Saw Safety was a weekly newsletter of safety tips created by the UGA Saw Safety Team.  This newsletter targeted professionals in tree care and landscape, men and women who put a saw in wood.  The letter offered one tip per week, is short and sweet, easy to share, and perfect for tailgate meetings.  The goal of Saw Safety is to help companies and public sector entities create a culture of safety within their organizations and to encourage safety discussions. The steady stream of safety tips is punctuated with tips on sharpening, equipment, and other great resources. Illustrative, educational, and occasionally funny videos are embedded in the newsletter, when appropriate, and with full respect to copyrights.

In 2014 tree care and logging officially became the most dangerous work in the United States with a discouraging 78 deaths per year. Accidents abound when falling trees, chainsaws, and heights are combined. Arborists are not the only workers using chainsaws. Landscapers, golf course workers, city and county workers, and many others in the public and private sectors all commonly use chainsaws.

E.M. Bauske

1. Welcome
2. Head Protection
3. Hearing Protection
4. Eye Protection
5. Chaps or Pants
6. Gloves and Boots
7. Safe Carry
8. Happy Halloween
9. Great Resources
10. Safe Start
11. Big Shot
12. Holiday Demonstration
13. Dull Saw
14. Kickback And Low Kickback Chains
15. More on Chains and Cutters
16. Sharpening Tips
17. The Bar
18. Oil and Fuel
19. Smoking and Saw Safety
20. Valentine’s Day Gift Idea
21. Tightening the Chain
22. Mechanical Advantage
23. More on Mechanical Advantage
24. Last Chance
25. Inertia Chain Break
26. Three More Critical Saw Safety Features
27. Cool Cut
28. Site Assessment: The Tree
29. Step 1 of the Five-Step Felling Plan

30. Step 2 of the Five-Step Felling Plan
31. Step 3 of the Five-Step Felling Plan
32. Steps 4 and 5 of the Five-Step Felling Plan
33. Saw Sights
34. Occupational Accidents
35. Ropes
36. Safety Harness
37. Stump Grinder Safety
38. Cool Equipment Break
39. Traffic Control
40. Are You a HOT Tree Guy?
41. We’ve Come a Long Way…
42. Wedges
43. Ticks
44. Chiggers
45. Bees, Wasps, Hornets, and Yellow Jackets
46. Back Safety/Safe Lifting
47. It Has Been A Year
48. New Look
49. Terrible Accident
50. Spark Arrestor
51. Don’t Get Caught Up in Your Work
52. Communication – It is More Than Words
53. Happy Halloween
54. Training Resources
55. Working with Jack Frost
56. Saw Safety in the Kitchen
57. The True Cost of an Accident
58. A Fast Start to the Christmas Season

59. Hearing Protection
60. Eye Protection
61. Financial Safety and Your Business
62. Saw Pants and Chaps
63. Gloves and Boots
64. Another Cool Equipment Break
65. Battery Powered Chainsaw
66. Best Sellers
67. Storm Damage
68. Examination Isn’t Just a Test!
69. Storm Damage – Spring Poles
70. Storm Damage – Handy Cuts
71. Storm Damage – One More Cut
72. Storm Damage – Final Thoughts
73. Anti-Vibration Gloves
74. Ticks Made the News
75. Cool Equipment Break
76. Fine Tuning the Saw
77. All Good Things Must End
78. Equipment Theft
79. Poison Ivy
80. Summer Weather
81. Spark Arrestor
82. Kickback
83. The Barber Chair
84. Avoid Entanglement
85. Strange Things Inside a Tree
86. Stump Jump
87. This is the Last Newsletter

The Saw Safety Team has well over a hundred and fifty years of tree care experience.

We bring together two powerful educational teams to create Saw Safety.

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