Lantra Highway Tree Inspection

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Lantra Highway Tree Inspection

Who is this for?

Identifying hazardous trees is a vital part of ensuring our highways stay safe. This Lantra training course is designed to help you recognise and then report issues to an appropriate expert. It’s a one-day course with assessment that will give you the knowledge to be able to identify potential hazards on the highway network.

This course is for people who are already working in, or are looking to work in, the highway network; Highway Tree inspection is aimed at highway personnel, to enable them to inspect highway trees for obvious defects.

Duration:

1 days Training

Attendees:

max. 12 per course

Venue:

This is normally completed at mwmac Ltd, near Builth Wells, Powys.
If you have enough people for a full course, we are able to run this course on your site (subject to a pre-course visit).

Pre-requisites:

None

Qualification:

This is a training only course – Lantra Highway Tree Inspection

CERTIFICATE TYPE:

Lantra Certificate of Training

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

State the legal and safety implications of hazardous trees
Maintain your own health and safety while carrying out Basic Tree Survey and Inspection
Recognise hazardous trees
Determine level of risk
Decide on an appropriate course of action
Collect and maintain adequate information
Identify obvious defects by visual inspection of the trees from ground level with the aid of binoculars, mallet and a probe: this may include an initial inspection by drive-by
Record defects and place the tree in a broad category of risk rating
Identify the required action upon finding a tree with an obvious defect.

Course Information Sheet:

Course Information Sheet – Lantra Highway Tree Inspection