If your company had 10 or fewer employees for the last full calendar year, you do not need to record and keep OSHA injury and illness records.* If you had 11 or more employees last year, this guidance applies [...]

While it requires making some assumptions, recent fatality data indicates the rate of on-the-job deaths in the tree care industry may be as much as 11 times those of other industries. Meghan Schiereck/Unsplash There were 5,486 fatal work injuries recorded [...]

TCIA annually presents safety awards recognizing individual and/or team actions that may have prevented an injury or saved a life, and for company programs or directives aimed at improving safety. Following here are the awards presented this year for operations [...]

Competency with a task means being able to perform that task correctly and safely, without direct supervision. Proficiency is a high level of competency. TCIA file photo courtesy of the Women’s Tree Climbing Workshop, a TCIA corporate member company headquartered [...]

Brett Nelson, owner of Good Earth Tree Care in Grand Rapids, Michigan, suffered a serious fall from a tree and chose to share his experience with us. The available information suggests there might be unanticipated issues associated with his climbing [...]