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Logging key definitions
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- Key definitions for the logging operations industry are found in 29 CFR 1910.266.
Key definitions related to logging operations include:
- Cable yarding: The movement of felled trees or logs from the area where they are felled to the landing on a system composed of a cable suspended from spars and/or towers. The trees or logs may be either dragged across the ground on the cable or carried while suspended from the cable.
- Danger tree: A standing tree that presents a hazard to employees due to conditions such as, but not limited to, deterioration or physical damage to the root system, trunk, stem or limbs, and the direction and lean of the tree.
- Designated person: An employee who has the requisite knowledge, training and experience to perform specific duties.
- Guarded: Covered, shielded, fenced, enclosed, or otherwise protected by means of suitable enclosures, covers, casings, shields, troughs, railings, screens, mats, or platforms, or by location, to prevent injury.
- Logging operations: Operations associated with felling and moving trees and logs from the stump to the point of delivery, such as, but not limited to, marking danger trees and trees/logs to be cut to length, felling, limbing, bucking, debarking, chipping, yarding, loading, unloading, storing, and transporting machines, equipment and personnel to, from and between logging sites.
- Skidding: The yarding of trees or logs by pulling or towing them across the ground.
- Yarding: The movement of logs from the place they are felled to a landing.