Professional Tree Inspection Course

Our Lantra three-day course aims to provide specific tree inspection training at an advanced level for competent arboriculturists. This will enable you to identify defects from ground level, from a climbed inspection or inspection aided by the use of a Mobile Elevated Working Platform (MEWP)*.

This professional tree training course will train you in how to specify the necessary remedial works and record the inspection process; this would then form a part of a defensible system.

At the end of the course you will undertake an assessment directly related to tree inspection. The course is not aimed at covering report writing; however, presentation of findings will be examined and advice given.

Who is it for?

In order to be considered for this course, you must be an experienced and qualified arboriculturist with an in-depth knowledge of plant and arboricultural science. This will need to include 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. You will also need to be thoroughly experienced in carrying out tree inspections and surveys.

You will be professionally involved in arboriculture – specifically tree inspection.

Course content

The legal framework

Basic inspection

The tree

Visual tree assessment

Principal fungi decay organisms

Mechanical symptoms of defects

Tree inspection equipment

Data recording

Making and writing remedial actions

Hazard evaluation

Introduction to decay detection and measuring equipment