AFAG Guides
Establishment
AFAG 102 - Pre-planting spraying of container-grown seedlings
AFAG 103 - Planting
AFAG 104 - Fencing
AFAG 105 - Hand-held power posthole borer
Maintenance
AFAG 201 - Hand held weeding, brashing and pruning
AFAG 202 - Application of pesticides by hand-held equipment
AFAG 203 - Clearing saw
Chainsaws
AFAG 301 - Using petrol-driven chainsaws
AFAG 302 - Basic chainsaw felling and takedown
AFAG 303 - Chainsaw snedding
AFAG 304 - Chainsaw cross-cutting and manual stacking
AFAG 306 - Chainsaw clearance of windblow
AFAG 307 - Chainsaw felling of large trees
AFAG 308 - Top-handled chainsaws
AFAG 310 - Use of winches in directional felling and takedown
Work off ground
AFAG 401 - Tree-climbing operations
AFAG 402 - Aerial tree rescue
AFAG 403 - Mobile elevated work platforms (MEWPs) for tree work
Extraction
AFAG 501 - Tractor units in tree work
AFAG 502 - Extraction by skidder
AFAG 503 - Extraction by forwarder
AFAG 504 - Extraction by cable crane
AFAG 506 - Extraction by horse
Processing
AFAG 601 - Mobile circular saw bench
AFAG 602 - Mobile peeling machine
AFAG 603 - Mechanical harvesting
AFAG 604 - Wood chippers
AFAG 605 - Mechanical roadside processing
AFAG 606 - Mobile stump grinders
AFAG 607 - Firewood processors
Vehicles
AFAG 701 - ATV quad bikes
AFAG 702 - All-terrain vehicles
AFAG 703 - Debogging and recovery of forest machines
AFAG 705 - Steep slope working in forestry
General Safety
AFAG 802 - Emergency planning
AFAG 803 - Firefighting
AFAG 804 - Electricity at work: Forestry and arboriculture
afag805 - Training & Certification
Further Information
AS24 - Power take-offs and power take-off drive shafts
AIS24 - Safe use of forage harvesters
AIS27 - PUWER 98: How the Regulations apply to agriculture and forestry
AIS29 - LOLER: How the Regulations apply to forestry
AIS30 - LOLER: How the Regulations apply to arboriculture
AIS38 - Power-fed mobile wood chippers - Operator protection at...
HSE31 - RIDDOR explained (Revision 4)
INDG177 - Health & safety guide for gamekeepers
INDG145 - Review of workplace control measures to reduce risks...
INDG214 - WORKERS SAFETY ADVISOR CHALLENGE FUND
INDG229 - OC 770/07 - SAFEGUARDING METAL SPINNING MACHINES
INDG290 - Simple guide to the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998
INDG294 - Guidance for the recovered paper industry - recover...
INDG317 - Topic Inspection Pack - Workplace Transport
INDG345 - HSE - Publications - Welfare at work
INDG363 - Protect your hearing or lose it!
WIS35 - Safe use of power-operated cross-cut saws
WIS36 - Safe use of manually operated cross-cut saws
WIS38 - PUWER 98: Retrofitting of braking to woodworking machines
Other useful guidance
Lone Working Guidelines
Chainsaws at work
Farm and estate forestry operations
Managing Health and Safety in Forestry
Tree Work Accidents: An analysis of fatal and serious injuries
HSE Risk Assessment
Main Menu
Member Login
Recent Articles
- Meeting with Accountax Consultants - Lockerbie 19th February
- Help with HMRC
- Notice of the 2012 Annual General Meeting
- Forestry to be removed from Gangmaster Licensing
- Contractors Phytophthora Training Event
- FCA Commercial Legal Advice Service launched
- CS33 - Felling Larger Trees
- Red band needle blight in Scottish tree nurseries
- First Aid at Work – Forestry Commission Policy
- The implications of Red band needle blight on forestry practice in Scotland
