OHS requirements: | are to be in accordance with applicable federal, state or territory legislation and regulations, and organisational safety policies and procedures, and may include: PPE and clothing safety equipment first aid equipment firefighting equipment hazard and risk control fatigue management appropriate signage elimination of hazardous materials and substances safe forest practices, including required actions relating to forest fire techniques for manual handling, including shifting, lifting and carrying |
Legislative requirements: | are to be in accordance with applicable federal, state or territory legislation, regulations, certification requirements and codes of practice and may include: award and organisational agreements industrial relations Australian standards confidentiality and privacy OHS the environment native vegetation equal employment opportunity anti-discrimination relevant industry codes of practice duty of care |
Organisational requirements may include: | legal compliance documentation organisational and site guidelines policies and procedures relating to own role and responsibility procedural manuals quality and continuous improvement processes and standards OHS, emergency and evacuation procedures ethical standards recording and reporting requirements equipment use, maintenance and storage requirements environmental management requirements, including waste disposal, recycling and re-use guidelines |
Trees typical to the scope of this unit may include the following characteristics: | lean and weight distribution that can be assessed and readily adapted to falling direction with the use of wedges and/or control with hinge-wood various dimensions relative to local forest size distribution limited visible damage and/or defect species prone to free splitting and adverse reactions during felling a crown that contains dead or broken material, entanglement or malformation and is visible for assessment and monitoring single or multi-stems diameter of tree greater than chainsaw bar length grown on terrain and slope that can add complexity to the operation |
Environmental protection measures may include action to limit the impact to: | native vegetation soil and water heritage and archeological artefacts flora and fauna geomorphologic features landscape external site pollution recreational opportunities regeneration opportunities |
Harvesting plan: | is a formal document that outlines the operational requirements of the work site, which may include: extraction plan traffic plan environmental requirements restricted areas identified hazards harvesting prescription product volumes while site plan document may be named differently between jurisdictions and regions, its common terms may include: coupe plan forest practices plan site or logging plan |
Job requirements may include: | information and instructions relevant to tree-felling operations, including: processing location details trees to be felled and retained general environmental requirements site plan and environmental features |
Appropriate personnel may include: | supervisors clients colleagues managers |
Log extraction methods may include: | skidding forwarding using cable shovel logging |
Requirements for product quality may include: | product specifications stump shatter butt splitting log breakage stump height |
Communication may include: | verbal and non-verbal language hand or other agreed signals eye contact with other operators or personnel active listening and questioning to clarify and confirm understanding electronic communication devices |
Environmental conditions may relate to: | ground growth canopy general forest lean ground slope ground hazards wind speed and direction |
Hazards may include: | uneven and unstable terrain unsafe trees fires overhead and underground services excavations traffic structures hazardous materials insects and animals other personnel and machinery |
Trees considered outside own skill levelinclude: | trees that contain hazards and are deemed unsafe trees that are considered to be in the advanced category trees where cuts made may lead to loss of control of tree in felling |
Tools and equipment may include: | warning signs chainsaw and components PPE and clothing first aid equipment maintenance requirements support tools |
Cutting techniques: | will include: scarf cutting back cutting to provide hinge-wood and maintain control of tree and may include: use of wedges to assist in controlling falling direction |