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Dangerous occurrences during Forestry practices – Assessement and Documentation
Dangerous occurrences during Forestry practices – Assessement and Documentation
Employers are required to take the corresponding measures to improve the safety and health protection of their employees. European Council Directive 89/391 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work (outline directive) states that employers must evaluate the hazards that arise from company operations and take any preventive measures required.
A range of auxiliary materials is available to enterprises carrying out forestry work:
- Firstly, various checklists on individual, clearly separate activities or items of equipment
- www.suva.ch/gefahrenermittlung(The link will open in a new window) (selection of checklists and publications by business branch)
- www.suva.ch/checklisten(The link will open in a new window) (search with the help of key words)
(Suva checklists and publications are usually available in French, German and Italian)
- Secondly, the catalogues “Dangerous occurrences during Forestry practices – Assessment and Documentation”
Main Work Processes with Dangerous Occurrences
- General Information
- Creating Stands
- Climbing trees to harvest seeds and branches (577 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Manual planting (279 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Motorized/manual planting (274 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Mechanized planting (376 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Planting using an excavator (259 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Building fences (227 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Maintaining and Protecting the Forest
- Caring for cultures and young stands with the brush cutter (268 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Pruning using a hand saw (from a ladder) (273 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Pruning with pole saw (from the ground) (192 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Harvesting Wood
- Marking trees (202 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Harvesting wood with a chain saw (395 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Harvesting wood in natural regeneration stands (4.0 MB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Harvesting wood from among dead wood (3.3 MB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Harvesting wood using a cable skidder (602 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Partially mechanized wood harvesting (271 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Mechanized wood harvesting (222 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Using a tower yarder - Setup (461 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Using a tower yarder – Sorting by species (277 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Using a tower yarder – Combined yarder/processor (348 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Producing wood chips (940 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Hunting
- Hunting alone (263 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Hunting in a group (236 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Slaughtering game (255 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Building hunting facilities (269 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
Documenting Dangerous Occurrences, Protection Objectives and Measures
- General Information (233 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Creating Stands (163 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Maintaining and Protecting the Forest (146 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Harvesting wood (290 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Hunting (156 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
Templates
- Pictograms (1.5 MB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Documenting dangerous occurrences, protecting objectives and measures (79 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Main work processes with dangerous occurrences (45 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
- Follow-up of work devices submitted for review (34 KB)(The link will open in a new window; This document is not barrier-free.)
