Logging safety in forest management education

Details

• Personal Author:
  Fosbroke DE ; Meyers JR
• Description:
  The importance of teaching occupational safety and health to forest management students was described and a proposal for incorporating safety issues into existing forestry courses is advocated. Worker safety concepts should be integrated into forest management studies because logging has long been a dangerous industry with high work related fatalities; forest management decisions directly impact logging safety; and professional foresters are morally and ethically bound to ensure they make decisions that do not jeopardize the safety of others by the Code of Ethics established by the Society of American Foresters. When 45 professional degree programs in forest management were surveyed, the authors found that only 17 programs referenced any safety concepts within their course syllabi, which was limited to the harvesting course. The authors conclude that forest management programs need to make students aware of the safety record of the logging, sawmill, and paper industries; the existence of safety regulations, standards, and policies; the identification and control of hazards; management safety; impact of safety programs on insurance premiums; impact of injuries on operating costs and worker morale; and the influence of management decisions on worker safety. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Forestry Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Forestry-workers Logging-workers Lumber-industry Occupational-safety-programs Safety-measures Safety-practices
• Publisher:
  U.S. Department of Agriculture
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  442-453
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00232728
• Citation:
  Proceedings, 10th central hardwood forest conference, Morgantown, West Virginia, March 5-8, 1995, general technical report NE-197. Gottschalk KW, Fosbroke SL, eds. Radnor, PA; Gottschalk 1995 Mar; :442-453
• Editor(s):
  Gottschalk KW; Fosbroke SL
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1995
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings, 10th central hardwood forest conference, Morgantown, West Virginia, March 5-8, 1995, general technical report NE-197
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/205034/cdc_205034_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.94 MB ]