“Achieving world class returns by managing the supply of forest and wood products to preferred global customers”

Nelson Forests:

Challenges of Faller Certification for the Forest Industry

Les Bak, Health and Safety Manager

“He aha te mea nui o te ao” “He tangata! He Tangata, He tangata”

“What is the most important thing in the world” “It is people, It is people, it is people””

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•  Tree felling certification development started in 2005 at Nelson Forests.

•  First assessments were completed at NFL 2006. •  All Fallers at NFL achieved certification by 2007 •  Industry started looking at reapplying this program across

industry with the FOA in 2008 •  Joint work for both Faller and Breaking out Certification with

ACC started also in 2008. •  Hancock and NFL both have implemented internal processes

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It is now 2017, Currently FISC and the OAG are continuing work to move it ahead BUT Why is a proven effective competency program for high risk tasks slow to move forward?

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•  The word “certification” •  Cost and availability of resources to deliver the training

and assessment •  Wide range of standards and expectations around what

makes a “Professional” faller •  No systems to track, maintain and monitor the results,

follow up, individual and company information •  Lack of understanding of the difference between current

training/assessment and certification GOOD NEWS Many companies see the value and have developed this process internally with the support of FISC and the OAG. We have about 100 “certified” Professional Fallers today across industry.

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Lack of industry

sharing of learnings

Consistent standards and assessment

Understanding of competency

and culture

A comprehensive consistent process to deliver competency

Resources and ongoing development

Reassessment feedback and improvement

cycle

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ITO Delivery and Moderation Internal Company

and Contractor Trainers/Assessors

Crew Culture

Industry Initiatives

Personal Experiences

Reference material

Monitoring and Audits

Reassessment

Industry Learnings

Daily planning

Business practices and procedures Tools and Gear

New Technology Incident Learnings

PCBU Interaction

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Initial three visits and assessment to achieve certification

Two spot audits supporting the competency

assessment yearly

Annual review of professional

certification by qualified assessor

Industry learnings shared from best practice and incidents

Daily planning engages faller

and crew

Internal faller monitoring and

practices aligned to certification

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No Training Unskilled Uniformed

Learning Inexperienced Familiarization

Compliant Risk aware Procedures

Proactive Risks managed Skilled

Self aware Risks mitigated Troubleshoot

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GOOD NEWS •  Although many fallers are

nervous after going thorough process have seen it as a positive.

•  Fallers will tell you after 10 years we are still improving and learning

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§  Developed a simple approach for people to trigger when they were at risk.

§  This was developed by the workers not managers or safety professionals

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The most dangerous phrase !

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Has personal knowledge of standards and

rules Constantly learns and grows skills and understands their capability

Is safe and fit for task.

AS WELL AS PRODUCTIVE

Can plan and problem solve high

risk situations

Maintains good gear

Maintains this standard

EVERYDAY! Even when not being watched

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Have a look on Safetree. The assessment is there for you to review and complete your own mini assessment. Remember the strength in the process is a good external assessor and ongoing learning and development. Talk to the OAG about getting involved.