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JOB TITLE: Falling Safety Advisor
REPORTS TO: Director, Safety Services
PURPOSE: To manage and provide oversight for all the Council’s falling programs, including development and implementation of programs, policies, training and quality assurance.
Specific Accountabilities Include: read more »
JOB TITLE: Safety Audit Advisor
REPORTS TO: Director, Safety Services
PURPOSE: To support all aspects of the Certificate of Recognition (COR) and SAFE Companies Program with the goal of reducing injuries and fatalities in the workplace.
Specific Accountabilities Include: read more »
This year’s free conference addresses how woodlands and wood products manufacturing operations can improve their business success by reducing health and safety risks. read more »
Our mission is to eliminate all fatalities and serious injuries in the forest sector.
The supervisors' course....is one step towards ensuring standards are adhered to - not just by the fallers, but by the industry.
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A number of recent reports highlight the risk of incidents involving mobile equipment upsets or “flop-overs.” In some cases, what might have seemed relatively minor events turned serious when equipment operators couldn’t get out of their machine to safety.
There is an ongoing safety risk when vehicles pass graders while they are working. The graders could encounter tough cutting and shift sideways, an unnoticed rock could roll off the blade into the path of a vehicle, or the grader operator could swerve to pick up scattered rocks and not notice a passing vehicle
A piece of steel shrapnel hit a worker in the upper thigh, narrowly missing the femoral artery, resulting in hospitalization and surgery to repair the damage and remove the shrapnel. The worker was replacing a track link on an excavator and used a sledge hammer to hit the pin. A shard chipped off the pin. When hardened steel is struck with another steel tool there
