Utility Arboriculture Courses
8/10/2011 11:50 AM EST
For immediate release
Two newly-revised Utility Arboriculture courses, ‘Site Safety Awareness’ and ‘Site Operations’ are now available from Lantra Awards for people working in proximity to electrical equipment for the purpose of maintaining or clearing trees and vegetation.
The ‘Utility Arboriculture Site Safety Awareness’ course is aimed at people working in arboriculture, forestry, agriculture, horticulture, woodland industries, local authorities, conservation and construction. It prepares anyone who will be ultimately working in the proximity of electrical equipment or close enough where it would represent a danger.
Available as a two-day course for novice learners and a one-day course for those with experience and those seeking recertification, it combines classroom based learning with practical onsite experience.
Learners on the ‘Site Safety Awareness’ course will learn about:
• The need for vegetation management in relation to electrical distribution networks
• The ways in which electricity can cause harm
• Being able to demonstrate basic electrical knowledge for working within Proximity Zones of power lines
• Conductivity relevant to sapwood, wood smoke, ropes and ladders
• The minimum distances to ground and electrical conductors.
The second course, ‘Utility Arboriculture Site Operations’ focusses on the use of insulated rods, tree felling and climbing. It is aimed at people working in overhead line clearance operations and utility arboriculture. It also provides the learner with valuable experience on identifying the tree, how to prune it, the possible hazards, safe disposal of prunings and any other actions that should be taken with regards to tree preservation.
As with the ‘Site Safety Awareness’ course, this is offered to novices as a two-day course and as a one-day course for experienced learners.
Learners on the ‘Site Operations’ course will learn about:
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Tree identification, hazard and health
• Legal and environmental constraints
• Identification of electrical plant and apparatus
• Ground clearances for overhead lines and associated equipment
• Site work safety
• Pruning principles and branch removal using pruning attachments on insulated rods
• Aerial and ground based tree work
• Clearing the site and equipment.
To find out more about the two updated Utility Arboriculture courses, visit
http://www.lantra-awards.co.uk/catalogue/utilarb.aspx, email
, or call 08457 078007. To find out more about Lantra Awards visit
www.lantra-awards.co.uk.
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Lantra Awards Press Office
Samuel Zelmer-Jackson, PR Co-ordinator
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About Lantra Awards
Lantra Awards, one of the UK’s leading awarding and accrediting organisations, offers and develops national qualifications in a range of subject areas related to the land-based and environmental industries. It also offers provision for the voluntary and construction sectors.
Its delivers courses through a network of more than 500 training providers, and more than 50,000 learners attend its technical awards courses each year.
Lantra Awards is a registered charity and wholly owned subsidiary of Lantra, the Sector Skills Council for the land-based and environmental sectors.
For more information see
www.lantra-awards.co.uk.