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Forestry Organizations

Forestry Organizations

BC Forest Safety Council
http://www.bcforestsafe.org/
The British Columbia Forest Safety Council (the Council) was created in September 2004 as a not-for-profit society dedicated to promoting forest safety in the sector. It includes all of the major forestry organizations and is fully supported by WorkSafeBC and the Provincial Government. The Council's mandate is to work within the forest industry to eliminate fatalities and injuries.

Forest Safety Task Force
http://www.forestsafetybc.com/default.asp
The purpose of the Task Force is to develop an action plan to reduce the rates of serious injuries and deaths in the B.C. forest sector. The initial target for the action plan was to reduce these rates by at least 50 percent within three years. While this goal is significant, the Task Force has agreed to treat this as an interim target and to set the ultimate goal of eliminating all avoidable and serious injuries and deaths in the sector as soon as possible.
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Council of Forest Industries
http://www.cofi.org/
A trade association incorporated in 1960, COFI is the provincial voice of the British Columbia Forest Industry. COFI represents over 100 forest companies and six forest industry trade associations. Their member companies operate throughout the province; manage forest resources; manufacture lumber, pulp, paper, plywood and other value-added forest products; and sell these products locally, nationally and internationally.

United Steelworkers of Canada
http://www.uswa.ca/
The United Steelworkers of Canada union represents men and women at more than 1,500 workplaces across Canada. Local unions are created by employees who work in banks and credit unions, legal clinics, nursing homes, hotels, restaurants, cafeterias, warehouses, manufacturing plants, mines, steel plants, security companies, call centres, universities, offices, trucking companies, fish plants, airports and resorts.

The Truck Loggers Association
http://www.tla.ca/
The Truck Loggers Association is the "official" organization of independent logging contractors, phase contractors, small tenure holders, woodlots, market loggers, log brokers, independent sawmills, remanufacturing mills and heavy equipment, fuel, camp and other suppliers in the coastal region of British Columbia. Their industrial members employ more than 7,500 people and generate over $1 billion in revenue for the provincial economy and for the communities in which they are based. The activities of these companies account for well over 50 per cent of the trees harvested in the coastal region of BC.

Central Interior Logging Association
http://cila.ca/
The Central Interior Logging Association (CILA) have been representing the log-harvest forest industry (stump to dump) since 1966 and represents almost 400 independent logging contractors in Northern British Columbia, Canada. The CILA works for the common good of the total membership and makes representation on the issues of forest and log-hauling legislation at federal, provincial and regional levels.

BC Ministry of Forests and Range
http://www.gov.bc.ca/for/index.html
The Forest Service, as the agency responsible for protecting and managing the rich and diverse forest and range resources, focuses on ensuring that the health and productivity of the province's forest and range resources are maintained now and in the future.

Safety Advisory Foundation for Education and Research (SAFER)
http://www.safer.ca/default.htm
The Safety Advisory Foundation for Education and Research (SAFER) Council's mission is to assist workers and employers in the B.C. Forest Industry to improve accident prevention and create a healthy environment, on and off the job. SAFER is jointly managed by IWA Canada and the Coastal and Southern Interior forest industry.

Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada
http://www.feric.ca/en/?OBJECTID=13F9E580-E081-222F-A4BEC5B295C890FE
FERIC, the Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada, is a private, non-profit research and development organization whose goal is to improve Canadian forestry operations related to the harvesting and transportation of wood, and the growing of trees, within a framework of sustainable development.

Western Silvicultural Contractors' Association (WSCA)
http://www.wsca.ca/
The WSCA membership is made up of the silviculture contracting community in Western Canada. Their members perform the bulk of silviculture work in British Columbia and Alberta.

Wildlife Tree Committee
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/wlt/
The Wildlife Tree Committee (WTC) is a multi-agency committee composed of representatives from the provincial Ministry of Forests and Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection, the B.C. Workers' Compensation Board, industry and labour, and public interest groups from across the province.

Ontario Forestry Safe Workplace Association (OFSWA)
http://www.ofswa.on.ca
"The Ontario Forestry Safe Workplace Association is a strategic partner in Ontario's occupational health and safety system and is organized to provide the highest quality of training, consultation and related services to forestry member firms aimed at developing self-reliance and the internal responsibility system, all of which focus on the elimination of workplace illness and injury."

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