Fallers Logging Safety

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)
• Description:
  This logging safety manual is intended to help train new fallers. Working as a faller is the most dangerous job in Oregon, and safety training is vital. This manual may help both trainers and trainees to cover safety issues completely, and remember key points to bring down a tree safely every time. Written materials, though, cannot replace hands-on training in the field with an experienced faller. Be sure to train before you work in the woods. Safety training is generally available directly from employers in the logging industry. Additional training is available from the Student Logging Training Program, for college students, in the Forest Engineering Department at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Training Program Manager Jeff Wimer developed the Five-step Faller Safety Plan featured in this manual. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Forestry Mortality Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Fall-protection Forestry-workers Injury-prevention Logging-workers Lumber-industry-workers Mortality-data Mortality-rates Safety-education Training Traumatic-injuries

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• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Publisher:
  Oregon Health and Science University
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Handbooks
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-52
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039314
• Citation:
  Portland, OR: Oregon Health and Science University, Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation, 2007 Apr; :1-52
• Contact Point Address:
  Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OR-FACE) Program, Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park, L606, Portland, OR 97239-3098
• Email:
  orface@ohsu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2007
• Performing Organization:
  Oregon Health and Science University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040901
• Source Full Name:
  Fallers logging safety
• End Date:
  20060831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:64dd0af8c79bf671e7908fa009d38876bcfa463a17e3670652956b70e2218370a06b02ccbc507eb529c9bced2e8e32ad87249e646bf899ee56ecfe25a86fc1f3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/228639/cdc_228639_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.21 MB ]