record on-the-job training.
Help to assess and manage risks on steep slopes.
Forms to help you plan and design a safe skid site.
A form to help you create a shovel plan.
A poster reminding workers about the two tree lengths rule when felling.
See examples of breaking out plans.
A guide to holding a safe and effective daily tailgate meeting.
A poster reminding about the dangers of fatigue.
A guide to managing overlapping responsibilities under the law once work has started.
A short factsheet about how to conduct an accident investigation.
See a quarterly snapshot of forestry’s health and safety performance.
Improving crew culture and frontline leadership is benefiting Hancock Forest Management NZ.
A tool to help assess the competency of breaker outs.
Forms to help plan and manage traffic around forestry worksites.
Section 18 of the ACoP, clarifying changes to the roles and responsibilities of principals and contractors.
A form to help manage slash on a forestry worksite.
Resources for crew and companies outlining Safetree certification for workers.
A form to keep track of the day’s operations.
A guide to planning work when there will be overlapping responsibilities.
See plans for a five and seven guy hauler set up.
Plans to help set up a swing yarder.
Find useful links to other forestry associated websites.
A link to the Mental Health Foundation website.
ACC and WorkSafe safety tools.
A link to the New Zealand Institute of Forestry’s website.
Find facts, advice, ideas and resources to take action to improve wellbeing in the workplace.
Direct links to forestry-related areas on the WorkSafe websites.
A link to the FICA website for contractors.
The NZFOA represents the owners of our commercial plantation forests.
A short video covering how to hold an effective tailgate meeting.
A short video covering how to tree drive safely if a tree gets hung up.
A short video covering how to set the day’s SRP.
A short video covering the rules around using machine assistance in felling.
A short video about what to do during upset conditions.
An animated video covering how to keep worksite visitors safe.
See how Port Blakely (formerly Blakely Pacific) is improving its safety culture.
A link to Open Minds, a Mental Health Foundation resource.
This guide explaining the Safetree certification process, and what it covers.
Help to understand that’s really happening on site with health and safety.
Learn how Fulton Hogan manages its critical risks.
A presentation about “failing safely”, protecting workers from the consequences of errors.
Help for forestry businesses to do Learning Reviews, a new way to review and learn from incidents.
Learn how Ocean View Logging improved health and safety through engineering solutions.
Find resources about Safetree contractor certification.
A poster illustrating the 12 essential elements in building a safety culture.
Use these resources to help you learn from any incidents.
FISC works to reduce serious harm and death in New Zealand’s forests.
Read the top safety tips from seven Canadian fallers, gathered through 280 collective years’ experience.
What to expect from WorkSafe, and services for victims and their families.
See how getting the commercial terms right and respecting contractors’ expertise helped Transpower improve health and safety among its tower painting contractors.
Advice on how loader operators, truck drivers, harvest and cartage contractors can work to improve load security.
A collection of Tailgate Talking Topic cards those in small-scale forestry will find useful.
See how HFMNZ trialled a new approach to audits that involves learning from what goes right at work every day.
A collection of Tailgate Talking Topic cards particularly relating to silviculture work.
A guide for small scale forest owners from Farm Forestry New Zealand.
A WorkSafe guide to managing a small scale harvest.
A two-page WorkSafe factsheet covering what to consider before harvesting a small forest.
A best practice guideline for Temporary Traffic Control on Private Forest Roads.
Read how learning to run a more efficient business helped Stubbs Contractors improve health and safety and win a business award.
See guidance and a risk management form for working safety around powerlines.
A summary of the key health risks among forestry workers
A form companies and health professionals can use to monitor a worker’s health
Safetree’s leadership workshops support the development of people in forestry, and help businesses improve team performance.
See guidance on dealing with incidents that have to be notified to WorkSafe, such as work-related deaths, or serious injuries and illnesses.
Watch this inspiring video on how Wade Brunt improved his own wellbeing and that of his fellow Gisborne forestry workers.
Resources to support safe driving in forestry.
Watch these videos about how silviculture crews add value to forestry.
Find out how the KYND Wellness App can help forestry people stay physically and mentall well.
Presentations from the Safetree Conference 2022.
A collection of factsheets on managing health and safety risks faced by Yarder Tower Inspectors.
Use this logbook to track the time you spend manually felling trees.
Guidance produced for the Covid alert levels. This has now been replaced by guidance on the Covid ‘traffic light framework’.
Resources and organisations to support mental health and wellbeing
Info on counselling services for workers
Pride Forestry on crew wellbeing and dealing with a crew suicide.
Best Practice Guide for working with helicopters in forestry.
Best Practice Guide to Mechanised Harvesting.
Best Practice Guide to tree-planting.
Best Practice Guide to manual log-making and processing.
Best Practice Guide for mobile plant.
Best Practice Guide to fire-fighting and controlled burn-offs.
Best Practice Guide to Chainsaw Use.
Best Practice Guide to cable logging.
Best Practice Guide to silviculture pruning.
Best Practice Guide to breaking-out.
Best Practice Guide to transport in forestry.
Best Practice Guide to traffic control on private roads.
Best Practice Guide to ground-based logging.
Best Practice Guide to Personal Protective Equipment.
Best Practice Guidelines for tree-felling.
Key things to know when working with forestry contractors
KTM Silviculture’s experience employing workers from Fiji.
Whānau Days help Te Waa Logging engage with the local community.
Mike Hurring’s training school for forestry.
Benefits of involving workers in its hauler refit.
City Forests & Gamble Forest Harvesting.
Brand Logging is one of forestry’s family businesses.
Mike Hurring Logging’s diesel-electric harvester
How Forestry Solutions Group helps workers.
How Stirling Logging helps workers recover from addiction.
How Stirling Logging looks after its workers.
FPS on the benefits of a H&S Committee.