PSA forest

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Chainsaw operator with full protective equipment: forest helmet, weatherproof jacket, chainsaw trousers, safety boots and gloves

The personal protective equipment for foresters , shortly chainsaw safety clothing , should the risk of injury in forestry work , especially when working with the chain saw to help reduce.

Equipment

Complete protective equipment includes the following five items of equipment:

  • The protective helmet for forest work must be equipped with face and hearing protection and comply with DIN EN 397, 352 and 1731. It should protect against falling branches. The wire mesh visor allows you to see as much as possible, but protects the eyes and face from whipping branches, splinters or sawdust. In a warning color, the helmet also indicates the location of the worker. The hearing protection is essential to avoid because of the noise of the chainsaw permanent hearing damage.
  • A work jacket with sections in signal colors should indicate the location of the forest worker.
  • Protective gloves in accordance with DIN EN 420 and 388. A cut protection insert in the gloves is only required when working in work baskets.
  • The protection trousers to injuries when working with the chain saw protection. When it comes into contact with the running saw chain, larger bundles of the long plastic fibers incorporated into the trousers (cut protection insert) are pulled out, wrap around the drive wheel of the chainsaw and block it in a fraction of a second. The cut protection trousers must comply with DIN EN 381 parts 2 and 5.
  • Safety shoes or boots must have a shaft length of at least 19.5 centimeters and be equipped with a non-slip sole, toe cap, ankle protection and cut protection in accordance with DIN EN 345 ​​and 344 Part 2.

  • Forest helmet

  • Cut protection gloves

  • Chainsaw protection pants

  • Chainsaw boots

Use obligation

Chain saw protection pictogram

In Germany, for those insured in the social insurance for agriculture, forestry and horticulture according to § 4 of the accident prevention regulation Forsten (VSG 4.3), the use of protective equipment consisting of a hard hat, ear and face protection, hand protection, cut protection trousers and protective shoes or boots with cut protection by the Accident prevention regulations of the employers' liability insurance association (UVV) prescribed as minimum equipment; the operator must provide the chainsaw operator with protective equipment.

In the FSC -certified forest, when processing firewood in the state forest, the wearing of personal protective equipment (helmet with ear and face protection, gloves, cut protection trousers and safety shoes with cut protection insert) is also required for private individuals ( self-employed ). In addition to the PSA forest, a qualification in handling a chainsaw ("chainsaw license") is required.

purchase

When purchasing protective equipment, you should pay attention to the following symbols :

  • CE marking as proof of a type test for compliance with the relevant European safety standards.
  • As proof of suitability for cut protection, a chain saw in a coat of arms combined with an indication of an adequate protection class, cf. insofar cut protection trousers .
  • An acorn with the words FPA . This test mark is awarded by the Kuratorium für Waldarbeit und Forsttechnik (KWF) and states that the product has passed a utility test.

swell

  • Brochure " Forest Work ", published by the Federal Association of Agricultural Professional Associations, Kassel 1999

Web links

Commons : Chainsaw safety clothing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ § 4 of the accident prevention regulation Forsten VSG 4.3 (status: January 1, 1997, version of January 1, 2017) (PDF; 282 kB)
  2. ↑ Self-promotion leaflet FSC (PDF), accessed on May 5, 2015