Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Toolbox

Occupational Health and Safety in Forestry

The Occupational Health and Safety in Forestry Module is aimed at all forest workers, particularly forest managers and supervisors. It provides basic and more detailed information on the dangers to human health and safety posed by some forest activities and identifies measures that can be taken to mitigate these.

The module also provides links to relevant tools and cases.

This module was developed with the kind collaboration of the following people and/or institutions:

Initiator(s): Jonas Cedergren - FAO, Forestry Department

Contributor(s): Cesar Sabogal - FAO, Forestry Department

This module was revised in 2018 to strengthen gender considerations.

Initiator(s): Gender Team in Forestry

Reviewer(s): Jonas Cedergren - FAO, Forestry Department