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Advanced logging safety with LEAP

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Vermont Business Magazine The LEAP program is hosting a follow up training course for those who have completed the Introduction to Mechanized Logging Safety course. This training will focus and review the basics for First Aid Rural environment care. The program will be done through hands on team approach training, with an emphasis on “Move or NOT Move” situations. Both courses are required for mechanized logging contractors participating in the newly created Vermont Logger Safety and Workers’ Compensation Insurance Program.

Among the many topics of discussion, the course will focus on rural first aid, a review of bloodborne pathogens, first aid versus trauma kits, communication, GPS, personal accountability, forming a response team, scene assessment, rescue of a trapped and pinned logger, actual hazard exercises, and a final wrap up and review of real trauma and honest expectations of positive outcomes.

Tim Emperor, the instructor for Advanced Logger Safety, is the current director of NE Timber Safety Services (NETSS) and has provided safety consulting services in conjunction with Industry and OSHA. His team has provided safety compliance reviews for a variety of different facilities in New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, and Oregon. Tim has assisted in the development and safety training related programs with the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Professional Loggers Program since 1999 and continues to work as a Senior Field Instructor for military Para-Rescue, Special Weapons and select tactical teams.

The training course has a maximum attendance of 20 loggers and registration will begin at 7:30am. The official course itself will start at 8:00am and will run until 4:00pm. The cost of the training program is $75 per logger and lunch will be included. The course is available October 14, 2019 at the Stan Robinson and Son Log Yard, 2841 US-5, Passumpsic, VT. As well as October 15, 2019 at Lafoe Logging, LLC, 151 Tarbox Road, Orleans, VT. The program can also be attended October 18, 2019, at Gagnon Lumber, 89 Stevens Rd, Pittsford, VT. For more information about the program contact LEAP coordinator, David Birdsall, [email protected], (802)-235-2908 or visit the LEAP website, vtleap.com.

 

The Logger Education to Advance Professionalism (LEAP) Program is a not-for-profit educational organization that strives to remain non-political. LEAP recognizes that the logging profession is an essential link between Vermont woodlands and forest industry. Along with landowners and foresters, loggers are partners in managing our forests for wood, water, wildlife and recreation. Vermont's forests have a legacy of providing these resources and are capable of sustaining these public benefits if properly managed. We see education as offering a positive approach, bringing everyone together to reach this common goal. The LEAP program is an instrument to encourage life-long learning among loggers. We will strive to promote professionalism through education and instill a stewardship ethic among loggers. The outcome of this endeavor, we envision, will be a well managed and productive forest landscape, and a positive public perception of the logging profession.

Source: RUTLAND, Vt. -- The LEAP