Logger safety education, on-site training

• Free workplace safety and health consultations and logger safety education (PDF)
• Logging brochure: Minnesota workers' compensation claim characteristics (PDF)

Minnesota OSHA Workplace Safety Consultation administers the education program for the loggers statute (Minnesota Statutes 176.130) to ensure all Minnesota loggers have the opportunity to obtain safety training. Through assessments collected from the wood mills, funds are redistributed to logger employers upon completion of safety training by their employees.

Minnesota Logger Education Program (MLEP) administers the scheduled classroom safety seminars for the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry.

Minnesota loggers who wish to schedule on-site consultations or on-site safety training sessions, will qualify for the LogSafe training credit, which is the same as attending a scheduled classroom safety seminar.

To schedule on-site consultations or on-site safety training sessions, contact Ed LaFavor in Workplace Safety Consultation by:

• phone at (218) 362-5915;
• fax at (218) 362-5916; or
• e-mail at ed.lafavor@state.mn.us.

2009 loggers forms (Word documents)

• Annual report of wood purchased or acquired
• Annual report of wages paid to qualified loggers

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• Logger safety education brochure
• LogSafe Seminars

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