Logger Rescue Workshop Offered

(Little Rock) – The Arkansas Timber Producers Association is sponsoring its highly-acclaimed Logger Rescue Workshop on Thursday, August 10, 2006 at the Elkhorn Bank, on Main Street in downtown Arkadelphia. The module begins at 4 p.m., concluding at 8:30 p.m. and participants will be provided with a pizza supper as part of the break. The entire workshop, is free of charge, including meals, and is made possible from support from area forest products companies participating in the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI). It provides participants with 6 hours of Logger Continuing Education (LCE) credits as part of Ark Pro Logger program requirements

Dana Hinkley, founder of the New Hampshire-based Logger Rescue Program, will facilitate the workshop, which typically covers basic in-woods safety and logger rescue procedures, including accident prevention, designed to protect logging professionals from injury or tragedy on the job. Hinkley brings an extensive combined background a second-generation logging professional and a now-retired fire chief from the Berlin, NH Fire Department where he also worked as a trained Emergency Medical Responder/Systems professional. Logger Rescue was founded in 1987 to meet the needs of the forest products industry and to help educate those who fall under OSHA guidelines 1910 and 1928. In 1994, Hinkley developed Advanced Logger Rescue to further educate the industry in how to effectively act as a rescuer until local fire and rescue personnel arrive on the scene, in an effort to protect both the patient and the rescuers from becoming victims themselves.

“Dana Hinkley has conducted numerous Logger Rescue Workshops as part of our Ark Pro Logger training program and his courses have been highly rated in attendee evaluations since 2001 when we first offered this important safety module,” says George Lease, director of trainig for the Arkansas Timber Producers Association. “Participants will leave the workshop having learned very useful and life-saving techniques,” he adds, “and that is the ultimate goal of our safety training.” Participants are asked to pre-register by August 9 by calling ATPA at 1-888-403-2232.