Business Seminar – Friday, February 22, 2008
9:30am – 10:30am – repeated at 10:45pm

Update On OSHA Cab Regulations

This seminar will be presented by Larry Fipps, Trainer, Oregon OSHA and Mark Wilkinson, Engineering Manager at Hitachi-Deere Specialty Products.

Plan to attend this highly informative presentation discussing the upcoming 2009 regulatory deadline requirements regarding operator cabs related forest activities. This seminar generated considerable interest last year and is back by popular demand to provide the most up to date information on cab requirements for forest machines.

Larry Fipps with Oregon OSHA will provide the background and overview of the requirements for operator protective structures on excavator-based machines used for forest activities such as: log loading, shovel logging, log processing, road building and site preparation (brush piling). Mark Wilkinson will present a manufacturer’s perspective describing the design effort and development process that’s built into operator cabs that meet or exceed the requirements.

Both Larry and Mark will be available to help answer any specific questions regarding your existing fleet of machines and how the 2009 requirement may affect their use in the woods.

Larry Fipps
Trainer
Oregon OSHA

Larry has been a trainer with Oregon OSHA since 1999. Prior to being a trainer, he was a safety compliance officer for two years, inspecting logging, construction, and manufacturing companies in Oregon. Before joining Oregon OSHA, Larry worked for a large timber company. He was an operations manager for eight years, and a contract logging supervisor for six years. He has a broad knowledge of safety as an employee and as a manager.

Mark Wilkinson
Engineering Manager
Deere-Hitachi Specialty Products

Mark Wilkinson is the Engineering Manager at Deere-Hitachi Specialty Products, located in Langley, B.C. Canada. He is responsible for the design and development of the Deere “54” series and Hitachi “ZX” Forestry Swing Machines He has 20 years experience designing mobile equipment attachments and Forestry machine conversions. He grew up around off-highway equipment, as his family owned a logging and construction company in the Southern Interior of British Columbia. Mark is currently the chairman of the SAE Machine Technical committee for Forestry machines. Mark has Diploma’s in both Mechanical Design and Electrical Engineering Technology.

Oregon Logging Conference
P.O. Box 10669, Eugene, Oregon 97440 USA
USA Phone: 1-800-595-9191, International Phone: (541) 686-9191
Email: oregonlogging1@aol.com