Addressing these hazards and risks should receive the utmost priority. Safety must be first in all logging activities. Investing in safety pays off. Safe timber harvesting operations yield improved worker attitudes, safe work habits, fewer injuries, increased production, lower operating costs, and greater profitability. Nothing a logger or a logger's employees do is so important that they should risk life and limb for it.
Safety really means taking the time and making the effort to do the job correctly.
Safety is nothing more, in the end, than good, common sense. Only the people on the job, the boss and the crew, can make it safe. Safety Alerts A continuously updated set of analyses of timber harvesting accidents. FRA Safety Materials Information on video-based safety training programs, handbooks, and brochures available from the Forest Resources Association.