Logging industry

Clearly, some organizations require only a quick, easy, and creative safety program in order to achieve dramatic positive results. 

Some organizations have a very tense and negative environment due to the extremely dangerous nature of the work involved and therefore do not welcome peer observations. Such was the case with an organization in the logging industry. 

Loggers and fallers are responsible for cutting massive-sized trees and harvesting immense amounts of wood. They work in isolated wooded areas surrounded by extremely hazardous conditions and always work with a partner. An initial examination would suggest a peer-to-peer observation system would best fit an 

The safety representatives (employee volunteers) received more specific training concerning the rollout and maintenance of the process. First, the safety reps piloted the safety checklists and conducted several observations, thus allowing us to obtain baseline data. Next they were trained on how to graph the safety data and reinforce participation and improvements in safety. Due to the existing tense environment, any amount of participation was initially reinforced. Unlike division 1, division 2 experienced a great deal of resistance to the safety process. Only 2 of the 30 employees initially volunteered, but by the end of the first quarter, 28 employees had volunteered to assist with the safety process. The specific reinforcement techniques used by the division 2 safety representative are discussed in further detail below. 

Sometimes the best way to truly understand the impact a safety process has had on an organization s culture is through the actions and comments of its employees One employee who had been in the logging industry for 35 years was vehemently against the behavioral safety process. Until he conducted his first self-observation, he claimed there was no need for an observation system. Then he stated he was surprised at how much he had been doing unsafely. He became a safety 

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Old growth timber is the most valuable kind of timber for logging, and the ban shut down logging in the Northwest, put thousands of loggers out of work, and killed towns that depended on the logging industry. It added nearly 5,000 to the price of an average new home. 

MacFarlane, I. (1979). Injuries and death in forestry A NZ experience. Logging Industry Research Association Technical Release, 7(1), 1-4. 

The petroleum logging industry has been using resistivity measurements from stable platforms in open boreholes with increasing accuracy and efficiency since 1927 (Bouma et al., 1971). In situ resistivity measurements in the ocean bed were first carried out by Kermabon et al. (1969), who used a free-fall electrode-equipped probe system (Bouma et al., 1971). 

In the logging industry it refers to a standing tree that presents a hazard to employees due to certain conditions including, but not limited to, deterioration or physical damage to the root system, trunk, stem or Umbs, and the direction and lean of the tree. Danger Zone... 

It should be noted that the general industry regulations at 1910.266(e)(2) go into great detail on chain-saw requirements for the logging industry. These are not OSHA requirements for construction but may be best practice for chain-saw use and safety for your operations. In addition, the voluntary consensus standard from the American National Standards Institute, Safety Requirements for Gasoline-Powered Chain Saws (ANSI B175.1), may offer further guidance. 

The Boeing GH-47 Chinook, a medium-lift helicopter, is the largest-capacity aircraft used by the Army and Air Force for personnel and cargo transport. The Sikorsky GH-54 Sky Crane was the only heavy-lift helicopter in the inventory but was phased out at the end of the Vietnam War because it was too unwieldy. Variants of the Sky Crane are still used in the construction and logging industries. 

Sample Safety and Health Programs for the Logging Industry. Part of OSH As Logging Advisor eTool. 

Because this book is about lumbermaking, I won t try to cover all the details of the felling process, but I will recommend an excellent book that does. The Falier s and Bucker s Handbook, published by the Worker s Compensation Board of British Columbia (5225 Heather St.. Vancouver, B.C., Canada V5Z 3L8), is a modestly priced, logging-industry handbook that I find quite helpful. 

High-Temperature Cells. Specially designed hermetically sealed batteries have been developed for use at the high temperatures encountered, for example, by the oil-well logging industry, which uses down-hole tools operating to 150°C, the maximum temperature at which the Li/CuO cells can operate. 

A h) othetical 50 megawatt wood-fired power plant (similar to one already in service in Vermont) is proposed for construction in central Maine. It would burn wood waste produced by the logging industry. Assume the plant would consume 0.6 kg of dry wood (CH2O) per hour per kilowatt, thus consuming 30,000 kg of wood per hour. Assume that 0.1% of the wood s mass is released as fly ash at the 30 m effective stack height. 

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