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 pro-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.
Pay by instalments
The College offers an instalment plan for Further Education and Higher Education courses to students where the total amount payable at the point of enrolment is £200 or more. Within the scheme there is an ability to pay up to 6 instalments, depending on the length of the courses and the final payment must be paid at least a month before the end of the course.