Danger Tree Awareness Training

Danger Tree Awareness Training

Private & Custom Group Training — Scheduled at Your Convenience

If your work takes you underneath trees, you don't need to become an arborist to keep yourself and your crew safer around them. You need to know what a tree hazard actually looks like, understand how a healthy-looking tree can quietly become a dangerous one, and be able to describe what you're seeing clearly enough that the right person can act on it. That's what this day is built to do.

This one-day course combines classroom instruction with guided outdoor observation so your team isn't just learning warning signs from a slide deck. They're finding them on real trees.

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Who This Course Is For

This course is built for people who work or spend time around trees but aren't tree risk specialists themselves:

  • Maintenance and operations staff

  • Parks and facilities personnel

  • Groundskeepers and landscapers

  • Engineers, inspectors, and supervisors

A note on scope: this is a risk awareness and communication course, not arborist-level diagnosis or tree work. Your team will leave knowing what to look for and who to call, not how to fix it themselves.

Why This Course Matters

Recognition over technique. Most incidents involving trees aren't caused by a lack of skill. They're caused by a hazard nobody flagged in time. This course closes that gap.
Classroom and field, together. We build the vocabulary indoors, then go find the real thing outside, on real trees, under guidance.
Scheduled around your team, not a fixed date. We coordinate timing directly with your organization so the whole crew can attend together.

What Your Team Will Learn

  • What makes a tree potentially dangerous

  • Common ways trees fail in streets, parks, and managed landscapes

  • Key warning signs to look for when working near trees

  • Basic tree defects, diseases, and failure profiles

  • Risk features commonly found in street and park trees

  • How to communicate tree risk observations clearly and consistently

  • When and how to escalate concerns to qualified arborists

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Booking for a Team or Organization? Contact us and we'll arrange a session tailored to your crew.

Andrew MacLellan