| 45 T T Kelly Deeks Awards reflect contribution to industry ATS Logging has been recognised for its efforts with three awards at the 2022 Hawke’s Bay Forestry Awards. ATS Logging FORESTRY FMNZ manage forests for over 2,500 clients with a cumulative net stocked area over 35,000 hectares. FMNZ Mission Statement: “To maximise the potential of every forest we manage in an environmentally, socially and economically sustainable manner.” • Harvesting • Establishment • Planting • Inventory • Silviculture • ETS • Forest Management 06 843 3770 info@fmnz.co.nz www.fmnz.co.nz • Forestry equipment maintenance and repair • Heavy fabrication/ certified welding • Southstar equipment factory trained technician BLAIR ADAMSON | 0274455388 | logweldltd@gmail.com PROUD TO SERVICE & SUPPORT ATS LOGGING Logweld Limited est 2019 The team at ATS Logging has been recognised for their outstanding contribution to the industry at the 2022 Hawke’s Bay Forestry Awards, where employees Tane Lee took out the Harvesting Excellence category and Hayden Mullins was awarded the Outstanding Health and Safety Management trophy, while director Amy Satherley was runner up in the Women in Forestry category. “It was an awesome achievement for our guys and for us as a company,” Amy says. Amy and her husband Toby started ATS Logging in 2010 when Toby’s dad Malcolm, who works in forestry earthworks in the Hawke’s Bay, told the couple there was a shortage of logging crews in the region. “We started up a little team of me, Toby, and two staff in a ground based crew. Since then we’ve gone from ground-based to cable logging, from one crew to four crews, and from two staff to 23 staff.” For its first six years, ATS Logging worked mainly around Central Hawke’s Bay on private wood lots, then started contracting to FMNZ, then Pan Pac, and more recently for NZFM in Turangi. Amy says becoming Safetree certified, although not compulsory for working with these large forestry owners, was key to ATS Logging’s progression in the industry. “It was a big push for us and a good thing to have for our company. Our guys know that we want to be at that level, and we want them to be at that level as well.” Amy says the ATS Logging team is an awesome group of guys and the Hawke’s Bay Forestry Awards lend she and Toby another means of recognising their efforts. Toby has worked in the forestry industry since the age of 14 and seen massive changes to health and safety in that time. “We’ve tried to be a big part of those changes and to help change the attitude about the industry. You have to be smart to do it safely and to get home at the end of the day. We want to be part of our guys having a good life and enjoying their jobs, and going home to their families every day.” ATS Logging replaced much of its paperwork with tablets five years ago and these have also helped the company to introduce an app-based management system where each crew records the information from their daily toolbox meetings and this is accessible by staff in the office in real time. Even in the days immediately after Cyclone Gabrielle, where the team was working on emergency evacuations, road repairs, and silt clean-up, they were completing their toolbox meetings every day. “It just goes to show how much safety is ingrained into the culture of our team.” Amy says ATS Logging started drug testing long before it became a mainstream thing. “We had a bit of kick-back at the start, but now the guys don’t even care. They know it’s part of their job, and they are happy to know they aren’t working with other people who are under the influence.” Mental health has also been a focus for ATS Logging which has put Amy and three supervisors through a suicide first aid course which is a pilot initiative with FICA through Mates4Life, and the whole team through a suicide prevention course to help them identify when they or others may need some help with their mental health. “Everyone is involved and seeing how important it is.”
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