What is Tree Surgery?
Tree Surgery, or Arboriculture, is the care and maintenance of amenity trees during their life, and their careful dismantling and removal when they become diseased or dangerous. It is undertaken in a wide variety of venues - in private gardens, on commercial sites, in public parks, on golf courses, along power lines for utility companies, adjacent to railway lines for track safety, etc. Virtually anywhere there is human habitation, there is potentially treework to do.
It is not surprising therefore that there is a very wide range of companies offering services in this sector, from ‘one man bands’ to national organisations. However, they all have one thing in common – every operative must be trained and certified in the tasks they undertake. The work is often skilled and potentially dangerous, and training and formal assessment is compulsory. Anyone working in the industry must have the relevant Certificates of Competence.
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