IAA Tree Risk Training

[John Paul Sanborn]

You can find the brochure at the IAA website, linked at the bottom of the email.

FW: IAA Tree Risk Training
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From:
"Hauer, Richard"
Tree Risk Management final.pdf (439KB)

See the note below for Tree Risk Assessment Training in the Chicago area through the Illinois Arborist Association.



Richard Hauer, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Urban Forestry
800 Reserve Street
College of Natural Resources
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Stevens Point, WI 54481


Phone: 715-346-3642
Fax: 715-346-3624
e-mail: r

http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/forestry/faculty/Hauer/





From: April Toney
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 7:54 AM
To: Hauer, Richard
Subject: IAA Tree Risk Training



Hi Rich,



Would you be able to place this on your calendar or distribute?



Tree Risk Assessment Training -Why should it be important to you?



Municipalities, park districts, counties, and State agencies are charged with managing public spaces (e.g., highways, streets, sidewalks, preserves and parks). The trees associated with these areas also fall under the management responsibilities of public agencies. This is due, in part, to the duty to provide a safe environment for the users of their public space. With this duty comes heightened responsibility and liability.



Arborists also have heightened liability because an expectation exists that arborist have been educated about all the risks that are associated with their field. Moreover, arborists may be called upon to inform a client about managing risk without the knowledge to do so. This legal responsibility is not clearly defined in the United States. This vagueness, in fact, contributes to and supports a broad range of interpretation by attorneys.



Public entities and arborists can increase their control regarding tree risk liabilities and accountability by implementing a reasonable tree risk management program. Staff training is a crucial part of a proactive tree risk management strategy. The goals of an effective tree risk management program are twofold. The first, is to reduce the potential risk of physical harm from occurring to the public or client. The second is to provide the basis for defining a defensible program if litigation were to occur. The former reduces the risk of physical harm. The latter reduces the risk of financial loss. Agencies or companies might achieve both by developing and implementing a simple risk management strategy.



IAA is hosting a two-day Tree Risk Assessment Training in four locations:



September 13 & 14 in Oak Park, IL

September 15 & 16 in Oak Park, IL

September 21 & 22 in Springfield, IL

September 23 & 24 in Edwardsville, IL



This course trains staff to identify and make informed mitigation choices on trees that may pose a potential risk of failure. An informed staff demonstrates one component of due diligence that makes for a safe environment and a defensible program. The course will be divided between time in the class and field. The primary focus of discussion will be centered on providing participant with the high level of competency in understanding tree biology; tree mechanics; the different forces applied to trees; structural defects and the interaction of all the factors on determining failure potential. An additional focus will be on developing achievable and defensible tree risk management strategies.



Subject matter was developed for both municipal foresters and private sector arborists in mind. Numerous thought-provoking failure and analysis demonstrations have been created specifically for this course.



CEU’s available.

Cost $150 – and includes a CD of presentations and handouts, lunch for the first day and breaks.



You can’t afford to miss this training!



Registration form is attached to this e-mail or



Follow this link to sign up on-line: http://www.illinoisarborist.org/treeriskmanagement.htm



April Toney

Executive Director

Illinois Arborist Association

PO Box 860

Antioch, IL. 60002

Phone: 877-617-8887

Fax: 262-857-6677

Website: www.illinoisarborist.org

 

[BC WetCoast]

You can find the brochure at the IAA website, linked at the bottom of the email.

FW: IAA Tree Risk Training
...
From:
"Hauer, Richard"
Tree Risk Management final.pdf (439KB)

See the note below for Tree Risk Assessment Training in the Chicago area through the Illinois Arborist Association.



Richard Hauer, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Urban Forestry
800 Reserve Street
College of Natural Resources
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Stevens Point, WI 54481


Phone: 715-346-3642
Fax: 715-346-3624
e-mail: r

http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/forestry/faculty/Hauer/





From: April Toney
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 7:54 AM
To: Hauer, Richard
Subject: IAA Tree Risk Training



Hi Rich,



Would you be able to place this on your calendar or distribute?



Tree Risk Assessment Training -Why should it be important to you?



