Description
This Best Management Practices (BMP) publication is intended to serve as a guide for arborists to assess tree risk as accurately and consistently as possible, to evaluate that risk, and to recommend measures that achieve an acceptable level of risk.
Details
This 2017, second edition BMP is intended to serve as a guide for arborists to assess tree risk as accurately and consistently as possible, to evaluate that risk, and to recommend measures that achieve an acceptable level of risk.
Topics include risk assessment basics and types of risk associated with trees; levels and scope and tree risk assessment; assessing and evaluating risk from tree failures; tree risk categorization; risk reporting; and tree risk mitigation, including preventive and remedial actions.
- Risk Assessment Basics
- Assessing Targets, Sites, and Trees
- Tree Risk Categorization
- Risk Mitigation: Preventive and Remedial Actions
- Risk Reporting
- Tree Related Conflicts That Can Be a Source of Risk
- Loads on Trees
- Structural Defects and Conditions That Affect Likelihood of Failure
- Response Growth
- Description of Selected Types of Advanced Tree Risk Assessments
© 2017, Softcover - 86 pages
- Item Status:
- Active
- Manufacturer Part Number:
- P1542
- Country of Manufacture:
- US