Our aim is to improve and develop best practices and standards in the Arboricultural Industry to enable sustainable management.
Our objective is to protect the safety and health of people and the integrity of the tree industry by the development of an industry license.
To be a TCAA Licensed Arborist, you must:
• Be Fully Insured
• Be Experienced and Trained
• Be Annually Audited
• Adhere to Safework and TCAA Code of Practice
A TCAA licensed arborist has a higher standard of knowledge and experience.
This has been implemented to assist the clients in making the right decision when selecting a suitably qualified arborist and tree company.
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Tree Management Guidlines
The Tree Management Guideline has been written by practicing arborists in response to the increasing role that management require in the risk assessment of trees in their facilities. Written in 2014 and released to the DEC and developed over the following years revised in 2021 and released in 2022 by the TCAA. It will assist the consultant assessor, climber and the manager in relevant documents to understand the use of vTRA-Visual Tree Risk Assessment,TULE-Tree Useful Life Expectancy and matrices.
The document has been commented by peers within the industry leaders. The document has been referred to Safework.
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Jim McArdle