Health and Safety Issues in Romanian Forests: Findings from FSC Certification Audits
In a wider context of attempting to minimise forestry related occupational hazards, this paper aimed to evaluate the ability of FSC forest management certification to contribute to identifying, describing, and reducing health and safety issues in forest management in Romania. By extracting and analy...
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| author | Aureliu Florin Hălălișan Bogdan Popa Stelian Alexandru Borz Ioan Vasile Abrudan |
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| description | In a wider context of attempting to minimise forestry related occupational hazards, this paper aimed to evaluate the ability of FSC forest management certification to contribute to identifying, describing, and reducing health and safety issues in forest management in Romania. By extracting and analysing the health and safety related non-conformities from auditing reports issued for Romanian forest management operations between 2013 and 2018, the study reveals that the most important risk factors are organizational factors, followed by equipment-related factors. The correlation of the results with other findings in the forest operations literature indicates that forest management certification is a suitable tool to identify and describe the health and safety aspects of forest management related activities, especially for forest operations. The analysis also indicates some possible causes of the high rate of work accidents in Romanian forestry: obsolete and less mechanised technology, low concern for providing and using specific safety equipment, low wages in forest operations, lack of proper training etc. All these aspects point to the need for improving safe organisational culture. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-db88f4b028684e78865bbae9757263ac2023-11-23T11:01:38ZengMDPI AGForests1999-49072022-05-0113571410.3390/f13050714Health and Safety Issues in Romanian Forests: Findings from FSC Certification AuditsAureliu Florin Hălălișan0Bogdan Popa1Stelian Alexandru Borz2Ioan Vasile Abrudan3Department of Forest Engineering, Forest Management Planning and Terrestrial Measurements, Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University of Brasov, Sirul Beethoven 1, 500123 Brașov, RomaniaDepartment of Forest Engineering, Forest Management Planning and Terrestrial Measurements, Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University of Brasov, Sirul Beethoven 1, 500123 Brașov, RomaniaDepartment of Forest Engineering, Forest Management Planning and Terrestrial Measurements, Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University of Brasov, Sirul Beethoven 1, 500123 Brașov, RomaniaDepartment of Silviculture, Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University of Brasov, Sirul Beethoven 1, 500123 Brașov, RomaniaIn a wider context of attempting to minimise forestry related occupational hazards, this paper aimed to evaluate the ability of FSC forest management certification to contribute to identifying, describing, and reducing health and safety issues in forest management in Romania. By extracting and analysing the health and safety related non-conformities from auditing reports issued for Romanian forest management operations between 2013 and 2018, the study reveals that the most important risk factors are organizational factors, followed by equipment-related factors. The correlation of the results with other findings in the forest operations literature indicates that forest management certification is a suitable tool to identify and describe the health and safety aspects of forest management related activities, especially for forest operations. The analysis also indicates some possible causes of the high rate of work accidents in Romanian forestry: obsolete and less mechanised technology, low concern for providing and using specific safety equipment, low wages in forest operations, lack of proper training etc. All these aspects point to the need for improving safe organisational culture.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/13/5/714Romanian forestry sectorforest operationshealth and safetyrisk factorsaccident factorsFSC |
| spellingShingle | Aureliu Florin Hălălișan Bogdan Popa Stelian Alexandru Borz Ioan Vasile Abrudan Health and Safety Issues in Romanian Forests: Findings from FSC Certification Audits Forests Romanian forestry sector forest operations health and safety risk factors accident factors FSC |
| title | Health and Safety Issues in Romanian Forests: Findings from FSC Certification Audits |
| title_full | Health and Safety Issues in Romanian Forests: Findings from FSC Certification Audits |
| title_fullStr | Health and Safety Issues in Romanian Forests: Findings from FSC Certification Audits |
| title_full_unstemmed | Health and Safety Issues in Romanian Forests: Findings from FSC Certification Audits |
| title_short | Health and Safety Issues in Romanian Forests: Findings from FSC Certification Audits |
| title_sort | health and safety issues in romanian forests findings from fsc certification audits |
| topic | Romanian forestry sector forest operations health and safety risk factors accident factors FSC |
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