• Figure 1. A sample risk-assessment matrix. Courtesy of the author
    April 10, 2024

    The tree care industry faces many challenges regarding safety. From working at heights to working around power lines, and from using heavy machinery and chain saws to driving, tree care workers are involved daily in many high-risk activities. Injuries from [...]

  • Bartlett Tree Experts in Johnson City, Tennessee. Photo courtesy of Scott Prophett.
    April 10, 2024

    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 [...]

  • People with low skills and knowledge of a task often overestimate their ability to accomplish it. TCIA graphic.
    April 10, 2024

    Everyone providing pruning or removal quotes has come across this situation. You pull up to the next appointment at a house in a well-wooded neighborhood. The homeowner greets you with slight disdain as you meet at the door. You walk [...]

  • The hierarchy of controls is a risk-management tool
    April 10, 2024

    Everyone has become familiar with the term PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) over the past few years. Primarily, that comes from the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. So many news stations were telling us to mask up if we value life, while [...]

  • Jeremy Bishop/Unsplash, iStock
    April 10, 2024

    What does leadership mean in our world? What does it mean to me and to others? I’m curious about leadership. Jeremy Bishop/Unsplash, iStock A good friend once gave me her definition of curiosity as “exuberant ignorance.” I love this definition [...]

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