In early May, the Forest Industry Safety Council (FISC) ran two two-day Safetree Leadership Workshops for Wenita supervisors, contractor principals, contractor foremen and senior crew members. What is the Safetree Leadership workshop about? The true test of leadership...
The main reason for pruning is to produce clearwood. Branches are cut off from the first 5.0-6.0 metres of a tree’s stem, usually in two lifts. This allows knot-free timber to form around the defect (knotty) core. This knot-free timber is known as clearwood and...
Logging debris (slash) left behind on used skid sites has long been a problem for forest owners. The problem has increased over the years, as logging machinery has gotten bigger and extraction distances have increased, resulting in more slash accumulation on fewer...
Wenita Health, Safety and Environmental Coordinator Willie Sinclair has been appointed to the role of South Island Worker Representative on the Forestry Industry Safety Council (FISC). FISC national safety director Fiona Ewing says worker engagement is key to the...
On Tuesday, January 12, Wenita held its annual Safe Start Breakfast at the Taieri Rugby Club with all harvesting, silviculture, roading and transport crews. This year more than 180 people attended. Wenita CEO David Cormack kicked off the event with some safety...
NIWA’s climate modelling is predicting air temperatures are highly likely to be above average in all regions of the country until at least January. It has confirmed the arrival of La Niña conditions and forecasts Coastal Otago will have above-normal to near-normal...
