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Pesticide Use & Environmental Hazards

  • Workers in yellow shirts and white hard hats standing in a circle outside with equipment.
    July 1, 2023

    Training Tree Crews on Wildland Fire Prevention and Suppression

    By Geoffrey Taylor, MA

    Rancho Tree Service safety personnel provide their annual training using bilingual instruction on the proper usage of a "water buffalo" mobile water tank and pump trailer for use on high-fire-risk job sites. Unless otherwise noted, photos courtesy of the author. [...]

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  • July 23, 2021

    Wildfire Prevention and Suppression Training

    By Don Staruk, With Mark Shipp, CIC, CTSP

    Those directly involved in the tree care industry or, more specifically, in utility-vegetation management can play a role in preventing, or causing, wildfires. Photo courtesy of Josh Caudill. A wildfire can be caused in an instant – a lightning strike, [...]

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  • February 1, 2021

    Cold-Weather Work Safety Precautions

    By Alex Martin, BCMA

    It is important for employers and employees to understand appropriate measures for protecting the individual in the workplace during cold weather. Photos by Robert Knight, Timberland Tree Service, Ltd., courtesy of the author. In cold-weather conditions, we tend to focus [...]

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  • March 1, 2020

    How to Avoid, Protect Yourself from and Recover from a Fire

    By Patricia Chaudoin

    This fire at Petree Arbor, Lawn and Landscape in Louisville, Tennessee, burned for three days. "We lost most of our equipment, including a crane we’d just gotten, and my entire office – computers, desks, everything you accumulate over 20 years [...]

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