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Safety

  • Grapple Saws Debris Management
    July 1, 2025

    Grapple Saws Revolutionize Debris Management for Bob Ray Company

    By DANIEL SHULTS

    The adoption of grapple trucks and grapple saws transformed debris management in several ways for Bob Ray Co. Inc., an accredited, 55-year TCIA member company based in Louisville, Kentucky. For instance, the company was out in early May 2025 performing [...]

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  • Pesticide Handling
    June 12, 2025

    Part 5: Pesticide Handling, Spill Response and Maintenance

    By Kathy Glassey

    Pixabay Despite decades of experience in the pesticide industry, certain areas of pesticide handling and safety still pose challenges. Every stakeholder, manufacturer, distributor and end user has a responsibility to ensure safe and legal handling, transportation and application [...]

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  • tree care safety programs
    June 1, 2025

    Developing Safety Programs That Stick

    By DAVID VINCENT

    Safety programs are the lifeline of every company – they ensure everyone goes home at the end of the day in the same condition they arrived. Yet too often these programs become ineffective. They’re rolled out with fanfare, only to [...]

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  • Subcontracted Tree Care
    June 5, 2025

    Safety Update: Who Is a Tree Worker?

    By John Ball, Ph.D., CTSP and Mike Tilford, CTSP

    Who is a tree worker? The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) spent a lot of time and effort defining this – through the questions they asked of small business representatives during SBREFA (Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act) – [...]

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  • Pesticide-Application
    May 13, 2025

    Part 4: Understanding FIFRA Compliance for Pesticide-Application Companies

    By Kathy Glassey

      As a pesticide-application company, compliance with regulations is not just a legal requirement, it’s a fundamental part of operating safely and responsibly. One of the most important regulations you need to be aware of is the Federal Insecticide, [...]

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