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| Title: | A
Hantavirus Exposure Control Program for Employers and Workers  |
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| Order #: | BK74 | ||
| Description: | This booklet is intended for employers and workers who may come into contact with rodents, or rodent droppings, while on the job. It contains guidelines for employers on preventing hantavirus infections and putting in place an exposure control program (ECP) to minimize potential worker exposure to rodents, or rodent droppings, contaminated with hantavirus. It also contains sample work procedures that employers can adapt to their specific work situations. | ||
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| Title: | A Manual on Splicing | ||
| Order #: | BK31 | ||
| Description: | This manual contains simple how-to instructions for splicing on cable yarding systems. It also features information on creating the various splicing connections you need, along with special connections, such as Molly Hogans. Other subjects covered include special knots, general purpose knots, and threading procedures. This manual should be used as a training tool for the new worker and a reference guideline for the experienced splicer. | ||
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| Title: | BC Faller Training Standards, Part 1 (PDF 1.4mb) and Part 2 (PDF 1.2mb) | ||
| Order #: | BK96 | ||
| Description: | These pocket-size flip books update the old Fallers’ and Buckers’ Handbook. Useful for a new or experienced faller, forty sections provide information on clothing and personal protective equipment, protection from musculoskeletal injury, chainsaw maintenance, filing and handling information, crew transport, dangerous tree indicators, and procedures for dealing with various falling scenarios, alternative falling methods, limbing, adverse weather, bucking hazards and windthrow. | ||
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| Title: | Cable Yarding Systems Handbook | ||
| Order #: | BK49 | ||
| Description: | A comprehensive reference handbook for cable log-harvesting systems used in B.C. The safe work procedures detailed in this handbook are applicable to both coastal and interior logging operations. | ||
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| Title: | Chainsaw Safety | ||
| Order #: | PH50 | ||
| Description: | A pamphlet for all chainsaw users detailing the do's and don'ts of chainsaw operation. | ||
| (PDF 327kb) | |||
| Title: | Edger Safety | ||
| Order #: | PH10 | ||
| Description: | This pamphlet describes the hazards and precautions to be taken when operating edger saws in sawmills. | ||
| Title: | Final Report of the Forest Safety Task Force | ||
| Description: | A report and action plan to eliminate deaths and serious injuries in British Columbia's forests. | ||
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| Title: | Focus Report on Fatalities and Serious Injuries in Sawmills | ||
| Description: | This report reviews fatalities among sawmill workers, and amputations and traumatic injuries involving sawmill machines. Its purpose is to review selected information to identify key causes of death and traumatic injury in the sawmill industry, and to provide guidance in how such deaths and injuries can be prevented in the future. The two sections include "Fatalities in Sawmills: An Analysis of Causes and Costs" and "Worker Amputations and Traumatic Injuries Involving Sawmill Machines." | ||
| Title: | Grapple Yarder and Supersnorkel Handbook | ||
| Order #: | BK59 | ||
| Description: | A comprehensive instruction guide for this important mechanized segment of the logging industry. | ||
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| Title: | Helicopter Operations in the Forest Industry, Safe work practices for | ||
| Order #: | BK13 | ||
| Description: | A comprehensive guide to proper planning of helicopter logging and related operations. This booklet can help employers, supervisors, and workers develop safe work procedures. It includes general helicopter logging safety, cedar block flying, and selective logging by helicopter. Descriptive graphics include hand signals and ground-to-air recognition patterns. | ||
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| Title: | Introduction to Sawmills | ||
| Order #: | PH22 | ||
| Description: | This pamphlet is a companion piece to the WCB's 10-minute training video with the same title. The package is useful for new employees and as a brush-up on safety information for everyone working in the sawmill environment. | ||
| Title: | Logging Industry Fact Sheets | ||
| Description: |
This overview, presented in a series of fact sheets, is based on the preliminary analyses of the WCB's database of the logging industry, covering the years 1991-1995. The fact sheets contain information on employment in the logging industry, an overview of fatalities, a section on serious claims, and information on the industries in the larger logging subclass, where the predominance of accidents have occurred. All these fact sheets are included in the Logging Industry Focus Report (below). |
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| Title: | Preventing Tree Planting Injuries | ||
| Order #: | BK73 | ||
| Description: | This booklet provides information on ways to prevent tree planting injuries by using good planting techniques, maintaining good physical fitness, and choosing an appropriate shovel. | ||
| (PDF 469kb) Also available in French |
| Title: | Safe Work Practices for Utility Arborists: Tree-care work near power lines | ||
| Order #: | BK70 | ||
| Description: | This manual is designed for experienced workers doing utility line clearance work – certified utility arborists, apprentices, and their ground personnel. It covers general safety precautions, tools and equipment, safe work procedures, and first aid and rescue. | ||
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| Title: | Western Red Cedar Asthma | ||
| Order #: | PH51 | ||
| Description: | A pamphlet that explains what occupational asthma is. This pamphlet also explains the symptoms of red cedar asthma, how it is diagnosed, how it is treated, who is susceptible to it, and how it can be prevented. | ||
| (PDF 173kb) | |||
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