Tree Surveys For Schools

EDUCATIONAL SECTOR

Tree Safety Management for Schools

Schools have a legal obligation and duty of care to make sure all the trees on or within a site are safe. It is the responsibility of the school to ensure this is implemented regardless of how many trees there are on the land.

By carrying out routine tree inspections it is possible to make an early identification of poor tree health and decay in trees so that schools can bring in Contractors to manage unsafe trees. Furthermore, by having a rolling program of tree inspections, management and monitoring schools can demonstrate they are meeting their legal duty of care to safeguard staff, pupils and visitors.

All of our consultants who undertake visual tree assessments (VTA), professional members of the Arboriculture Association hold Lantra Awards Certificate for Professional Tree Inspections, Enhanced DBS Certification and are licensed QTRA tree risk assessors that have carried out tree safety and risk surveys for 60 educational sites across the UK for schools, colleges, university's, for local and national educational bodies, academy chains.  We have Professional Indemnity insurance up to £1 million and Public Liability for £5 million with Arborisk

TREE SAFTEY IN SCHOOLS

Our tree health & safety audits are an early warning system for school managers. Our tree management plans give a prioritized schedule of tree work so that tree risk can be reduced to a reasonable level.  Our work allows the clients to demonstrate they had met their duty of care to pupils, staff and visitors.

We can prepared a tree inventory and devised a prioritized schedule of tree works so tree contractors can easily carry out the tree risk management works. We only recommended tree works essential reducing tree risk so that school budgets were not exhausted on unnecessary work. We use tree management software and survey equipment from Pear Technology for fast and efficient data capture, digital mapping and plan production.​ We also have the latest tree decay detection equipment if defects in trees further investigation.

Tree Assessments should be considered if:

• Defects such as deadwood, fallen or split branches, cavities, and decayed timber are visible signs that a tree presents a reasonably foreseeable risk of injury to school children or property.
  
• When a tree poses a potential threat or hazard to pupils, teachers, or parents i.e. playgrounds, pathways, sports fields, etc.
  
• If there are any plans to extend the school, playground, sports pitches or outdoor modular buildings and nearby trees could be an issue (BS5837 Tree Survey & Report).
  
• Or would like a tree management plan for your educational site, In addition, having a tree survey and tree management plan in place can provide great aesthetics, a safer environment, and can be finally beneficial. The lack of a tree management plan for the mature tree population could see mechanical failure causing destruction to property, and vehicles, or death and injury to staff or the public.

Below are a few of the schools, colleges, trusts and companies we have carryout out tree risk surveys on there sites.

Want a tree safety survey for your school?

We can provide a cost-effective survey programme to help you manage tree risk and remain compliant.