FRA Releases Updated OSHA Logging Training Video

RELEASE: October 29, 2010

CONTACT: Neil Ward (301/838-9385)
nward@forestresources.org

Rockville, MD — The Forest Resources Association has revised its most important logger safety training resource, the OSHA Logging Safety Training Video and Guide, to bring the scenes and equipment shown up-to-date and to make it more relevant to today's logging conditions.

The 76-minute video orients both supervisor and crew about the safety and administrative requirements stipulated in OSHA's Final Rule on Logging Operations, as revised and published on September 8, 1995. A grant from the National Timber Harvesting and Transportation Safety Foundation (THATS) provided resources to bring the video up-to-date.

"The new DVD's basic content hasn't changed from the original 1995 version," commented FRA President Richard Lewis. "We have updated the scenes to represent today's logging workplace better."

The video, accompanied by a 23-page Companion Booklet, or Guide, enables a logging employer to conduct a series of four interactive sessions for logging personnel. The four units cover:

* General Requirements
* Requirements for Machine Operations
* Chain Saw Operator Requirements
* Requirements for Vehicle Operations

The Companion Booklet also provides important information about the employer's obligations for providing training and for interpreting the OSHA Logging Standard, and about the types of exceptional situations in which employer discretion in interpreting the Standard is allowable.

FRA members may order the OSHA Logging Safety Training Video (DVD format) with Guide at $50 apiece, or $100 apiece for non-members. Please enclose payment with order, checks payable to "FRA"; charge orders may be faxed to 301/838-9481. Direct orders to Forest Resources Association Inc., 600 Jefferson Plaza, Suite 350, Rockville, MD 20852, and refer to stock number 10-A-4.

The Forest Resources Association Inc. is a nonprofit trade association concerned with the safe, efficient, and sustainable harvest of forest products and their transport from woods to mill. FRA represents wood consumers, independent logging contractors, and wood dealers, as well as businesses providing products and services to the forest resource-based industries.