57 pages
Safety, PPE and rescue
What safety regulators and standards bodies say about tree work: protective gear, aerial rescue, first aid, electrical hazards, work zones and the paperwork on site.
Topics
Every guide, tool and directory page on the site, sorted into eighteen subjects. A page can sit in more than one subject.
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147 pages
Certification and training
Credentials tree workers are asked for, country by country: ISA, TCIA, UK tickets, European Tree Worker, safety cards, apprenticeships and how each is kept current.
104 pages
Law, permits and standards
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.
45 pages
Tree ID, pests and diseases
Identifying trees, the pests and diseases that regulators track, where each is regulated, and who to report a sighting to.
2 pages
Tree risk and decay
How official guides and qualifications describe tree risk assessment, decay, structural defects and the reports that follow.
69 pages
Pruning, planting and plant health
Pruning and planting standards, soil and roots, plant health care and pesticide licensing, as the standards and extension services write them.
12 pages
Climbing gear and ropes
Saddles, ropes, lanyards, connectors and the standards and inspection rules behind them.
5 pages
Climbing systems
What codes and training bodies say about climbing systems, tie-ins, anchors and work positioning. These pages describe the rules; they do not teach climbing.
20 pages
Rigging, felling and storm work
What codes and regulators say about rigging, felling, cranes, storm cleanup and wildfire work, plus the arithmetic tools for log weight and loads.
21 pages
Chainsaws and hand tools
Saw rules, saw tickets, protective clothing labels, fuel mix arithmetic and the official pages behind them.
34 pages
Machines and vehicles
Chippers, stump grinders, lifts, cranes, trucks and trailers: the rules, licences and inspections that apply to them.
32 pages
Injuries, health and wellbeing
Injury figures, reporting rules, health hazards, mental health support and what happens after an injury, from the regulators and support bodies that publish them.
50 pages
Utility and urban forestry
Line clearance rules, utility vegetation management, city tree programs, street trees, inventories and canopy.
44 pages
Running a tree business
Starting, insuring and running a tree business: registration, insurance, contracts, tax offices and the calculators that use your own numbers.
28 pages
Hiring, pay and careers
Official pay tables, minimum pay rules, career paths, apprenticeships, job boards and working abroad.
57 pages
Firewood, milling and forestry
Moving and selling firewood, wood weights and volumes, milling, chips and mulch, and woodland rules.
16 pages
Questions tree owners ask
The questions tree owners bring to arborists, with the official pages that answer them. For tree owners there will be a separate section; these pages help workers point owners to the right office.
9 pages
Culture and community
Associations, chapters, competitions, events, reading, women in tree work and the groups that support the trade.