Forest Operations - Approved Code of Practice for Safety and Health in
Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Purpose
- 1.2 Scope and Application
- 1.3 Interpretation
- 2 General Safety
- 2.1 Emergencies
- 2.2 First Aid
- 2.3 All persons in the forest
- 2.4 Principals
- 2.5 Employers
- 2.6 Employees
- 2.7 Visitors
- 2.8 Hazard management
- 2.9 Worker health
- 2.10 Vehicles transporting workers
- 2.11 Driving
- 2.12 Signage and temporary traffic control
- 2.13 Working at heights
- 2.14 Working around ‘live’ power lines
- 3 Personal Protective Equipment
- 3.1 General health
- 3.2 High-visibility clothing
- 3.3 Leg protection
- 3.4 Safety footwear
- 3.5 Safety helmets
- 3.6 Hearing protection
- 3.7 Eye protection
- 3.8 Gloves
- 3.9 Fall restraints for silviculture, harvesting and seed collection
- 3.10 Respiratory protective devices
- 3.11 Chemical handling
- 4 Tools and Equipment
- 4.1 General
- 4.2 Chainsaws
- 4.3 Brushcutters
- 4.4 Ladders
- 4.5 Spraying
- 4.6 Pruning
- 4.7 Steps
- 4.8 Stirrups
- 5 Wire Rope
- 5.1 General
- 6 Mobile Plant
- 6.1 General
- 6.2 Using mobile plant
- 6.3 Mechanised processors
- 6.4 Winch-assisted harvesting on steep slopes
- 6.5 Maintaining mobile plant
- 6.6 Shifting mobile plant
- 6.7 Using all-terrain vehicles
- 6.8 Using power-operated elevating work platforms
- 6.9 Gravity rolling
- 7 Safety at Controlled Fires and Burnoffs
- 7.1 Attending fires
- 7.2 PPE
- 7.3 Personal safety
- 7.4 Use of hand burners
- 7.5 Vehicles at fires
- 8 Road and Landing Construction and Earthworks
- 8.1 Roads
- 8.2 Bridges
- 8.3 Landings
- 8.4 Earthworks
- 9 Hazardous Substances
- 9.1 General
- 9.2 Agrichemicals
- 9.3 Fuel and oil transport
- 9.4 Fuel and oil storage and use
- 9.5 Emergency response
- 9.6 Explosives
- 10 Establishment and Silviculture
- 10.1 General
- 10.2 Planting
- 10.3 Manual fertilising
- 10.4 Pruning
- 10.5 Thinning to waste
- 10.6 Seed collection
- 11 Tree Felling
- 11.1 General
- 11.2 Escape routes
- 11.3 Felling aids
- 11.4 Safety zones – two tree length rule
- 11.5 Felling cuts
- 11.6 Hung-up and cut-up trees
- 11.7 Tree driving
- 11.8 Mobile plant assisted felling – ground based
- 11.9 Mobile plant assisted felling – cable harvesting
- 11.10 Tree jacks
- 11.11 Wind throw
- 11.12 Trimming
- 12 Breaking Out
- 12.1 Ground-based extraction
- 12.2 Cable harvesting
- 13 Work on Landings
- 13.1 General
- 13.2 Manual processing
- 13.3 Mobile plant on landings
- 14 Cable Harvesting
- 14.1 General
- 14.2 Guylines
- 14.3 Anchors
- 14.4 Rigging gear
- 14.5 Skylines
- 14.6 Mobile anchors
- 14.7 Tailspars
- 14.8 Yarder operation
- 14.9 Poleman
- 15 Helicopter Logging
- Helicopter Operations.
- Rules For Helicopter Logging.
- 15.2 General
- 15.3 Rigging
- 15.4 Integration of ground and flight activities
- 15.5 Communication
- 15.6 Breaking out (Hookers)
- 15.7 Abort crews
- 15.8 Visitors
- 16 Loading and Unloading
- 16.1 Responsibilities
- 16.2 Trailer lifting
- 16.3 Loading operation
- 16.4 Loading zone
- 16.5 Load placement
- 16.6 Self-loading trucks
- 16.7 Unloading
- 17 Transport
- 17.1 Vehicles
- 17.2 Cab guards
- 17.3 Sawdust, woodchips and waste products
- 17.4 Securing loads on logging transport
- 17.5 Preparing for unloading
- Appendix 1: Definitions
- Appendix 2: Examples of Hazard Information
- Appendix 3: Legislative Framework
- 1. A summary of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992
- 2. Regulations
- 3. Approved Codes of Practice (Section 20)
- 4. Employers’ Duties (Section 6)
- 5. Hazard Management (Sections 7 to 10)
- 6. Identifying Hazards
- 7. Controlling a hazard – the hierarchy of controls
- 8. Monitoring a hazard
- 9. Employees and Health and Safety Representatives (Section 12)
- 10. Training and Supervision of Employees (Section 13)
- 11. Responsibility for Employees’ Work Activities (Section 15)
- 12. Persons in Control of a Place of Work (Section 16)
- 13. Duties of the Self-Employed (Section 17)
- 14. Duties of Principals (Section 18)
- 15. Hirers, sellers and suppliers of plant (Section 18A)
- 16. Duties of Employees (Section 19)
- 17. Deemed Employees
- 18. Opportunities for Employee Participation (Part 2A)
- 19. Notification of particular hazardous works (Section 23 of the Regulations)
- 20. Accidents, Serious Harm and Notification (Sections 25 and 26)
- 21. Offences likely to cause serious harm – Involving Knowledge (Section 49)
- Appendix 4: Reference Guide
