PLC Safety and Training Coordinator recognized for Outstanding Contributions to Safety

OLD FORGE, NY On May 18, 2023, the Northeastern Loggers

Donald Burr of Greenbush, Maine, with its Outstanding Contributions to Safety Award 2022 at the organization annual Loggers hosted at Jeff Center prior to Loggers held May 19 years as a logger, primarily as a feller buncher operator for Maine companies. He is now the Safety & Training Coordinator for the Professional Logging Contractors (PLC) of Maine and has grown the organization effectiveness over the last five years, setting new records for attendance. into 2021, Burr made sure that the PLC Fleet Safety Trainings carried on through online videotaped sessions. make the industry safer. He has developed several popular online video series covering logging and trucking safety issues, including “Unsafe Zone which interviews loggers and truckers about accidents they have experienced and how they could have prevented them, and “Tailgate Talks,” a series of recordings covering logging safety topics. These videos are all easily accessible by smartphone or PC.

Mechanized Logging Operations Program. The program

Ted Clark, Senior Loss background in both logging and safety has given him the perfect skills to provide safety training and He is always knowledgeable and a great choice

Burr has raised the bar for industry safety in Maine and beyond, truckers, students, law enforcement, health care professionals, and the public to be safer on the job and in the woods. His enduring motto is

The Northeastern Loggers’ headquartered in Old Forge, New York. The organization has nearly 2,000 members in the region from Maine to Minnesota and Missouri to Maryland. NELA publishes the monthly magazine The Northern Logger & Timber Processor and hosts the annual Northeastern Forest Products Equipment Exposition (Loggers’ Expo).