FSC Forest Certification

Forest Management & Stump-to-Forest Gate Chain-of-Custody Certification Evaluation Report | PUBLIC
Version 7-0 (December 2016) | © SCS Global Services
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There is a system in place to manage
the rural workers ´ occupational,
health and environment which
encompasses all the programs that
are required by the current
legislation.
However, when the paperwork was
audited (environmental risk
prevention program, occupational
health and safety medical control
program, technical report on the
environmental working conditions,
occupational health certificates & job
orders), the assessment team
realized that the divers’ and the
foremen ´s documentation do not
match i.e. machine refueling is not
anticipated in their job orders.
Additionally, there are
inconsistencies in the job order from
a third-party enterprise that provides
timber loading-related services. The
activity truck hoisting, which is one of
the main duties of the activity, is not
mentioned in the tractor/ Munck
operator ´s job order.
There are procedures that set the
precautionary measures that are to
be taken while cutting devices are
being handled. The implementation
of such procedures is monitored in
the field. However, when pruning,
cross-cutting and tree logging
operations were inspected, it was
observed that the cutting parts do
not have any protection. As a result,
it jeopardizes the cooperators´ safety
when they need to dislocate to the
work fronts OR even during their
handling before and upon finalization
of the activities.. Minor CAR 2017-04
The FME has undertaken a socio-
economical diagnosis and on this
occasion, the operational impacts
before, during and upon finalization
of the operational activities were