Instruction on labor protection for an employee engaged in logging and forestry work, general requirements for labor protection

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Instruction on labor protection for an employee engaged in logging and forestry work, general requirements for labor protection

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General labor protection requirements

1. Persons at least 18 years of age who have passed a medical examination and are deemed fit to perform felling, hauling and loading timber, cutting branches, bucking whips, and clearing snow around trees may be allowed to logging work. It is not allowed to use the labor of women for felling trees with motor and hand tools, for loading and stacking round timber by hand.

2. Workers who have been instructed, trained and tested in labor protection, fire safety, first aid and who have an appropriate certificate are allowed to perform logging operations.

3. Within the time limits established by the organization, each employee must be instructed in labor protection and trained according to a 10-hour program. When transferring from one workplace to another, an extraordinary briefing should be carried out within the brigade. An appropriate entry is made in the certificate about the briefings and training conducted.

4. Workers who combine professions (limber - choker, feller - delimber, etc.) must be trained in safe working methods and be instructed in labor protection at all work performed.

5. Each employee is obliged to comply with the internal labor regulations, observe the work and rest regimes established in the organization.

6. Workers who have undergone special training and have a certificate for the right to operate a machine of this design are allowed to operate logging machines, equipment and motor tools.

The assignment of workers to a particular machine (equipment, motor tool) must be issued by order for the workshop or organization.

7. Workers involved in the operation and maintenance of machines must know:

the arrangement and purpose of all parts of machines, their individual components, equipment, as well as the rules for operating and caring for them;
rules for rejecting ropes, load gripping devices and other equipment;
instructions of factories - manufacturers of machines and equipment;
organization's signaling rules.

8. Workers engaged in logging operations must use personal protective equipment (overalls, footwear, gloves, protective helmets, balaclavas, etc.) issued according to established standards. It is forbidden to work in the forest without protective helmets.

9. Workplaces, sites, transport routes after dark or in case of poor visibility (fog, rain, snow) must have artificial lighting that provides illumination not lower than that established by industry standards. Work in the absence of sufficient lighting of the workplace is not allowed.

It is not allowed to work at night on felling the forest and cleaning trees from branches using motor and hand tools.

10. Employees using transport provided by the organization for travel to and from work must know and strictly follow the rules for transporting passengers. Travel to and from the place of work on transport not equipped for these purposes is prohibited.

11. When traveling in a bus, a specially equipped car, a passenger carriage of a train or through water obstacles on a ship, it is not allowed:

enter and exit until the transport stops completely;
exit towards the carriageway;
ride outside the car, sit on the side of the body, stand in the vestibules of the car or in the back of the car;
transport a fueled gasoline-powered saw, fuel, lubricants and explosives, woodcutting tools with open blades or teeth, hunting rifles in an assembled combat form;
transport firewood and other bulky goods that block passages;
overload the ship;
stand in the boat and rock it;
boarding and disembarking the ship before mooring;
smoking, littering and damaging vehicle equipment.

When transporting through water obstacles, each worker must wear a life jacket or belt.

When transported by helicopters, workers must comply with all orders of the crew.

12. Workplaces on the loading platform and on the bucking rack must be promptly cleaned of debris, fallen logs, snow, ice, slippery places sprinkled with anti-slip material. Work on cluttered sites and overpasses is not allowed.

13. Organizational management of logging operations is carried out by the foreman directly or through the foreman; orders and instructions of the foreman are obligatory for all those working in the cutting area.

14. Cutting operations are carried out in accordance with the approved technological map for each cutting area.

Each employee must be familiar with the technological map of the cutting area on which he is to work, and comply with the requirements of the technological map during work,

15. Prior to the development of a cutting area, preparatory work must be completed on it. A cutting area is considered prepared if:

rotten, dead, hung, windfall, windbreak trees and "broken" trees (trees that have been scrapped at any height) have been removed;
prepared main skid trails, loading areas, hiking trails (in mountainous conditions);
clearings for rope installations were cut;
rope and loading installations have been installed.

Port roads and loading areas are considered prepared when trees, undergrowth, shrubs, deadwood, etc. have been removed over their entire area; stumps and bumps were cut flush with the ground, pits were filled in, swampy areas were covered with poles and branches, a safety zone around the loading areas was cut down.

The readiness of the cutting area should be formalized by the relevant act. It is not allowed to work on an unprepared cutting area.

16. The development of a cutting area without preliminary preparation is allowed in windfall and windfall cutting areas, when more than 20% of the total number of trees in the cutting area are dangerous. Such logging sites are developed according to special rules for windfall-windfall logging sites during felling for forest care (thinning, passing cuttings), and sanitary felling. In all these cases, dangerous trees are removed during felling, as well as during machine felling.

17. Prior to the relocation of integrated teams to a new cutting area, within a radius of 50 m from the intended boundaries of the upper warehouses, loading points, winches, heating rooms, canteens located in forests that are not subject to felling, all dangerous trees must be removed, and in forests to be felled, all trees must be cut down.

18. On footpaths and roads crossing the developed cutting area, safety signs and warning signs should be installed; the movement of vehicles in the cutting area is prohibited.

The territory within a radius of 50 m from the place of felling trees (in mountainous conditions - at least 60 m) is a dangerous zone. It must be fenced along the skid trails with a portable safety sign and a warning sign "Passage and passage is prohibited. Felling".

With a slope of more than 15 °, the danger zone extends along the slope to the foot of the mountain.

When the height of the trees is more than 25 m, the radius of the danger zone is equal to twice the actual height of the stand.

19. When felling trees in the danger zone, it is not allowed to clear snow around trees, fell trees in two or more places, delimbing, hauling and other work.

20. It is not allowed to carry out felling and skidding, delimbing and bucking of whips in mountain cutting areas at a wind speed of more than 8,5 m/s, and on flat terrain only felling of timber at a wind speed of more than 11,0 m/s. Logging operations are stopped during heavy rain, thunderstorms, heavy snowfall and thick fog, if visibility is less than 50 m on flat terrain (or double the height if trees are more than 25 m high), and less than 60 m in mountainous areas.

21. Machinery, equipment, motor and hand tools must comply with the standards, specifications for their manufacture and be operated only in good condition. Employees are obliged to comply with the requirements for handling machinery and equipment established by the factory instructions. According to the steel rope rejection standards, it is not allowed to use steel ropes spliced in knots or having more than 10% of broken wires at one lay stride.

22. When performing logging operations in the logging site and silvicultural work, at least two people must be present on the areas. Single work on these types of work is not allowed.

23. Employees must comply with fire safety requirements, do not use fuel and lubricants when kindling stoves in a heating house, and dry overalls in the immediate vicinity of the stove.

24. The requirements of this instruction are obligatory for all workers employed in logging operations. Employees are responsible for their violation in accordance with applicable law.

25. In cases not covered by this instruction, you should contact your immediate supervisor.

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