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Update for Master Code of Practice for the trucking industry

02 June 2023
An update to the widely used Master Code of Practice is now underway to help drive better safety outcomes. The Master Code is a registered industry code of practice that was first developed by the Australian Trucking Association (ATA) and the Australian Logistics Council (ALC) in cons
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Labor doesn’t see a need for mental health support for timber workers

02 June 2023
Labor has sensationally backed away from mental health support for timber workers in state parliament following further questioning from The Nationals Member for Eastern Victoria Region and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Public Land Use, Melina Bath. Source: Timberbiz Ms Bath cont
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FAO to launch Global Fire Management Hub

29 May 2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the United Nations Environment Program will launch a Global Fire Management Hub that aims to strengthen countries’ capacities to implement integrated fire management. Source: Timberbiz The Global Fire Management Hub
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Canada calls on overseas help to combat wildfires

19 May 2023
Canada has called for help to combat wildfires burning out of control and spreading across vast swathes of the western half of the country. Source: VOA and Timberbiz The fires that have devastated the oil-producing Alberta province have in recent days spread to neighbouring British Co
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VicForests using drones to comply with new Supreme Court orders

19 May 2023
VicForests has started using drones at night to detect endangered fauna to comply with new orders from the Victorian Supreme Court that have temporarily led to the closure of the native forest industry. Source: Philip Hopkins, LaTrobe Valley Express The state’s native harvest operator
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More hazard reduction burning in NSW

15 May 2023
A hazard reduction burn took place in Pine Brush State Forest, north-east of Grafton, as the Forestry Corporation of NSW reduces forest fuel loads ahead of the bushfire season. Source: Timberbiz Forestry Corporation’s hazard reduction burn was across 1000-hectares in the Pine Brush St
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Oh deer, too many

10 May 2023
A joint PIRSA and Limestone Coast Landscape Board feral deer culling program has been hailed a success by the South Australian Forest Products Association. Source: Timberbiz The aerial shooting program was extended south into the Green Triangle forestry estate for the first time and r
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Gippsland family day to relieve stress in forestry communities

03 May 2023
A family day to be held in Bairnsdale on Saturday is an opportunity for forest communities to come together and support each other during a time of great uncertainty and distress. Source: Timberbiz Forest & Wood Communities Australia Director Mick Harrington said The Unsplittable
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Comprehensive AFCA driver program includes rollover training

03 May 2023
The Professional Ownership & Driver Wellbeing Program is back encompassing not just the PODW program but also the ‘Rollover’ Program to present a complete and comprehensive training package designed for ‘best practice’ across the whole transport industry as
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Intense French summers lead its foresters to Australia

01 May 2023
A French delegation of forestry professionals recently visited the eastern states and Western Australia on a study tour. Source: Timberbiz The study tour was prompted by challenges in the French forest industry that included several consecutive summers of intense heat, low rainfall, a
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