May 2012

When your company registered for SAFE Companies, either you or an employee of your company attended the Small Employer Occupational Health & Safety Training (SEOHS) 2-day training course. This training made the person who took the course the company’s internal ‘auditor’. The WorkSafeBC Certificate of Recognition program requires auditors to complete seven (7) hours of refresher training every three years to maintain the quality and currency of their skills and knowledge to be eligible for the WSBC COR rebate.

Refresher training focuses on helping to improve safety management within your company, as well as reviewing the audit submission process and relevant updates.  read more »

BC Forest Safety Council Refresher Training for Individual Owner Operators (IOO)

May 2012 When your company registered for SAFE Companies, you attended the Individual Owner Operator (IOO) training course. This made you the company’s internal ‘auditor’. The WorkSafeBC (WSBC) Certificate of Recognition program requires auditors to complete four (4) hours of refresher training every three years to maintain the quality and currency of their skills and knowledge to be eligible for the WSBC COR rebate. Refresher training focuses on helping to improve safety management within your company, as well as reviewing the audit submission process and relevant updates.  read more » Sawmills – Combustible Dust Cleanup Safety Considerations 1. The attached information has been assembled by industry in response to the recent explosions at two north interior sawmills. 2. Wood dust under the right concentrations, right properties and location can become explosive with an ignition source. 3. This information is a compilation of procedures and practices aimed at ensuring mills safely cleanup wood dust.  read more » 123456789…next ›last » Mission Statement Our mission is to eliminate all fatalities and serious injuries in the forest sector. ForestQuotes Change can only happen in our industry when people stand up for safety and become advocates for a different forestry future. Reynold Hert, BC Forest Safety Council CEO Many of our documents for download use Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can download it for free by clicking the icon below.   Forest Safety News Safety Alerts TruckSafe Rumblings                           Click here to subscribe to one of our free email newsletters!   Most Recent Safety Alerts Buncher slides down slippery slope, operator bruised Location:  Canfor Woodlands Operations (Prince George region) Details of Incident:  A buncher operator was following the “Steep Slope Falling Procedures” he was provided but was having trouble bunching a steep (~30%) section of the block. The operator had already left a portion of the block un-bunched due to the steeper slopes he had encountered. Key locked in work vehicle while parked at remote site Location:  near Gold River (northern Vancouver Island) Details of Incident:  Upon returning from the cutblock, a worker realized that the only key to the truck had been locked inside the vehicle. The truck’s location had no cell reception and no one was picking up on the radio (apparently there was no radio contact in the area). The rear window of the truck had to be broken with a pulaski in order to gain entry to the vehicle. Safety Alert of the Month - April 2012 - Break up – Now is not the time to be complacent Location:  British Columbia Details of Incident:  Top | Privacy Statement | Terms and Conditions | Feedback | Site Credits | Copyright © 2008-2012 BC Forest Safety Council. All rights reserved. Are you seeing this? If you are not using a "low-level" device (such as a cell phone, PDA, screen reader, etc.) you may want to enable JavaScript in your web browser.