Follow these Metsä Group’s safety guidelines when visiting a forest site:
- Inform the machine operator about your visit. You can find the phone number in the message sent to you before the work began or on the site’s warning sign.
- Always wear a high-visibility vest or garment, as well as suitable footwear, to the site.
- When visiting a felling site or a site of other types of machine work, wear a helmet with a chinstrap and eye protector. If you do not have one, you can borrow one from the harvester operator.
- Visit the site in daylight.
- Maintain a safety distance of at least 90 metres to a running machine or felling operations. The safety distance for chipping is also 90 metres. The safety distance for clearing saw works and wood loading is 20 metres.
- Ensure that the operator or forest worker notices you.
- Wait for the machine to be stopped before you approach it.
- Approach the site from the felled area, not from an unfelled forest where visibility is poor.
- Never go under the machine’s boom.
- Do not climb on top of a pile.
- If you would like to film harvesting on site, please agree with the driver in advance and take into account other safety practices.
These safety guidelines also apply to wood loading and chipping.
Further information is available from your personal forest specialist or our local office.