Free leaflets - Forestry
- Chainsaws at work
- Managing health and safety in forestry [PDF 275KB]
- Tree work accidents: An analysis of fatal and serious injuries
- PUWER 98 : how the regulations apply to agriculture and forestry [PDF 25KB]
Lifting and handling
- LOLER : how the regulations apply to forestry [PDF 30KB]
- LOLER : how the regulations apply to arboriculture [PDF 25KB]
Establishment
- 102 Pre-planting spraying of container-grown seedlings [PDF 65KB]
- 103 Planting [PDF 218KB]
- 104 Fencing [PDF 110KB]
- 105 Hand-held power posthole borer [PDF 130KB]
Maintenance
- 201 Hand tool weeding, brashing and pruning [PDF 70KB]
- 202 Application of pesticides by hand-held equipment [PDF 125KB]
- 203 Clearing saw [PDF 100KB]
- 204 Flails and mulchers in tree work [PDF 125KB]
Chainsaws
- 301 Using petrol-driven chainsaws [PDF 244KB]
- 302 Basic chainsaw felling and manual takedown [PDF 225KB]
- 303 Chainsaw snedding [PDF 160KB]
- 304 Chainsaw cross-cutting and manual stacking [PDF 479KB]
- 306 Chainsaw clearance of windblow [PDF 170KB]
- 307 Chainsaw felling of large trees [PDF 140KB]
- 308 Top-handled chainsaws [PDF 80KB]
- 310 Use of winches in directional felling and takedown [PDF 150KB]
Work off ground
- 401 Tree-climbing operations [PDF 349KB]
- 402 Aerial tree rescue [PDF 120KB]
- 403 Mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) for tree work [PDF 140KB]
- 404 Electrical utility arboriculture [PDF 152KB]
Extraction
- 501 Tractors units in tree work [PDF 115KB]
- 502 Extraction by skidder [PDF 180KB]
- 503 Extraction by forwarder [PDF 135KB]
- 504 Extraction by cable crane [PDF 130KB]
- 506 Extraction by horse [PDF 130KB]
Processing
- 601 Mobile circular saw bench [PDF 270KB]
- 602 Mobile peeling machine [PDF 115KB]
- 603 Mechanical harvesting [PDF 130KB]
- 604 Wood chippers [PDF 230KB]
- 605 Mechanical roadside processing [PDF 75KB]
- 606 Mobile stump grinders [PDF 105KB]
- 607 Firewood processors [PDF 86KB]
Vehicles
- 701 ATV quad bikes [PDF 194KB]
- 702 All-terrain vehicles [PDF 115KB]
- 703 Debogging and recovery of forestry machines [PDF 144KB]
- 704 Excavators in tree work [PDF 120KB]
- 705 Steep slope working in forestry [PDF 184KB]
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