YOVI EY & YAMADA Y. 2015. Strategy to disseminate occupational safety and health information to forestry
workers: The Felling Safety Game. Participatory occupational safety and health (OSH) protection is an
effective strategy to produce safe and healthy forestry work operation. Commitment and active participation
of participants are among the key success of participatory OSH. However, most Indonesian forestry workers
are ignorant of participatory OSH protection due to insufficient knowledge of potential hazard identification
and risk control, working techniques and procedures, and management of work organisation. This research
was aimed at developing an OSH learning instrument called The Felling Safety Game which is expected
to be applicable to forestry workers globally. A prototype of the game was designed for felling supervisors
working in Indonesian long rotation plantation forests applying manual/motor–manual forest operation
system. Supervisors were chosen as the main target of this game considering the fact that they retained
control and authority on worker groups. The contents of the game were chosen based on direct observation
of felling operations and in-depth interviews with key informants. Pre- and post-tests conducted during the
game trial showed that the respondents’ knowledge of OSH protection significantly increased, indicating
an effective application of learning instruments in a broader scale.