Oh great!
The very proponents of de-regulation in govt, are now throwin down red, white and blue for stricter regulation of the tree industry?
If you can't distinguish your work from a cheap hack's, and find a client base willing to pay for your services?
Find another line of work darling!
Is peeker even qualified to post in the commercial arborist forum?
jomoco
Given your position on WTC accidents I am not to sure what this post is about apart from being inflammatory.
I am an employee. I am responsible for my own and everyone else's safety. If I see someone whether it is the boss or the brand new laborer doing something that is going to get them or someone else hurt, I stop them. If I don't stop them in time they will be covered by insurance or WC as the boss is no fool.
But I would much rather have stopped them and prevented an accident than knowing they will never dance again because their left stump is too short.
If a car speeds through our work site (and I have had one parked in the chipper), and strikes an employee then until such a time as the drivers estate (because I will
em') settles the claim for damages by the employee, then they will be covered by WC which is the bosses responsibility.
If I send them out on the road without hi-vis and traffic management in place then it is my responsibility. I assume my fellow employees are lambs when it comes to danger.
I want mandatory training so that the industry I chose to work in evolves and becomes more respected. Then when I tell people the tree in the backyard cannot be topped they accept my verdict instead of getting some idiot with a chainsaw and no ethics to do the butchery for them. As an industry we are well respected for our brawn, it is well past time we were respected for our brains as well.
Every day you take part in logistics management, traffic management, physics in about half a dozen different fields, mathematics, chemistry, biology, botany, mechanics, etc. Then throw in climbing which probably less than 1% of the population is even capable of doing, and only 1% of that would have the guts to do it.
As far as the clearance guys go they too are professionals. Us guys who do amenity tree work may not like their methods or results but they have a job to do and achieve amazing production in a very hazardous situation doing a job that has to be done. I would rather see a topped tree under a HV line than a burned out forest or house because a tree did contact a line.
