%0 Journal Article
%T Forestry at the EU¡¯s Doorstep ¨C How Much are We Ready in the Area of Occupational Safety in Forestry?
%A Ivan Martini£¿
%A Matija Landeki£¿
%A Mario £¿por£¿i£¿
%A Marko Lovri£¿
%J Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering
%D 2011
%I University of Zagreb
%X According to the classification of business activities in the National Classification of Activities, agriculture, forestry and fishery together account for 3.43% of all injuries recorded in 2009, which places them in the lower part of the annual review (Table 1). However, in the said group, the state forestry enterprise (Croatian Forests Ltd. Zagreb) accounts for 48.46% of all injuries at work, which makes 1.66% of all injuries recorded in 2009. Comparing the number of injuries in Croatian forests with the number of employees in 2009, an exceptionally high ratio is obtained of 29.40 injuries per 1000 employees, the highest index among the above said industry sectors.Nevertheless, according to standard indicators of the level of security and protection of workers, in this decade forestry has recorded positive trends in relation to key indicators. Also, the state forestry enterprise halved the number of injuries (Table 2).Working techniques of workers directly employed in forest operations play a key role in achieving a satisfactory degree of safety and efficiency in forestry work. The assessment of working techniques of forest workers employed in logging and timber production has been carried out by the Faculty of Forestry continuously since 2000 (Table 3). Findings of a ten-year evaluation indicate the following:  since the beginning of monitoring, a relatively steady increasing trend of the level of working techniques has been recorded, while the accomplished potential (AP), calculated using the overall mean scores, has ranged between 0.79 and 0.88 utilizations,  mean value of AP is 0.84, which suggests an average of 16% of unaccomplished potential and it is a scope to improve working techniques,  rating of 2010 (2.63) keeps the increasing trend of working techniques levels, but such a positive difference is not statistically significant,  a decreasing trend of the lowest ratings (1) stops in 2010, by reducing the share of medium grade (2) and increasing the proportion of top grade (3).The evaluation of mechanized skidding has been carried out since 2008 by separate monitoring of the skidder-driver and chokerman (Table 4). Key findings are as follows:  performance level of work activities moderately grows with a decrease of the weakest ratings (1) and with the increase of the share of medium grade (2),  mean value of the accomplished potential (AP) amounts to 0.825 in 2009, which means an average of 17.5% of unaccomplished potential and it is a scope for improvement of working techniques.According to the Forests Act, forestry work can be carried out exc
%K forestry
%K occupational safety
%K training for safe operation
%K center for forest work
%K certification of skills
%U http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/101788