About Me
Safe Company Certified
- Engineering/Log scaling 1968-1970
- West faller from 1970 to 1995
- 1995 to 2004 logging falling supervisor
- December of 2004 Formed company QST Consulting Ltd.
- Presently Have Qualified Supervisor Training status ( certifying of fallers)
- 2004 worked with WCB and BC FSC to Certify fallers .
- 2005 Worked with Work Safe BC and BC Safety Council to pilot of New Faller Training .
- 2005 Completed coarse on instruction of 3101 on Evaluation of Learning at Vancouver Community College
- 2008 very honored to receive the Carey White Memorial Trophy from the BC Forest Safety Council
- 2009 Certified Danger Tree Blaster
- Wild Life and Danger Tree course
- Certified Instructor for Chain Saw Training courses.
- 2010 Completed ST johns L1 First Aid
- 2010 Presently Lead Instructor New Faller Training Courses for the BC Forest Safety Council
- 2010 Faller Supervisor Auditor for Coastal Forestry Operations
My Back Ground history
- Raised In Campbell River on Vancouver Island British Canada.
- My father was a high tree faller and logging supervisor for 40 plus years with the same company I worked for as well for 35 years.
- Background in west coat falling for approx 35 years where I developed the skills to train new workers in the logging industry field.
- For the past 10 years worked closely with Work Safe BC and BC Forest Safety council as lead trainer developing and implementing the BC Faller Training Standard for the purpose of training New Fallers.
- Responsible for building the new Recognized Basic Chain Saw Operators Training courses .
- Certified faller and Safe Company Certified as well as Ticketed Danger Tree Blaster .
- Presently auditing Fallers & Falling Supervisors for coastal logging operations.