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Contractor of mechanical felling
A contractor of mechanical felling is an individual who carries out tree felling with machines. Types of machines used in mechanical felling are the following:
- a machine for tree felling;
- machines for limbing and production – processors;
- machines for limbing;
- machines for tree felling, limbing and production of assortments – harvesters.
They can be individual machines or in a form of tractor attachments. A contractor of mechanical felling must fulfil minimum conditions, i.e. must have adequate professional competence, adequate work experience, passed the safety at work course and suitable work and protection equipment.
Conditions
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An individual must have:
at least level 4 of education and a special training course for concrete works or a certificate on the national vocational qualification.
To obtain the national vocational qualification, the Certificate on the national vocational qualification must be acquired. The Certificate is acquired in the process of verifying and confirming national vocational qualifications, performed by contractors who are registered in the National Examination Centre's register, namely: The procedure or examining and confirming the NVQ is conducted:
with direct verification of professional knowledge, skills and qualifications, specified in the catalogue of professional knowledge and skills; by confirming professional knowledge and skills: an applicant prepares a personal portfolio, which is assessed by the commission and the contents of the catalogue are partially or entirely recognised; if the committee is not able to recognise all contents of the catalogue, further tasks for verification are determined.
Evidence
Certification on NVQ and school certificate
Legal basis
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An individual must have at least three years' work experience in forest work.
Evidence
A written statement on a legal or natural entity who fulfils the legally prescribed conditions for the project designer, that an individual performed a certain type of engineer services, with the stated type and time of performance of these services and also the responsible project designer the individual was working with – in the original or certified copy must be submitted together with the certified translation in the Slovenian language.
Legal basis
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The contractors of works in forest and other users of forestry machinery are obliged to pass the safety-at-work course in the field of forestry. The main topic of the course is the following:
organisation of a safe and healthy work in forest; selection, application and maintenance of appropriate machines, equipment and tools; application of the proper working technique; application of the personal protective equipment.
The courses are implemented at the locations of the regional units of the Slovenia Forest Service (ZGS).
Evidence
The Slovenia Forest Service evidence on the successfully completed course
Legal basis
Competent Authority
Slovenia Forest Service
Večna pot 2
1001 Ljubljana -
The contractor of forest works must have appropriate working and personal protective equipment:
protective clothing which are made to discharge extra moisture and protect against external weather conditions; a protective helmet which should be equipped with a visor and earmuffs; forestry gloves providing a good grip and equipped with the fibres against the cut; protective footwear in a from of a forestry protective shoes or forestry rubber boots with the protection against the cut, strengthened with the toe cap, ankle support and ribbed sole.
Evidence
Appropriateness of working and protective equipment is checked by the on-site inspectors.
Legal basis
Recognition of qualifications acquired abroad
There are following systems for the recognition of professional qualifications acquired in the EU: