Depends on your state, in PA...EHAP dont mean crap!!! & it shouldnt, honestly you need to work around power not read about it!
Who said anything about just reading about it?
a good LCTT apprenticeship union/non-union will provide you the classroom time & field time, where im at you are required to have 2000 classroom hours & minimum 18 months training time under a certified/qualified line clearance tree trimmer!
Sounds like overkill, 2000 hours of spoon feeding, but I can see where some might need that kind of thing to make sure they get it.
Ehap...I cant stand that, what a complete BS smoke n mirrors giving of false knowledge moneygrab crap!! here the employer doesnt certify you, the department of labor & industry certify you!
What's false about it? How is it any more or less a money grab than anything else? Your way is free? If OHSA recognizes it, how is it
complete BS? (Disclaimer: I'm not an OHSA devotee per se)
just find a line clearance company & train with them, no EHAP course
or utility specialist cert through ISA is gonna do anything for you, your first time up 60 ft & removing minor overhang.....yeah try & recall what the EHAP manual said at that particular time, LOL Ive seen guys from ACRT come out & think they`re gonna dazzle me with their talent......its a little different than back at the ranch.......I love watching them suit up, run up the tree & then BAM....uh oh , they turn pale, you can smell the fear...oh it delights me!
Do you even know what the tcia website states about ehap? No one is suggesting he just needs to read a manual. That isn't what it is all about. What, you never picked up a manual or book in 2000 hours of classroom? I'll venture to bet that there are more than a few line clearance companies that incorporate EHAP. Seems to have worked for me, but hey, it's not really rocket science.
well..... then I gotta climb up or bucket in and talk em through it, I ask em...what did your book say? after stuttering for a minute or two they spit out something that doesnt apply, well give that a try, I`ll watch!! LMFAO
I fail to see the humor. So you get some cheap laughs from acrt rookies, congrats. You'd let someone do something around power that wasn't right, sit back, watch, and laugh? Seems to me you must have been dazing through some of those 2000 hours of classroom work, or you’re maniacal. Perhaps both, certainly doesn't say much for your training or character.
point is: the best training you will get is from a fellow Line trimmer along with classroom fundamentals....but no ehap or isa is gonna do it for ya!
I beg to differ, especially in light of what I'm reading here, one can grasp fundamentals outside of someone's classroom from different sources and be just as well off. I guess part of the lesson here is, be careful who you get. They just might have a superiority complex flawlessly seasoned with delinquency.
Unity Arborist,
I'd ask your Davey man what is required, not everywhere is overrun with this kind of nonsense. If an EHAP program will suffice, and since you'd be the employer, I can't see why you couldn't hire an experienced utility arborist that is EHAP qualified to help facilitate that program for you and your employees.