Injuries, close calls - and how you avoid 'em

ColF

G'day. New here. I'm an OHS advisor here in Oz. When I was a younger, fitter fella I played at rock-climbing and a wee bit of mountaineering (not very good at either). I understand basics of rope work and understand the demands that can place on a pro needing to apply safe processes. The other thing is I'm also often impressed with the "safety elegance" good arborists demonstrate when at their job.

For mine, there is a lot to learn from professionals able to combine good smart safe work practices when doing fundamentally dangerous work.

I would appreciate hearing from pros on what tend to be their most common close calls, the skills they would nominate at the most important for stopping injuries and close calls and what proportion of building those skills came from being up the tree and being frightened rigid, vs learning from others.

Another, slightly more "obscure" question (but important in the context of translating arborist safety-thinking to other work) is: Do you think it's possible to separate smart safety procedures from the actual work or do ya find that safe work procedures have to merge pretty well seamlessly with the stuff needed to do the job?

PS: I should add, this stuff is not just a casual enquiry. I'd like to apply responses here to general OHS training for all sorts of workers.

Cheers.

derwoodii

This TW site link may help.
Close calls and why

The idea son is to try and be smarter than the bit of wood your cutting and never put ya hands where you wouldn't put ya dick.