Chainsaw for fire services

Watch out for wood under tension!

WHAT DOES THIS CHAINSAW TRAINING FOR FIRE SERVICES COVER?

After every heavy storm, we rely on the fire brigade or civil protection to clear the public road again.

As a firefighter, you ensure that torn-off trees or broken branches no longer pose a danger.

The work equipment for this clearing work is of course the chainsaw.

In this practical training, we specifically practise sawing wood under tension caused by storm damage.

• Safety and responsibilities of the chainsaw user
  • Personal protective equipment (PPE)
  • Ergonomic working
• Getting the chainsaw ready for use
• Understanding the tension of the wood
  • Tensile and compressive tension
  • Breaking hinges
  • Standing and lying wood under tension
• Dangers and risk analysis
  • Last Minute Risk Analysis (LMRA)
  • Emergency situation and escape route
• Practice: cuts for advanced users
  • Dead wood, hollow trees, leaning trees,
• Practice: felling cuts for advanced users
  • Placing guide lines
  • Using attachments: wedges, felling lever, hand winch
• Practice: sawing wood under tension
  • Cuts
  • Felling
  • Delimbing felled trees
  • Removing dangerous branches

If you have no experience with the chainsaw yet, first follow our practical sawing techniques and felling techniques trainings.

NO WORDS, BUT ACTIONS!

• Theoretical introduction (30%) with plenty of practical exercises (70%)
• This standard chainsaw training is independent of the European ECS standards
• Both content and duration can be fully tailored to your organisation
• No exam
• Every participant receives a certificate of participation

WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?

Any workstation where work equipment is used, where motor vehicles, cranes, overhead cranes, lifting devices of any kind, or machines that set dangerous installations or devices in motion are operated, or where service weapons are carried, is considered a safety function, insofar as the use of that work equipment, the operation of those machines and installations or the carrying of those weapons may endanger the safety and health of other workers of the company or of external companies. Workers who perform a safety function must hold a certificate of medical fitness. (Code, book I, title 4)