I understand well your issues, Matt.
There is one thing that I think frequently sets the US Forest Service tree climbing program apart from most other training/certification programs is the requirement for attendance to a full-on training course to receive recertification every 3 years. A...
I found a better way...here's the link to the OR OSHA website, to the whole Division 7, Forest Activities rules...you can download it from there.
http://www.cbs.state.or.us/external/osha/pdf/rules/division_7/div_7.pdf
Here's the table of contents, to give you an idea of the scope.
OREGON OCCUPATIONAL
SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS
Oregon Administrative Rules, Chapter 437
DIVISION 7
FOREST ACTIVITIES
Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division (OR-OSHA)
Department of Consumer and Business Services
Salem...
Matt, here's the whole Division 7 Oregon OSHA rule governing Forest Activities. I posted the subdivision P that covers tree climbing in a thread I started a few days ago, but this is the whole enchilada. Pretty comprehensive, maybe it can help y'all some.
Oops, the whole pdf file is too large...
Matt, I don't know anything about the BC system. I think I have the current Oregon OSHA standards for logging operations on a CD...I'll look into it and if it seems like there might be something there for you to resource, I'll post it.
Some of the Canada members might have some input.
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