The winter safety resource page contains seasonal information for your company to use for crew talks, to post on safety bulletin boards or incorporate into a safety management system.

ZIP file contains the complete Winter Safety package

For your convenience, all the documents below can be retrieved together, if you are comfortable using zip files and extracting the documents and directories (such as Winzip, or the Windows built in extractor), Click here to download the zip file (9 Meg download).

Crew Talk Form

To download a blank crew talk form that you can fill out on your computer: Click Here 

(*Note for full functionality, this document requires Adobe Reader)

For a version of the Crew Talk Form that does not require the download or install of additional software, (but you can print and fill out manually): Click Here

Winter Safety Categories

The resources below have been separated into four main categories applicable to each area of the industry.

Workers

• Crew Talk: Walk Carefully on Slopes
• Forest industry safety alerts:
  • Paint can explodes
  • Worker slips off log
• Links to additional safety information:
  • WorkSafeBC - Hypothermia

Worker Winter Safety Package Download

Transport

• Crew Talk: Drive Wise - Winterize
• Forest industry safety alerts:
  • Pickup avoids deer
  • Loaded truck rolls over bank
  • Good communications
  • Pickup slides on compact ice
• Links to additional safety information:
  • Shift into Winter

Roads Winter Safety Package Download

Machinery

• Crew Talk: Grapple Yarder Slides on Road
• Forest industry safety alerts:
  • ATV slips on ramp

Machinery Winter Safety Package Download

Facilities

• Crew Talk: Keeping Stairs and Walkways Clear
• Facilities Winter Preparedness Checklist
• Forest industry safety alert:
  • Worker succumbs to carbon monoxide
  • Worker slips on ice in millyard
  • Hand injured in snowblower

Facilities Winter Safety Package Download