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Injury Prevention Resources for Wood Products Manufacturing - Value-added Wood Products

Pulp & Paper | Sawmills | Shake & Shingle | Plywood & Panel Board | Value-added Wood Products | General

The following links list tools, publications, and other resources to help prevent the most common injuries and illnesses in the wood products manufacturing industry. These resources may not meet all the requirements for health and safety in British Columbia. Please check the Workers Compensation Act, the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, and related materials for specific WorkSafeBC requirements.

Health and Safety for Woodworking Shops

This booklet identifies safety issues that are specific to woodworking shops and includes some basic information and safety tips to help keep your workplace safe. The booklet consists of four parts:

• Part 1: Health and safety responsibilities
• Part 2: Safety topics
• Part 3: Forms and checklists
• Part 4: Resources

Source: WorkSafeBC
* PDF (1.2 MB)

StartSafe Safety Tips

A series of seven posters for the woodworking industry.

• Safety Tip 1: Lockout
• Safety Tip 2: Guarding
• Safety Tip 3: Kickbacks
• Safety Tip 4: Slips, trips and falls
• Safety Tip 5: Housekeeping
• Safety Tip 6: Noise
• Safety Tip 7: Musculoskeletal Injuries (MSIs)

Source: WorkSafeBC

Woodworking eTool

This eTool is an interactive web-based training tool on the hazards associated with woodworking. It provides information on topics such as assembly, production, and shipping.
Source: OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration, US)
*HTML

NIOSH - Hazard Controls

Hazard Controls are short, user-friendly documents that describe control techniques for reducing hazardous exposures to workers in a particular application or industrial process. These documents outline and illustrate successful engineering controls and work practices.
Source: NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
* HTML

OSH Answers: Cabinet Manufacturing

Information presented in question-and-answer format.
Source: CCOHS (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety)
* HTML

Hard Metal Hazards

This pamphlet provides important health information for saw filers and knife grinders.
Source: WorkSafeBC
* PDF (260 KB)

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