Tree Risk Surveys, Assessment & Management
Trees situated close to property or on publicly accessible land present potential risk to both personal and public safety. Landowners are responsible for damage or injury caused by trees on their land and have a duty of care to prevent foreseeable harm occurring to people from any hazardous trees situated on their property. Trees need to be assessed regularly and managed to keep risks of causing harm or injury low.
Treework Environmental Practice offers professional tree risk assessments that enable the landowner or manager to minimise the risk of damage or injury caused by trees in their care. A tree risk survey is an essential component in any system that demonstrates responsible management of tree risk.
Our highly experienced and efficient tree surveyors undertake surveys ranging from detailed individual tree inspections to inventories of large populations of trees (typically 5,000 to 50,000+).
Treework Environmental Practice has developed a database with GIS (MyTrees) for tree population management. This enables us to efficiently survey trees and provide high quality reports and management services.
Tree Risk Surveys
- Site mapping according to risk
- Tree Risk inspection inventories
- Intermediate tree inspections
- Detailed individual tree inspection
- Internal decay detection and trunk decay mapping
- Tree Pulling Tests
- Excavation and assessment of tree roots
- Trees plotted onto GIS or using GPS/Laser
- Quantified Tree Risk Assessment (QTRA)
We can provide the following outputs:
- Maps of tree positions with legends for easy identification of tree characteristics
- Data in a range of standard digital formats for integration in database management systems and GIS
- Analyses and reports on findings
- Easy to read schedules of survey data
- Prioritised works schedules
- Works orders
- Archiving of completed work
- Assessment of implications for future policy
From single trees to entire populations, our tree risk management approach means that we take on much of the burden of responsibility for tree safety from the tree owner. As well as undertaking tree risk surveys Treework Environmental Practice provide a comprehensive tree management service
