Private & Custom Arboriculture Safety Training and Education

Hands-on training built around your team, your site, and your risk profile, not a generic classroom seminar.

We deliver private, custom arboriculture safety and technical training for municipalities, tree and landscape companies, special interest groups, military, police, and fire/rescue personnel, naturalists and biologists, and any organization that needs its people working safely around or above trees. Every session is built around your group, not slotted into a fixed public schedule.

Who We Train

Municipal parks and public works departments
Tree care and landscape companies growing or upskilling their crews
Special interest groups and conservation organizations
Military, police, and fire/rescue personnel who need canopy access or rescue capability
Naturalists and biologists who need safe access into the canopy
Engineers, inspectors, and facilities teams who work around trees but don't climb or cut them

Why Train With Us

Built for your group, not a fixed headcount. We scale the number of instructors to match your group size, using instructor-to-participant ratios designed for real learning outcomes and safety, not just a capped classroom.

Delivered wherever your team is. We'll come to you, anywhere. Sessions run at our purpose-built training facility in Surrey, BC, featuring a dedicated climbing tree, spar pole log, six rope access stations, a full range of industry tools, and an on-site arboretum of 100+ tree and plant species, or fully on location at your site, no geographic limit.

Taught by credentialed instructors. Our training team is made up of ISA Certified Arborists and TCIA Certified Treecare Safety Professionals with years of instructional experience, and our curriculum is built to WorkSafeBC Part 26, ANSI Z133, and TCIA standards.

Trusted by municipalities and industry. We've delivered training and consulting for the City of Vancouver, City of Coquitlam, City of Delta, City of Surrey, City of Langley, and City of Richmond, along with organizations like Pitt Meadows Regional Airport, Delta Public Works, Allteck, and DNV/CNV emergency services.

Fully insured. We carry full WCB, Liability, and Errors & Omissions insurance.

What We Offer

From foundational safety to advanced technical skill, our private and custom programs cover rope access and tree climbing, chainsaw operation and storm response, rigging, aerial lift orientation and rescue, hazard and danger tree awareness, tree risk assessment, safe work practice reviews, and tree climber safety assessments. Every program below can be delivered as a standalone session or combined into a custom curriculum built around your goals.

Private & Custom Courses

Emergency Preparedness and Aerial Rescue for Arborists

WorkSafeBC Part 26 requires that arborists working aloft have rescue capability on site, and this course builds it directly with your crew. It's a reps-first, hands-on day: a gear check, brief theory, then continuous rescue scenario practice, with certification earned by demonstrating a real rescue, not just showing up.

Chipper Operations and Safe Work Practices

A wood chipper is one of the most common pieces of equipment on a tree crew, and one of the easiest to get seriously hurt on without proper training. This half-day, hands-on course covers safe operation, inspection, and maintenance for every experience level, from startup procedure through the maintenance intervals that keep it running safely.

Arboriculture Rigging Foundations

Rigging fundamentals don't change based on how your team gets into position, but the technique does. This course builds foundational rigging skill delivered either from an aerial lift or from a climb, whichever matches how your crew actually works.

Aerial Lift Operations & Aerial Rescue Training

If your team has a new lift or new operators, this is where they learn to run it safely and rescue a crew member from it if something goes wrong. 100% hands-on and outdoors, covering aerial lift operation, inspection, and full emergency rescue technique.

Arboriculture Safe Work Practices (SWP) Review

Your climbing crew is only as safe as the procedure they're following. We review and revise your Tree Climbing SWP against WorkSafeBC Part 26 and ANSI Z133, then rebuild it into a document your field staff will actually use.

Cabling and Bracing Trees Workshop

Not every structurally compromised tree needs to come down. This full-day, hands-on workshop trains your team to recognize structural defects, decide when cabling or bracing is the right call, and install and maintain both static and dynamic support systems to ANSI A300 standards. Delivered wherever your team is, with real supervised installation practice, not just a walkthrough of the hardware.

Danger Tree Awareness Training

Recognize hazardous trees before they become an incident, not after. This private, in-field course teaches your team the warning signs, defects, and failure patterns to watch for, and how to communicate what they see clearly enough to get it acted on. Scheduled around your team, delivered wherever you are.

Advanced Tree Risk Assessment Techniques in Partnership with the PNW ISA

Go beyond visual assessment and into the tools that quantify what's actually happening inside the tree, including decay detection with resistance microdrills and sonic tomography. Delivered in partnership with PNW ISA, this advanced Level 3 course is built for experienced assessors, not an entry point into the field.

How It Works

Tell us about your team, your goals, and your timeline.
We build a session scoped to your group size, site, and risk profile.
We deliver it at our Surrey facility or anywhere on location, with instructor ratios matched to your group.
Your team walks away with real, demonstrated skill, not just a certificate of attendance.

Ready to Build a Custom Training Program?

Every organization's risk profile is different, and so is every session we build. Contact us to tell us about your team and we'll put together a proposal tailored to your group.

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