2017 MILESTONES
Certification
Safety Culture
Risk Management
Leadership
Delivering to the Sector
- Safetree Contractor Certification: Launched this certification scheme for contractors.
- Safetree Professional Forestry Worker Certification: 130 workers awarded certification.
Safety Culture
- Growing our Safety Culture: Successfully piloted this tool to engage workers in health and safety.
Risk Management
- Risk management: Published a guide on How to Manage Forestry Risks.
- Fatality data: Began publishing WorkSafe information on forestry fatalities.
- Health: Piloted an initiative to address body stressing injuries in silviculture.
- Learning Reviews: Published Alerts and guidance using this investigation technique.
Leadership
- Senior leadership: Ran a seminar for forestry leaders on improving contractor safety.
- Frontline leadership: Developed a Frontline Leadership Training programme to be piloted in 2018.
Delivering to the Sector
- Safetree website: Revamped this website, which is run by FISC, to make resources easier to find.
- Forest Industry Safety Summit: Presented to 380 attendees on FISC’s work. Also presented four workshops on FISC initiatives.
- Regional Workshops and Hui: Held 17 regional workshops on key FISC initiatives attended by about 600 people. Held two hui in Gisborne attended by 120, in response to fatalities and injuries in the region.