Additional Safety Resources
ISAO’s Safety Committee has compiled some safety discussion topics and resources here (check back as we will update).
The ISA Ontario Safety Committee and our partners have been gathering information on arborist workplace injuries and fatalities. In the graphs below we have summarized worldwide arborist occupational incidents resulting in a fatality or injury from June 1, 2020 to May 31, 2021. Information was gathered from news reports, dripline.com, OSHA, TCIA.org and other sources by: ISA Ontario, the ISA Ontario Safety Committee, the Ontario College of Trades, Alice Power and Peter Wynnyczuk. The data is only arborist related and does not include forestry/logging or non-workplace incidents.
As this data is from published reports, it is surmised that these incidents represent only a portion of total actual incidents and that rates are significantly higher than shown below. Note also that the information could change as investigations are ongoing.
