What statutes, regulators and standards bodies say about tree work and trees: workplace rules, tree protection and permits, wildlife law, licensing and the standards themselves.
119 pages in this topic. Each guide names its sources and the date they were read.
A table of what the OSHA logging standard, WorkSafeBC, HSE, the Irish HSA, SafeWork NSW, WorkSafe Victoria and WorkSafe New Zealand say about distances around a felling, escape routes, hung trees and weather, with a page for each place that has enough of its own facts.
OSHA has no tree care standard.
OSHA has no rule written for tree care, so its tree care page and 2021 inspection memo point to general industry standards.
What each regulator or statute says about a worker refusing or stopping work that is unsafe: the thresholds, the steps, and who is told.
Each of the five countries covers tree work through a different mix of law, regulator guidance and industry standards.
National pages only go so far.
A dated log of changes to rules, standards and official guidance that touch tree work, newest first, each date as the official page prints it and each entry linked to that page.
Safety regulators, licensing boards, pesticide offices and plant health agencies, state by state.
ANSI Z133 is the US safety standard for tree care work.
Three written standards set out what good pruning means in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
One lookup table of the standards tree work meets: ANSI Z133 and A300, the British Standards, the Australian and joint Australian and New Zealand standards, and the EN and ISO numbers on helmets, chainsaw clothing, harnesses and ropes.
First publication, revision and replacement dates for the ANSI Z133 safety standard, BS 3998, BS 5837, AS 4373, AS 4970, the New Zealand code of practice for arboriculture and the SafeWork NSW tree works code, taken only from each standards body's or regulator's own catalogue and history pages.
A dated log of changes to rules, standards and official guidance that touch tree work, newest first, each date as the official page prints it and each entry linked to that page.
What each regulator or statute says about a worker refusing or stopping work that is unsafe: the thresholds, the steps, and who is told.
Each of the five countries covers tree work through a different mix of law, regulator guidance and industry standards.
Which written records the law or a regulator asks for around tree work, and who they apply to, country by country.
HSE, the devolved bodies, plant health, forestry and qualification bodies.
How tree protection is looked up in the four UK nations: what the regulations, the government pages and 20 council pages say about protected trees, conservation areas and felling licences, and which office decides.
A city by city lookup of what Canadian city pages and bylaws say is protected or needs a permit for work on trees, with the size threshold as each page writes it and the office that decides.
A city-by-city lookup of what each city's own pages say about permits for street trees and protected private trees, with the size thresholds as written and the office that decides.
The kinds of legal tree protection a crew can run into in five countries, with what official pages say.
In Australia and New Zealand the tree rules sit with councils and with state or district planning rules.
Seven jobs, six countries: which official body covers workplace safety, compensation, pesticides, plant health, tree permits, wildlife and commercial vehicles, with a link to its own page.
What each country's wildlife agencies say about active nests, bat roosts and protected animals in trees that are being worked on, and who they say to call.
Agencies give bird nesting dates in very different forms: a zone table in Canada, a closed period for hedges in Ireland and Northern Ireland, a species note in the United States and no dates at all on the England bird page.
Which state contractor licensing laws name tree work, read from California's and Oregon's contractor boards and Washington's contractor registration statute, with a page for each.
Four state boards say in writing that a tree business must print its licence or registration number on advertising, and two of them also say how big the number must be on a vehicle.
Does any law say you need a licence to do tree work?
What official pages say a new tree business has to register or hold in each country, from state tree licences in the US to tax numbers in Australia and New Zealand.
After a declared emergency, state offices publish what changes for contractors: price limits, licence suspensions and contract wording.
A handful of states write a license, exam or registration for tree work into law.
Seven jobs, six countries: which official body covers workplace safety, compensation, pesticides, plant health, tree permits, wildlife and commercial vehicles, with a link to its own page.
The legal pay floors that apply to tree workers in the five countries, as the official pages state them, with the date each took effect.
What the tree protection standards for construction cover, who publishes them, which edition is current, and what city pages say about protection zones and fencing.
Three statutes in the United Kingdom and Queensland deal with who may go onto a neighbour's land to work on a tree or hedge: a court access order in England and Wales, tribunal orders in Queensland, and the entry powers of councils under the high hedge Acts.
Which statutes and official pages deal with a neighbour's tree or hedge in the United Kingdom, Ireland, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia, New Zealand, British Columbia and seven US states, with the section numbers.
Where the tree work regulators of the United Kingdom, Ireland, New South Wales and New Zealand publish prosecutions, with a table of what each country page holds.
The directory of regulators and official schemes for each country on the site.
The Health and Safety Authority, plant health, forestry, qualifications and the other Irish bodies tree work deals with.
Safety regulators, workers' compensation boards, pesticide and plant health offices, province by province.
Safety regulators, licensing, plant health and biosecurity offices, state by state.
WorkSafe, ACC, biosecurity and the other New Zealand bodies tree work deals with.
Workplace safety, plant health and forestry authorities and the arboriculture bodies in seven European countries.