Safety
Emergency Response and Rescue Guidelines for Remote Silviculture Camps
BC Safe Silviculture Work Plan For 2005 – 2007
This draft three-year Work Plan is a planning tool intended to guide the Western Silviculture Contractors’ Association (WSCA) Board of Directors in meeting the broad objectives of the BC Safe Silviculture Project. The Project is intended to reduce silviculture workplace accidents and injuries and increase the level of compliance and competency around wellness, health and … Read more
BC Safe Silviculture Project Launched
The BC Forest Safety Council and the Western Silvicultural Contractors Association have announced a three year project to reduce injuries and accidents and improve workplace safety and employment practices in the BC silviculture industry. The announcement made at the WSCA annual conference in Prince George in January will include auditing and pre-qualifying firms and training … Read more
Faller Certification Program Unveiled
Industry and WCB to Form B.C. Forest Safety Council This Summer
Are Some Silvicultural Camps That Bad?
A private consultant’s “exploratory study” of silvicultural camps reveals lackings in the quality of life provided for in all six camps surveyed. Is there a larger trend here? And if so should camps be certified to minimum standards to avoid being hazards to health and safety as the study suggests? Read more
Driver Charged in Alberta Treeplanting Bus Accident
The driver of a treeplanting bus that rolled off the road east of Jasper, Alberta on the May long weekend, seriously injuring three of its 17 passengers, has been charged under the Traffic Safety Act of Alberta. Three treeplanters were seriously injured. None of the injuries are life-threatening. Read more
FISA Provides Funding to Improve Treeplanting Health
Study Decries Silvicultural Camp Conditions
An exploratory study by an independent consulting firm specializing in remote work camps has found British Columbia silviculture camps “extremely poor” in terms of “quality of life” including quality of supervision, food, sleeping accommodation, pride in work, trust in management and trust between workers. Read more