Contents

  • Cover
  • Front matter
  • Preface
  • Scope, purpose and use
  • 1. Terminology, economic analysis, risk management
    • 1.1 Terminology
    • 1.2 Economic analysis
    • 1.3 Understanding risk
  • 2. Regulations, consents and approvals
    • 2.1 National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry (NES-PF)
    • 2.2 Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga
    • 2.3 The Health and Safety at Work Act
    • 2.4 NZ Transport Agency approval for access onto state highways
    • 2.5 District council approval for access onto council roads
  • 3. Planning for roads
    • 3.1 Road classes
    • 3.2 Arterial roads
    • 3.3 Secondary roads
    • 3.4 Spur roads
    • 3.5 Establishment tracks
    • 3.6 Spatial information
    • 3.7 Initial field work
    • 3.8 Manual design method: Stepping out a roadline on a topo
    • 3.9 Running a grade line in the field
    • 3.10 Full road design
    • 3.11 Working with road survey data
    • 3.12 Geometric road design
    • 3.13 Curve widening
    • 3.14 Horizontal alignment
    • 3.15 Vertical alignment
    • 3.16 Calculating the safe stopping distance
    • 3.17 Setting out the roadline
  • 4. Planning for landings
    • 4.1 Common landing layouts
    • 4.2 Landing planning considerations
  • 5. Road and landing construction
    • 5.1 Soil and rock properties
    • 5.2 Managing adverse environmental effects
    • 5.3 Marking clearing widths
    • 5.4 Roadline salvage
    • 5.5 Daylighting
    • 5.6 Road formation
    • 5.7 Drainage control during earthwork construction
    • 5.8 Earthwork machinery
    • 5.9 Estimating machinery production
    • 5.10 Stabilising cut and fill slopes during construction
  • 6. Pavement design, subgrade preparation, pavement construction
    • 6.1 Traffic loading
    • 6.2 Evaluating subgrade properties
    • 6.3 Determining pavement depth
    • 6.4 Pavement material properties
    • 6.5 Compaction of subgrade and pavement
    • 6.6 Compaction equipment
    • 6.7 Pavement construction
    • 6.8 Weak subgrades
    • 6.9 Chemical stabilisation of pavement or subgrade
  • 7. Erosion, sediment and slash control structures
    • 7.1 Ditches
    • 7.2 Cut-outs
    • 7.3 Berms
    • 7.4 Drainage culverts
    • 7.5 Flumes
    • 7.6 Sediment traps and soak holes
    • 7.7 Silt fences
    • 7.8 Sediment retention ponds
    • 7.9 Debris traps
  • 8. River crossings
    • 8.1 Fish passage
    • 8.2 Selecting the location and crossing type
    • 8.3 Fords
    • 8.4 Temporary river crossings
    • 8.5 Single culvert river crossings
    • 8.6 Battery culvert river crossings
    • 8.7 Drift deck river crossings
    • 8.8 Single span bridge river crossings
    • 8.9 Prediction of flood flows, and sizing culverts
  • 9. Road maintenance, repairs and upgrades
    • 9.1 Maintenance programme
    • 9.2 Economic evaluation of road maintenance projects
    • 9.3 Managing maintenance requirements
    • 9.4 Commonly used maintenance machinery
    • 9.5 Road surface maintenance
    • 9.6 Road foundation maintenance
    • 9.7 Landing rehabilitation and decommissioning
    • 9.8 Roadside vegetation maintenance
    • 9.9 Erosion and sediment control structure maintenance
    • 9.10 River crossing maintenance
  • Forest road engineering terminology
  • References
  • Websites, resources, databases

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  3. 2.3 The Health and Safety at Work Act
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2.3 The Health and Safety at Work Act

The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA), and associated regulations (2018), is New Zealand’s workplace health and safety law. The Act is designed to ensure everyone has a role to play in health and safety. It sets out the responsibilities, and focuses on managing work risk. It requires those who create the risk to manage the risk.

Businesses need to engage with their workers and enable them to actively participate in health and safety. Engineering works which are identified as being ‘hazardous works’ under these regulations must be notified to WorkSafe – for example, deep trenching and when road grades are over 20% gradient.

Health and safety is a huge topic. This Manual will not replicate the health and safety requirements found elsewhere for forest engineering activities, in particular the Approved Code of Practice for Safety and Health in Forest Operations (ACOP) or within individual forest company’s health and safety manuals

ACOP provides practical guidance to those engaged in forestry associated work on how to meet their obligations under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and its associated regulations. Refer to the WorkSafe website (worksafe.govt.nz) for information on health and safety obligations, and to download a copy of the ACOP.

Another excellent source of information is Safetree, a sector-led organisation that provides health and safety information for the plantation forest industry. It supports a safe, sustainable and professional forestry sector in partnership with workers, industry and government. Refer to safetree.nz.

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