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House panel adopts revised Idaho logging safety standards, removes outdated or duplicative rules
Summary
The House Business Committee on Feb. 27 approved updates to the Idaho minimum logging safety standards (docket 3241401), removing obsolete definitions and duplicative language, clarifying felling distances and deleting an operating-plan requirement used previously as guidance.
The House Business Committee approved updates to the Idaho minimum logging safety standards (docket 3241401) on Feb. 27 after agency staff described the results of an 0-based review intended to remove obsolete or duplicative language and to make the standards more practically enforceable for loggers and safety inspectors.
Amy Lorenzo, bureau chief at the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses, said the logging chapter had grown to nearly 70 pages and that many definitions and procedural items were either obsolete or redundant. The rules update deletes outdated terms, removes requirements tied to pond-logging water operations that are no longer common,…
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