​Refresher – Aerial Tree Rigging City & Guilds CPD

 Aerial Tree Rigging (City & Guilds) CPD​

 

Duration:  2 days

 

Course Dates: ​

Please email/call for availability.​​

Course Cost: £465.50 (+ £93.10 VAT) per person

Venue: Brockham, Surrey

Equipment required - contact us for hire

​

​

​

 

 

 

Pre-requisites: Candidates must hold a City & Guilds Certificate of Competence for Chainsaw Maintenance & Cross-cutting (0039-20 / 0020-03), Felling & Processing Trees up to 380mm (0039-21 / 0020-04), Basic Tree Climbing & Aerial Rescue (0039-22 / 0020-13), Aerial Cutting of Trees with a Chainsaw (0039-23 / 0021-08) and Aerial Tree Rigging (0039-32 / 0021-09) or equivalent Lantra Awards qualification prior to attending this course.

​

 

​This course will refresh trainees with the appropriate techniques and underpinning knowledge to ensure that they continue to be confident when working within forestry, arboriculture or allied industries. It will also ensure awareness of current health and safety legislation, and industry good practice keeping individuals up-to-date and skilled.

The course is designed to be short, sharp and focussed and will provide refresher training for trainees already Lantra Awards trained and/or certificated for this activity.

They are not to be used as a substitute for novice operator training, nor will they offer the wide range of skills needed for inexperienced operators to work safely.

​

Course sessions:

• Identify, inspect and comment upon key parts of the equipment to be used.

• Prepare the equipment for use ensuring the safety of themselves, other people and the environment.

• Operate a chainsaw whilst maintaining a working position within the crown of a tree using a rope and harness.

• Use lowering ropes and other associated equipment to carry out lowering and sectional felling operations.

• Undertake a range of arboriculture operations without risk to themselves, other people or the environment.

 

Certification:

Learners completing this course will receive a City & Guilds Digital Badge of Competence which will be available on the candidates City & Guilds account for Aerial Tree Rigging Refresher.​