Profession forestry inspector

Forestry inspectors monitor forestry operations to ensure that workers and their activities comply with proper legislation and standards. They perform inspections to examine operations, wages, costs and health and safety measures. Forestry inspectors also analyse and report on their findings.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry

  Awareness on enviromental legislation, policies, principles relevant for agriculture and forestry. Awareness of the impact on the enviroment of local agricultural precedures and practices. Means to adjust the production to new enviromental regulations and policies.

• Forestry regulations

  The legal rules applicable to forestry: agricultural law, rural law, and laws on hunting and fishing.

• Health, safety and hygiene legislation

  The set of health, safety and hygiene standards and items of legislation applicable in a specific sector.

Skills

• Monitor work site

  Regularly ensure that working conditions on site meet health and safety requirements; ensure that the proposed work will not pose a threat to the physical integrity of others.

• Undertake inspections

  Undertake safety inspections in areas of concern to identify and report potential hazards or security breaches; take measures to maximise safety standards.

• Conduct environmental surveys

  Conduct surveys in order to collect information for analysis and management of environmental risks within an organisation or in a wider context.

• Communicate health and safety measures

  Inform about applicable rules, guidelines and measures to avoid accidents and hazards in the workplace.

• Analyse business processes

  Study the contribution of the work processes to the business goals and monitor their efficiency and productivity.

• Write work-related reports

  Compose work-related reports that support effective relationship management and a high standard of documentation and record keeping. Write and present results and conclusions in a clear and intelligible way so they are comprehensible to a non-expert audience.

• Ensure compliance with legal requirements

  Guarantee compliance with established and applicable standards and legal requirements such as specifications, policies, standards or law for the goal that organisations aspire to achieve in their efforts.

• Maintain forest inventory

  Recognise growing crops in forests and woodlands. Record their numbers in a formal inventory. Take measures applying the appropriate techniques.

• Enforce sanitation procedures

  Ensure standards of sanitation and cleanliness essential to effective control of fungi and other parasites under intensive culture conditions. Obtain uncontaminated fish and eggs by strict sanitary procedures and avoidance of carrier fish. Supervise the isolation and identification of the agent with specific immune antiserum.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB