Basic Tree Survey and Inspection

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Basic Tree Survey and Inspection

Course Objectives

  • State the legal and safety implications of hazardous trees
  • Maintain your own health and safety while carrying out basic tree survey and inspection
  • Recognize hazardous trees
  • Determine level of risk
  • Decide on an appropriate course of action
  • Collect and maintain adequate information
  • Recognize your own limitations

Course Aim

This one-day course aims to provide specific tree survey and inspection training at a basic level for contractors, highway engineers, tree wardens, grounds maintenance staff, rangers and other persons of a non-arboricultural background or with limited arboricultural knowledge, to allow them to identify obvious defects from ground level and then to report their finding to a line manager.

Who is the course for?

Any persons employed as local authority highway inspectors, forestry, woodland or arboricultural employees, estate or park rangers, farmers and other landowners or their employees who may have a responsibility for trees in the course of their work. Additionally, this course may be useful for those who work with trees in a voluntary capacity.

Pre-Requisites

There are no pre-requisites.

Duration/Format

1 day

Instructor/Trainee Ratio

Max: 1:14
Min: 2

Course Content

  • Introduction
  • PPE
  • Risk Assessment
  • Legal Framework
  • Tree Surveys
  • Tree Inspections
  • Tree Hazard Assessment
  • Determining the scope and limits of the survey
  • Highways
  • Parks, gardens, woodland
  • Hazardous trees
  • Methodology – what to look for
  • Recording pro-formas
  • Survey / inspection exercise

Venue

Emergency contingency information:

  • Location map reference / venue address
  • Fire /evacuation procedures
  • Fire alarm and extinguisher(s)
  • Telephone number of nearest hospital with emergency service
  • First aid equipment (which complies with the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981
  • Classroom facilities with space and seating for up to 15, with light, heating and power, toilet facilities, tea and coffee provision.
  • Flipchart / whiteboard (for newsprint, flipcharts etc plus pens)
  • Power point projector and screen

Outside:

  • Ideally, a selection of trees with a variety of identifiable signs and symptoms to use as an exercise in tree survey and inspection

Publications included in this package

Lantra Awards workbook for Basic Tree Survey and Inspection, Arboricultural Association publication: 'Tree surveys: a guide to good practice', site specific risk assessment form, certificate claim forms.

Prices

1 day course - £130 + VAT

Dates

For information on course dates, please ring 01305 848454 or email courses@newlandstraining.co.uk.

Places

For information on course places, please ring 01305 848454 or email courses@newlandstraining.co.uk.

Cancellation Policy

The full cost of the course is to be paid before the start of the course.

If your place on the course is cancelled, the following will apply:-

  • 7 days notice - full fee refunded
  • 3 - 7 days notice - half fee refunded *
  • 1-3 days notice - quarter fee refunded *

* - if place can be filled then the full fee will be refunded