Safety and Health Research on Steep Slope Logging in the Pacific Northwest

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• Personal Author:
  Belart, Francisca ; Chung, Woodam ; Crawford, Robert ; Cushing, Tamara ; Green, Preston ; Kincl, Laurel ; Leshchinsky, Ben ; Morrissette, Brett ; Sessions, John ; Wimer, Jeff ; Belart, Francisca ; Chung, Woodam ; Crawford, Robert ; Cushing, Tamara ; Green, Preston ; Kincl, Laurel ; Leshchinsky, Ben ; Morrissette, Brett ; Sessions, John ; Wimer, Jeff
• Description:
  Logging workers felling trees and cable yarding on steep slopes suffer accident rates greater than mechanized logging workers. Worldwide efforts to use tethered logging machines to fell, pile and transport trees have shown potential for feasible, safer and more productive operations. A team of researchers at Oregon State University are studying systems to improve safety on steep slopes under a project funded by the National Institutes of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Systems within the study include: Conventional Manual Timber Falling, Choker Setting and Yarding; Feller-Buncher with Choker Setting and Yarding; Feller-Buncher with Shovel Logging; Feller-Buncher with Mechanized Grapple Yarding; Feller-Buncher with Grapple Skidder; and Harvester with Forwarder. Operators are studied without the tether and on steep slopes using a tether. Safety assessments among the systems are compared along with the effects on the physiology of the operators. Current Forest Activities Code in Oregon permit tethered steep slope operations in excess of 50% slopes only using a research variance that provides information to regulators with the basis for drafting permanent safety regulations. A number of other important questions are considered in the research effort over the three-year span of the research. The research is described and some results to date are described. Slides from the presentation are available here: https://www.formec.org/images/proceedings/2017/B4/B44_Garland_et_al.pdf. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Forestry Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Steep Slopes; Logging; Safety Measurement; Operator Effects Logging Industry; Forestry; Equipment Operation; Machinery; Safety Engineering; Equipment Operators; Safety Monitoring;
• Publisher:
  University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Proceedings ; Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  45 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20060737
• Citation:
  Abstracts and Proceedings of the 50th Symposium on Forestry Mechanization (FORMEC): Innovating the competitive edge: From research to impact in the forest value chain, September 25-29, 2017, Brasov, Romania. Vienna, Austria: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, 2017 Sep; :83
• Email:
  johngarland49@gmail.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing ; Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  Oregon State University - Corvallis
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20150901
• Source Full Name:
  Abstracts and Proceedings of the 50th Symposium on Forestry Mechanization (FORMEC): Innovating the competitive edge: From research to impact in the forest value chain, September 25-29, 2017, Brasov, Romania
• End Date:
  20180831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:dd7dd5a895348d8f3e964e20dc88a7379ee9a72894e4594d041fec05fba56c567ef1298b3cfc942bf314544cba24ad7ef04dfc5781bc5da37867f8ba6a4d24f1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/231596/cdc_231596_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.83 MB ]