Forestry
Safety and Health of Forestry Services Workers in the Pacific Northwest
The forest service workforce in the Pacific Northwest is largely immigrant, low-literate, and Spanish-speaking with unique vulnerabilities due to a lack of skills and safety training, occupational immobility, remote work locations, and small contractor employment.
Hands on the Land Project: Resource Clearinghouse for Forestry Services Workers
With this 5-year award to Oregon State Forestry Extension, PNASH joins as a partner in Hands on the Land, a collaborative program to enhance the equity of the forest workforce in the Pacific Northwest. We focus on labor-intensive forest workers including forestry services contract crews, incarcerated workers, and volunteer workforces.
Hands on the Land re-envisions our forest workforce with:
Behind the injury numbers – Listening to loggers
The last decade has seen major shifts in logging technology adoption (increased mechanization) and workforce (high worker turnover and increasingly Spanish-speaking). Logging has a relatively small workforce, yet injuries are often severe and occur at a rate that makes it the nation's most dangerous occupation. US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows logging has the highest fatality rate, 28 times the average worker.
Pesticide Labels and Safety in Spanish
By Marcy Harrington and Pablo Palmández
This article was originally published in the Western Forester Oct/Nov/Dec 2024 Issue. The publication is available in English and in Spanish.