Lantra Awards Basic Tree Survey and Inspection
One Day Course
€194 per person, including Lantra Registration fee.
This one day course aims to provide specific tree survey and inspection training at a basic level for Level 1 tree surveyors/ inspectors, contractors, highway engineers, tree wardens, grounds maintenance staff, rangers and other persons of a non-arboricultural background to allow them to identify obvious defects from ground level and then to report their findings to a line manager.
Our course will help you to:
- Understand the legal and safety implications of hazardous trees.
- How maintain your own health and safety while carrying out tree surveys and inspections
- To recognise hazardous trees
- To determine the level of risk
- To decide on an appropriate course of action
- How to collect and the importance of maintaining adequate information.
- To recognise your own limitations.
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: The are no pre-requisites for this course.
Intermediate Tree Inspection Workshop
Two Day course
€366.00 per person.
This 2-day workshop is aimed to help bridge the wide gap between the Lantra Basic Tree Survey & Inspection (BTSI) and the Professional Tree Inspection (PTI) courses. With instructor-led sessions and theory-based presentations, the workshop will guide you through the various stages of understanding the legal framework surrounding the duty of care of tree owners and the need to carry out detailed tree inspections.
Gain practical experience in the field by carrying out inspections on site and receiving one-to-one feedback on your findings to help improve your skills and broaden your knowledge. You’ll also meet other aspiring tree inspectors in similar situations and roles and get the chance to ask questions in a supportive and relaxed environment.
Workshop outcomes By the end of the workshop you will:
- Understand the elements and procedures of tree inspection and tree safety management.
- Be up-to-date with the latest techniques and industry requirements.
- Have practical experience with feedback.
- Have advanced your existing skills and arboricultural knowledge towards the standards expected of a professional tree inspector.
- Be able to further develop your arboriculture knowledge to achieve recognition as a professional tree inspector.
Who the workshop is for?
- Anyone aspiring to carry out tree inspections at a professional standard.
- those trained to a (BTSI) Basic level, aiming for the Professional Tree Inspection (PTI).
- existing professional tree inspectors wishing to consolidate your skills and update your knowledge.
How the workshop is delivered?
- theory based presentations on each element of tree inspection.
- instructor led practical sessions on tree inspection practice and tree knowledge.
- one-to-one and group feedback sessions.
Lantra Awards Professional Tree Inspection
Three day course
€595.00 per person, including the Lantra registration fee
Prospective trainees should be experienced and qualified arboriculturists with an in-depth knowledge of plant and arboricultural science, including a thorough knowledge of wood decaying fungi, identification and interpretation of signs and symptoms of ill health and structural failure across a wide range of tree species and circumstances. They should be thoroughly experienced in carrying out tree inspection and survey.
The three-day course aims to provide specific tree inspection programme at an advanced level for competent arboriculturalists to enable them to reach a level of competence that can be recognised as having received adequate training.
Candidates are required to inspect trees and specify the necessary remedial works and record the inspection process. This would then form part of a defensible system. The course is not aimed at covering report writing however, presentation of findings will be examined and advice given.
Pre-requisites
A minimum of arboricultural qualification at level three or equivalent, plus five years experience in carrying out tree survey and inspection, is expected. As a pre-requisite of attending the course it is fully expected that you will have a detailed knowledge of tree biology, the tree as an undamaged self-optimised structure, biological and mechanical weaknesses, pathology, legislation, remedial options and their likely implications and the British Standard 3998 Recommendations for Treework. Also any other specific arboricultural knowledge such as may affect detection and measurement of tree defects and recommendation of control measures that reduce the risk posed to an acceptable level.
Assessment
The objectives of the course will be assessed, by written question paper, fungi identification and practical tree inspection. At the end of the course candidates will undertake a competence based assessment directly related to tree inspection.
The pass mark for the test is 70% overall and 70% in each of the two tree inspections.
