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Text from
the OSHA Logging Compliance Directive, CPL 2-1.22
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Definitions and clarifications
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11. Paragraph (h) Tree Harvesting
a. Paragraph (h)(1)(ii) - Unfamiliar or unusually hazardous conditions.
The final rule requires that employees contact their immediate supervisor
for approval when unfamiliar or unusually hazardous conditions are encountered before
cutting is commenced.
(1) Certain situations are clearly covered by this paragraph, including worsening
weather conditions which begin to impair the logger's vision; deepening snow or mud which
begins to affect a logger's mobility; felling very large or very tall trees; cutting trees
whose lean, structure, or location make it difficult to fell in the desired or safest
direction; and using a driver tree to fell a danger tree.
(2) It is also important that employers train their employees that when they encounter
situations with which they have not dealt with before, they need to work with the
supervisor to handle the situation. This concept should also be reinforced in regular
safety and health meetings.
b. Paragraph (h)(1)(iii) - Felling distances. The standard
requires that while manual felling is in progress, yarding machines shall not be operated
within two tree lengths of trees being manually felled. OSHA has revised the final rule to
clarify that this requirement does not apply to tree pulling operations where tree pulling
and other team operations are used.
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