In 2008, FPInnovations, Feric produced “A Tree Planter’s Guide to Reducing Musculoskeletal Disorders" (MSDs). The guide was aimed mostly at planters in western Canada using the shovel as the planting tool but it had no provincial boundaries and it was equally applicable to similar operations across Canada. However, because eastern Canadian tree planters also use different tools, an eastern Canadian version of the Guide was produced to include those tools.