Apologies if this has been brought up before.
In BC, by Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, to fall a 6" and larger diameter tree, you must be a "Certified Faller". Unless you can be grandfathered in by past experience, you are required to take a $9000 course and apprenticeship to become certified. Naturally, the arborist community is fighting this requirement, as the regulations are entirely aimed at industrial falling and not urban forestry. And if you take one step off the ground in spurs, you are no longer falling.
Anyways, it's interesting reading.
http://www.bcforestsafe.org/content-program-fallers/program-fallers-1-overview.htm#faller_cert
In BC, by Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, to fall a 6" and larger diameter tree, you must be a "Certified Faller". Unless you can be grandfathered in by past experience, you are required to take a $9000 course and apprenticeship to become certified. Naturally, the arborist community is fighting this requirement, as the regulations are entirely aimed at industrial falling and not urban forestry. And if you take one step off the ground in spurs, you are no longer falling.
Anyways, it's interesting reading.
http://www.bcforestsafe.org/content-program-fallers/program-fallers-1-overview.htm#faller_cert