Logging Slide Presentation
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This standard applies to:
- All types of logging, regardless of the end use of the wood.
- Examples of logging activities include pulpwood and timber harvesting
and the logging of sawlogs, veneer bolts, poles, pilings and other forest
products.
- All logging operations from pre-felling planning to the transport of
logs and forest products to the point of delivery, with the exception of
the construction and use of cable yarding systems. Tree making activities
including the marking of danger trees of wildlife trees, which take place
in advance of and separate from tree harvesting, are NOT covered by these
regulations.
- Examples of logging operations include: felling, limbing, bucking,
debarking, chipping, yarding, loading, unloading, storing, and
transporting of forest products, and the transporting of logging equipment
and personnel to and from logging sites.
- Agricultural employers who are engaged in logging operations incidental
to their agricultural operations are also covered by these logging
regulations pursuant to Part 1928, Occupational Safety and Health
Standards for Agriculture. Reference: 29 CFR 1928(a)(3).
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