Chainsaw Safety: Free 11x17 Poster
A practical chainsaw safety poster for golf courses and grounds operations. Free to download, print, and share. Built for real-world turf conditions.
Most safety reminders don’t fail because they’re wrong. They fail because they’re ignored.
They’re too busy, too generic, or too disconnected from the way work actually happens on a golf course or grounds crew. The TurfOps Weekly safety poster library exists to fix that problem. These are simple, print-ready reminders built for real crews, real conditions, and real decisions made in the field.
This chainsaw safety poster is part of that growing library. It focuses on one of the most common and highest-risk tools used in golf and grounds operations, especially during storm cleanup, tree work, and seasonal maintenance. Chainsaw work rarely happens in perfect conditions. Wet turf, slopes, roots, irrigation hardware, limited visibility, and nearby players all raise the stakes.
The poster lays out clear, professional standards for before-you-start checks, proper starting and control, cutting awareness, and crew communication. It reinforces habits that prevent injuries, not just rules meant to be followed once and forgotten. It also makes a simple but critical point: experience does not replace caution. If footing, visibility, or control is compromised, the right call is to stop.
Every poster in the TurfOps Weekly safety library follows the same approach. No fluff. No vendor messaging. No assumption that crews need to be talked down to. These are working tools meant for shops, breakrooms, and trailers where safety conversations actually happen, not binders that collect dust
All posters are designed as 11x17 PDFs and are free to download, free to print, and free to share within your operation. They’re never for resale and always focused on one goal: better decisions and fewer injuries.
More posters are coming. Same tone. Same intent. Practical safety, built for how the work really gets done.
The bigger idea behind TurfOps Weekly
This poster is part of a growing TurfOps Weekly safety library focused on the everyday risks that actually affect golf course and sports field operations. Simple tools. Real injuries. And better ways to prevent them.
— Kurt TeWinkel | Founder