John Garland

John Garland

Affiliate Professor

Email: johngarland49@gmail.com

Phone: (541) 231-6241

Expertise: Safe Workplaces, Sustainable Communities, Agricultural health and safety, Health Equity, Occupational Health

PhD, MS

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About

For 33 years Professor Emeritus John Garland worked at Oregon State University as Timber Harvesting Extension Specialist bringing new technologies, conducting research and providing educational programs and publications to Oregon’s forestry sector. He continues his OSU research on operators in steep slope logging. John helped re-write the Logging Safety Code three times over 30 years and is on the OROSHA code committee. Dr. Garland has served as an expert in over 75 legal matters. He is also on the faculty of the University of Washington, PNASH Center. John has worked across the United States and thirty-three foreign countries. He completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Chile documenting the forestry sector trajectory of safety improvement over 20 years.

Education

PhD, Forest Engineering, Oregon State University
MS, Forest Management, University of Minnesota
BS, with Honors, Forest Engineering, Oregon State University

Affiliations

Forest Engineering Professionals Association
Society of American Foresters
Council on Forest Engineering
Phi Eta Sigma
Xi Sigma Pi
Phi Kappa Phi
PNASH Center University of Washington
Emeritus Professor - Oregon State University

PhD, MS

Affiliate Professor

Providing forest engineering expertise to industry, governments, tribal enterprises, and litigants in areas of forest operations, safety and health, accident assessments, technical and business training and education, new technologies, and operational efficiency since 1974.

Research Interests

Forestry workforce, safety, health, ergonomics, forest operations, leader National Occupation Research Agenda, Ag, For, Fishing

Mentorship

Not available to mentor new PhD and Master's students.

Research

Research Interests:

Forestry workforce, safety, health, ergonomics, forest operations, leader National Occupation Research Agenda, Ag, For, Fishing

Projects:

Using loggers and logging equipment to fight wildland fires, USDA Southern Forest Exp. Station grant, 2003 to 2006
Improving Primary Production with New Technologies: Synthetic Rope Applications, 2004-2006 Idaho Timber Workforce Development Project, 2008
Reducing workloads for older loggers in physically demanding logging tasks with synthetic rope, 2009 to 2012
Safety and Health of Latino Immigrant Forestry Services Workers in the Pacific Northwest NIOSH/CDC 2014-2017
Protecting the Logging Workforce: Development of Innovative Logging Techniques for a Safer Working Environment. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. 2016-2019 Principal Investigator.

Projects

Safety & Health of Latino Immigrant Forestry Services Workers in the Pacific Northwest
(NIOSH/CDC September 2014 - August 2017) PNASH

Spanish Glossary of Forestry Services Terms
(Oregon forest activities code in Spanish) PNASH

Protecting the Logging Workforce: Development of Innovative Logging Techniques for A Safer Working Environment—Oregon State University
(NIOSH/CDC September 2015 - August 2018)

In the news

The job no one wants: why won't young people work in logging?

August 23, 2017 | The Guardian | Featured: John Garland | View

Education

PhD (Oregon State University), MS (University of Minnesota)

Teaching Interests

Forest Operations, Forest Operations Regulations & Policy, Forestry Safety and Health

Contact information

johngarland49@gmail.com

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Additional Information

Major Reports, Invited Papers, Refereed Journal Articles

John Garland 3, Francisca Belart 1, Robert Crawford 1, Woodam Chung 1, Tamara Cushing 1,
Stephen Fitzgerald 2 , Preston Green 2 , Laurel Kincl 2, Ben Leshchinsky 1, Brett Morrissette 1, John Sessions1, and Jeff Wimer 1 . Safety in Steep Slope Logging, Journal of Agromedicine, DOI: 10.1080/1059924X.2019.1581115
Garland, J.J. 2018. Accident reporting and analysis in forestry: guidance on increasing the safety of forest work. Forestry Working Paper No. 2. Rome, FAO.
Garland, J. 2017. North American Trajectories of Development in Final Harvests, Proceedings Keynote address. Joint Regional Meeting of IUFRO RG3.03.00 and RG3.06.00 in Asia
Matsuyama and Kochi, Japan: 24th-28th July 2017. p 21-38.
Yamada, Yozo with Efi Yuliati Yovi, Dianne Staal Wästerlund, John J. Garland, Janusz M. Sowa. 2013. The Concept of the Ergonomic Spectrum. Open Journal of Forestry. Vol. 3 No. 1, January 2013 .p 8-11.
Garland, J. 2012. Workload Reduction for Younger and Older Workers with Synthetic Rope. International Ergonomic Workshop of IUFRO RG3.03: Ergonomic Challenges in Future Forest and Forestry, October 1-4, 2012, Nagoya, Japan. 8p.
Garland, J. 2017. Glosario de servicios forestales: con motivación para la comprensión
Glossary of Forestry Services: with Motivation for Understanding
http://osha.oregon.gov/OSHAGrants/grant-edu-ForestryServicesGlossary-EN…
Garland, J. 2015. Fresh Lessons Learned from Logging Litigation. Annual Meeting, Council on Forest Engineering, Lexington, KY. July 12-22, 2015. Available at www.cofe.org. 6 p.
Garland, J. 2014. The Limiting Factor in North American Forest Operations: A Skilled Workforce. Fifth Forest Engineering Conference (International). Gerardmer, France. (powerpoint available from author). September 23-26, 2014.
Garland, J. 2014. The Limiting Factor in North American Forest Operations: A Skilled Workforce. Annual Meeting, Council on Forest Engineering, Moline, IL, June 23-26, 2014. 6p.
Garland, J. 2014. Sustainable Forestry Needs a Sustainable Workforce. Oregon Logging Conference. February 23-25. Eugene, OR. (powerpoint available from author).
Garland, J. 2013. A Look at Logger Education after Thirty-five Years. IUFRO 3.06.00 Conference: Forest Operations in mountainous conditions. Norway. June 3-5, Honne, Norway. 9p.