A safe visit to forest sites

Forest owners are welcome to visit a forest site as long as they follow these guidelines. The forest is yours, but it is also the forest machine operator’s or forest worker’s workplace. To ensure a safe visit, remember to tell the machine operator about your visit in advance and wear the required safety equipment.

Metsä Group sends two text messages to the seller of the wood before the harvest begins: the first about two weeks before the harvest begins and the second on the day when the harvester starts harvesting.

These safety guidelines also apply to wood loading and chipping.
Further information is available from your personal forest specialist or our local office.

Follow these Metsä Group’s safety guidelines when visiting a forest site

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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.

If you would like to film harvesting on site, please agree with the driver in advance and take into account other safety practices.
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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.
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Approach the site from the felled area, not from an unfelled forest where visibility is poor.

Visit the site in daylight.
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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.
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Never go under the machine’s boom. Do not climb on top of a pile.

Once you have announced that you are leaving, leave the forest site without delay.

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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.

Approach the site from the felled area, not from an unfelled forest where visibility is poor.

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.

Never go under the machine’s boom. Do not climb on top of a pile.