Part 6: Work Practices Near an Electrical Hazard
Part 1 of Chapter 4, Safe Work Practices (TCI Magazine, March 2024), covered the job hazard analysis (JHA), work plan and job briefing. This article, Part 2 of Chapter 4, Safe Work Practices, focuses on arboricultural operations near overhead power and communication lines. Personal protective equipment Personal protective equipment (PPE) – helmet, eye protection, hearing […]
Curiosity in Leadership
What does leadership mean in our world? What does it mean to me and to others? I’m curious about leadership. A good friend once gave me her definition of curiosity as “exuberant ignorance.” I love this definition because it brings a positive tone to the phenomenon of “not knowing” and the word “ignorance,” which is […]
TCIA Presents Safety Awards for 2023 Operations
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 in 2023, including the type of award; the individual, crew members or company being recognized; […]
The Tree Stood Alone
Dr. Don Williams, former head of the Ornamental Horticulture Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, was a very demanding professor to his students. He was also a very wise individual and mentor to hundreds, if not thousands, of students and professionals in the green industry. It would be appropriate to say that he was a […]
Zero Energy?
In the aftermath of the 1998 ice storm in Maine, while crown cleaning a large maple over a section of cemetery and road, I remember thinking, “Someone is going to have a handful taking this tree down some day.” A few years later, I was removing some low branches from the same tree over the […]