Basic Tree Inspection Lantra Awards
This one-day course will provide you with specific tree survey and inspection training at a basic level, and is ideal if you are from a non-arboricultural background, or have limited arboricultural knowledge – you could be working as a contractor, highway engineer, tree warden, grounds maintenance staff and a range of other roles. You will gain the knowledge needed to identify obvious defects from ground level and report your findings to a line manager.
Course content
This course covers:
- Personal protective equipment
- 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 pri-formas
- Survey/inspection exercise.
Additional information
To take part in this course you must bring PPE (personal protective equipment) and other tools and equipment as listed on the joining instructions. You can also view the PPE and tools list here. These will be emailed to you a few weeks before the course is due to start – please contact us to confirm you have the required items.