{"id":1399,"date":"2022-11-01T14:56:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T14:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8009\/stories\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2024-06-25T19:14:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T19:14:27","slug":"rayonier-safety-team-trains-100s-of-loggers-and-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neforestrydistribution.com\/stories\/rayonier-safety-team-trains-100s-of-loggers-and-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Forestry Safety Team Trains 100s of Loggers and Contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The team traveled to 8 states for sessions geared toward helping logging companies set up their own OSHA Safety programs. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

While safety has always been a priority at New England Forestry, we recently boosted our commitment by adopting safety as a core value. After all, priorities can shift, but our dedication to safety should be fundamental. Our hope is that this increased focus on safety will encourage employees, contractors and even competitors to take a hard look at their own safety practices and see how they too might evolve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bill Monahan, New England Forestry\u2019s Director of Western Forest Resources, describes his own safety evolution as one that has shifted from passive to active: \u201cEarly in my career, I thought about safety almost like it was a condition or simply the environment I was in\u2014is it safe or not safe? Now I think about safety in an active way, almost like a mindset or a commitment to a set of behaviors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New England Forestry Senior Manager of Operations Safety shakes hands with a participant during one of the contractor safety training events.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Creating a Series of Logging Contractor Workforce Training Sessions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This April, in an effort to encourage our contractors to shift their own safety programs from passive to active, the New England Forestry Safety Department kicked off an ambitious series of coast-to-coast Contractor Workforce Safety Training events that brought safety experts together with New England Forestry contractors to focus on best practices and OSHA training standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A core team of 12 New England Forestry employees and safety consultants traveled from town to town, and\u2014with the help of more than 100 New England Forestry volunteers from offices around the country\u2014conducted 15 sessions in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Washington. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the end of June, this effort brought more than 650 contractors and 100 New England Forestry employees up to speed on OSHA requirements and prepared them to implement their own active, written safety programs by 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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