After a horror year of workplace fatalities in 2013, New Zealand’s forest industry performed superbly in 2014, both in terms of safety and wood production. Source: Scoop NZ, Timberbiz
The credit for the dramatic turnaround in safety performance has to go to the people on the forest floor.
As part of the sweeping safety reform in forestry workplaces, the Forest Industry Engineering Association (FIEA) is bringing international safety experts to New Zealand next week for an industry-wide summit.
At this event, forest safety leaders and forest company CEOs will have access to the best safety thinkers in the business globally.
“Using international thought leaders in forest safety is vital for bringing change to our local forestry workplaces. Locally, industry leaders have been well connected to them. So a number of significant changes are set to be announced beginning next week at our summit,” summit spokesman John Stulen said:
“Major safety interventions are set to be launched for forestry in coming days and weeks.
“The Independent Forest Safety Review set the stage for a huge ‘Agenda for Change’ and it is set to be announced at the summit.”
On 3-4th March, the FIEA Forest Industry Safety Summit for Rotorua will bring three big safety leaders for forestry.
Steven Falk from Canada. Ivan Pupulidy of the US Forest Service and Reynold Hert of the British Columbia Forest Safety Council in Canada.
Local practitioners will support the three keynote speakers.
More than 400 delegates have already registered to attend the conference series running in Rotorua on 3-4th March and Melbourne on 10-11th March.
For more information visit www.forestsafety2015.com
