Our Purpose

The Western Silvicultural Contractors’ Association is dedicated to improving working conditions, quality of life and safety for all silviculture workers in BC. As a founding member of the BC Forest Safety Council, we are working to develop a culture of safety in our workplace.

A key element of cultural development is education, whether it is formal education or education through experience and mentorship. The WSCA has been working to provide a dedicated program to educate and train individuals and companies working in the Silviculture Industry in British Columbia to ensure that everyone:

• knows what skills are required to work competently, and therefore safely, at a particular job;

• has those skills and can display those skills through an evaluation; and

• can display those competencies progressively and repeatedly through job experience.

These WSCAcourses pages will be one of our methods of communicating with the members of the WSCA and the broader silviculture community to:

• advise you of news with respect to the BCFSC's safe companies program pertaining to silviculture safety and competency training and certification

• identify training courses available for your companies and employees;

• provide a means of registering for courses;

• provide a feedback method.

In February, 2009, the Ministry of Forests and Range with the Ministry of Community Development announced that the WSCA will receive $500,000 to the spring of 2011. That funding period is now over. As a result, we will be reverting back to a cost recovery system for course delivery. That results in a new pricing structure which will be specific to your course needs. Please see the Registrar's page for details.

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WSCA - British Columbia, Canada