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.

Ergonomics research in the southern United States
06 February 2014
This article discusses ergonomics research related to forest harvesting in the southeastern United States. The activities were sponsored by the United States Forest Service's Southern Forest Experiment Station between 1980 and 1992. Parallels in prevailing environmental conditions between the southern United States and areas of the humid tropics make many...
Ergonomics in forestry – The Chilean case
06 February 2014
This book summarizes some of the experiences acquired in Chile in more of 20 years of study to improve the working and living environment of forest workers. The studies undertaken in the first six years after the founding of the Laboratory of Ergonomics were devoted to understanding the physical characteristics’ of...
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