Forest safety group calls for changes in attitude, training: The message must be taken directly to the workers, the report says By Gordon Hamilton, Vancouver Sun
When Interfor's Squamish logging manager Keith Rush knocked on the door of the wife of a good friend on an autumn day in 2002 to tell her that her husband had just been killed on the job, the sordid safety record of British Columbia's forest industry really hit home.
There isn't a log out there that is worth anybody getting killed over, Rush said Monday at a news conference announcing the release of a B.C. Forest Safety Task Force report. The report calls for sweeping changes in attitude and training by both companies and workers to tackle the high number of logger deaths and injuries.
In the past 10 years, 250 forest workers have died in B.C.