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Forestry Worker
OFO Code: 821501
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 821501
- Occupation
- Forestry Worker
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- ELEMENTARY OCCUPATIONS
- Unit group
- 8215 · Forestry Labourers
Official description
Forestry labourers perform simple and routine tasks to cultivate and maintain natural and plantation forests, and logging, felling and sawing trees.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Forestry Contractor, Skiddy Forest, Bush Clearing Contractor, Timber Getter, Forest Labourer / Hand / Pruner, Sniper Forest, Silviculture Forestry Worker, Fire Lookout, Firewood Cutter, Forestry Protection Officer, Quality Controller of Forestry Contractors, Tree Planter, Harvesting Forestry Worker
- Clearing undergrowth in forest stands and thinning young plantations
- Maintaining look-out for fires in forests
- Removing major branches and tree tops, trimming branches and sawing trunks into logs
- Performing minor repairs and maintenance of forest roads, buildings, facilities, and equipment
- Stacking and loading logs and timber
- Operating and maintaining manual and hand held machine saws to fell trees and cut felled trees and branches into logs
- Digging holes for tree planting
- Collecting seeds, and planting seedlings
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.