Municipalities, park districts, counties, and State agencies are charged with managing public spaces (e.g., highways, streets, sidewalks, preserves and parks). The trees associated with these areas also fall under the management responsibilities of public agencies. This is due, in part, to the duty to provide a safe environment for the users of their public space. With this duty comes heightened responsibility and liability.



Arborists also have heightened liability because an expectation exists that arborist have been educated about all the risks that are associated with their field. Moreover, arborists may be called upon to inform a client about managing risk without the knowledge to do so. This legal responsibility is not clearly defined in the United States. This vagueness, in fact, contributes to and supports a broad range of interpretation by attorneys.



Public entities and arborists can increase their control regarding tree risk liabilities and accountability by implementing a reasonable tree risk management program. Staff training is a crucial part of a proactive tree risk management strategy. The goals of an effective tree risk management program are twofold. The first, is to reduce the potential risk of physical harm from occurring to the public or client. The second is to provide the basis for defining a defensible program if litigation were to occur. The former reduces the risk of physical harm. The latter reduces the risk of financial loss. Agencies or companies might achieve both by developing and implementing a simple risk management strategy.



IAA is hosting a two-day Tree Risk Assessment Training in four locations:



September 13 & 14 in Oak Park, IL

September 15 & 16 in Oak Park, IL

September 21 & 22 in Springfield, IL

September 23 & 24 in Edwardsville, IL



This course trains staff to identify and make informed mitigation choices on trees that may pose a potential risk of failure. An informed staff demonstrates one component of due diligence that makes for a safe environment and a defensible program. The course will be divided between time in the class and field. The primary focus of discussion will be centered on providing participant with the high level of competency in understanding tree biology; tree mechanics; the different forces applied to trees; structural defects and the interaction of all the factors on determining failure potential. An additional focus will be on developing achievable and defensible tree risk management strategies.



Subject matter was developed for both municipal foresters and private sector arborists in mind. Numerous thought-provoking failure and analysis demonstrations have been created specifically for this course.



CEU’s available.

Cost $150 – and includes a CD of presentations and handouts, lunch for the first day and breaks.



You can’t afford to miss this training!



Registration form is attached to this e-mail or



Follow this link to sign up on-line: http://www.illinoisarborist.org/treeriskmanagement.htm



April Toney

Executive Director

Illinois Arborist Association

PO Box 860

Antioch, IL. 60002

Phone: 877-617-8887

Fax: 262-857-6677

Website: www.illinoisarborist.org

Having several methodologies for assessing hazard trees is ultimately going to lead to problems for those doing the assessments. We now have a pretty objective methodology developed by the Pac Northwest ISA and accepted by Worksafe BC (Tree Risk Assessment in Urban Area).

But I can see where someone will do an assessment using one methodology, the tree will fail and in court another methodology will show something different. Then the experts will battle it out in court. What a mess.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Having several methodologies for assessing hazard trees is ultimately going to lead to problems for those doing the assessments. We now have a pretty objective methodology developed by the Pac Northwest ISA and accepted by Worksafe BC (Tree Risk Assessment in Urban Area).

But I can see where someone will do an assessment using one methodology, the tree will fail and in court another methodology will show something different. Then the experts will battle it out in court. What a mess.

That is always the case, no matter what. Around here it is hard to get assessments done, people just want a bid "just tell me if it should be trimmed or removed!"

Then if you do get to do the assessment, they flip out with the disclaimer page, even if you said the same thing during the interview. "no tree is completely safe, any tree can fail under the wrong conditions, meteorologists use tree failure patterns to estimate wind speed and direction after storms"

 

[treeseer]

I don't think that Rich will be much different than the pnw program.

 

[BC WetCoast]

That is always the case, no matter what. Around here it is hard to get assessments done, people just want a bid "just tell me if it should be trimmed or removed!"

Then if you do get to do the assessment, they flip out with the disclaimer page, even if you said the same thing during the interview. "no tree is completely safe, any tree can fail under the wrong conditions, meteorologists use tree failure patterns to estimate wind speed and direction after storms"

We work in about 10 municipalities, with about half of them having some form of tree retention bylaw. In most cases, a tree cutting permit is required for any tree over 8" dbh and an arborist report is required to support the application. So assessments are pretty common here.