Arizona ProLogger Professional Logger Training & Education Allen Ribelin President American Loggers Council Representing 50,000 logging jobs nationwide.

Arizona ProLoggerProfessional Logger Training & Education

Allen RibelinPresident

American Loggers CouncilRepresenting 50,000 logging jobs nationwide

Southwest Sustainable Forests Partnership

13 November 2008

•BS-ED 1976 NAU

•Portal Graduate Instructor for ASU

•POST Law Enforcement Credential - California

•NAU Centennial Forest Steering Committee

•SFI National Forum western regional logger

•2009 President American Loggers Council

• 2004 President Pacific Logging Congress

•Northern Arizona Loggers Association

•Secretary / Treasurer 17 years

• Curriculum– Loss Control class

completion (6 units)– ProLogger Education

class completion (6 units)– Worker’s Compensation

class completion (6 units)• Facilitated by Arizona SCF

– First Aid / CPR certification• Arranged by ProLogger

• Accreditation– Certificate upon successful

completion of entire curriculum

– Proof of third party First Aid / CPR training

• Renewal in two years– 12 units of continuing

Logger Education credits

• Loss Control– Session One

• Logging Safety Program

• Self Assessment• Safety Policy Statement• Employer Rights• Employee’s

Responsibilities

– Session Two• Safe Operation

Procedures• Hiring Procedures• Uniform Guidelines on

Employee Selection• Selection Planning &

Job Analysis• The “Interview”• Job Analysis

Arizona ProLoggerProfessional Logger Training & Education

Arizona ProLoggerProfessional Logger Training & Education

• Loss Control– Session Three

• Physician’s Packet• Job Training• Arizona Labor Laws

– Session Four• Mandated Programs

– OSHA– Emergency

Evacuation– Lock Out / Tag Out– First Aid / CPR– Hazard

Communication– Exposure Control

Plan

Arizona ProLoggerProfessional Logger Training & Education

• ProLogger Business– Section One

• Implementation Guidelines

• Silviculture for Loggers• Standard Logging

Agreement

– Section Two• Matching Your

Equipment• Estimating Costs• Financial Management

Arizona ProLoggerProfessional Logger Training & Education

• ProLogger Business– Section Three

• Introduction to Computer Hardware

– Section Four• Introduction to

Computer Software

Arizona ProLoggerProfessional Logger Training & Education

• Worker’s Compensation– Presented by SCF Arizona

• History of worker’s compensation• Worker’s Compensation Law• Experience modifiers• NCCI

MasterMasterLoggerTM

C O U N C I L

MasterC O U N C I L

SM

MasterMasterLoggerTM

• Approved Templates:– California– Idaho– Louisiana– Maine– Minnesota– Michigan– Arkansas

– Oregon– Washington– Wisconsin– Vermont– Rhode Island– Connecticut– South Carolina

MasterMasterLoggerTM

• Certification Strategy– MLC is the state specific performance

standards which moves training standards to the next level of professionalism

– MLC is a recognition of training and experience in the profession

– MLC allows for economic negotiations to speak to issues beyond the lowest price

– MLC allows us to define what environmentally friendly logging is to consumers and retailers

MasterMasterLoggerTM

• Certification Strategy (cont)– MLC is a marketing tool for loggers in selling

their professional services to landowners– MLC is a step one of a larger and long-term

professional strategy and commitment– MLC is something that can work in every state– MLC is grassroots not top-down– MLC is state by state development program of

performance standards with ALC oversight– MLC is a program, which ALC and each state

association will control, not grantors

MasterMasterLoggerTM

• Certification Strategy (cont)– MLC is a national partnership with industry,

government, landowners, retailers, consumers, and young people deciding on viable careers

– MLC is a recognition of the professionalism of loggers so consumers can understand what we know and are able to do

Questions?