ASTI Training
The TCIAF Arborist Safety Training Institute (ASTI) works to bring quality, local and affordable safety training to working arborists.
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Core Safety Training
Aerial Rescue
Aerial Rescue Training Program helps you and your employees learn more about aerial rescue safety and procedures. The program includes how to prepare your crews to do an aerial rescue. It can be implemented as an employer certification training program at your company. This program helps you meet the aerial rescue training requirements mandated by ANSI Z133 and OSHA.
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CTSP
The Certified Treecare Safety Professional (CTSP) program is a personnel certification program. The CTSP program will help you or your employees learn how to be a true safety professional and create a culture of safety at your company. Having one or more CTSP’s at your company will help you prevent accidents and save lives, lower costs, improve morale, and increase production.
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- Attendance at a CTSP workshop is mandatory to complete this program.
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EHAP
Electrical Hazards Awareness Program (EHAP) helps you and your employees learn about the dangers posed by electrical hazards. The program includes how to identify and avoid electrical hazards. It can be implemented as an employer certification training program at your company. This program helps you meet electrical hazard training requirements mandated by ANSI Z133 and OSHA 1910.269.
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Tree Care Apprentice
Tree Care Apprentice helps your newly-hired employees learn about basic tree care safety and hazard avoidance. The program also documents training for newly-hired employees. It can be implemented as an employer certification training program at your company. Tree Care Apprentice helps you meet initial safety training requirements mandated by ANSI Z133 and OSHA.
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Arborist Career Training
Chain Saw Specialist
Chain Saw Specialist helps you and your employees learn about safe operation of chain saws. The program documents training for new employees or employees who need a chain saw safety refresher. It can be implemented as an employer certification training program at your company. Chain Saw Specialist helps you meet initial safety training requirements mandated by ANSI Z133 and OSHA.
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Chipper Operator Specialist
Chipper Operator Specialist helps you and your employees learn about safe operation of chippers. The program documents training for new employees or employees who need a chipper safety refresher. It can be implemented as an employer certification training program at your company. Chipper Operator Specialist helps you meet initial safety training requirements mandated by ANSI Z133 and OSHA.
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Ground Operations Specialist
Ground Operation Specialist helps you and your employees learn how to work together safety, as a crew. It includes how to do job site hazard analysis. The program documents training for new employees or employees who need a safety refresher. It can be implemented as an employer certification training program at your company. Ground Operations Specialist helps you meet initial safety training requirements mandated by ANSI Z133 and OSHA.
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Aerial Lift Specialist
Aerial Lift Specialist helps you and your employees learn about aerial lift safety, inspection, preparation, driving, and operating guidelines. The program documents training for new employees or employees who need an aerial lift safety refresher. It can be implemented as an employer certification training program at your company. Aerial Lift Specialist training helps you meet initial safety training and certificate requirements mandated by ANSI Z133 and OSHA.
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Tree Climber Specialist
Tree Climber Specialist helps you and your employees learn how to plan climbs safely, how to follow safe climbing operations. It includes an introduction to rigging. The program documents training for new employees or employees who need a safety refresher. It can be implemented as an employer certification training program at your company. Tree Climber Specialist helps you meet initial safety training requirements mandated by ANSI Z133 and OSHA.
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- Workshops are not available for this program.
SRT Climber Specialist
SRT Climber Specialist helps you and your employees learn safe and efficient methods of work positioning in the tree on a stationary rope. The program documents training for employees. It can be implemented as an employer certification training program at your company. SRT Climber Specialist helps you meet on-going safety training requirements mandated by ANSI Z133 and OSHA.
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Business, Sales & Technical Training
Crew Leader Qualification
Crew Leader Qualification workshops help your crew leader learn how to lead and manage a crew. It includes how to deal with conflict, how to communicate with clients and the public, how to be a good leader, how to improve performance and safety, and much more in an action packed one-day workshop that includes nine learning activities. At the end of the workshop crew leaders can earn the Crew Leader Qualification Certificate.
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Tree Care Specialist
Tree Care Specialist helps you and your employees learn about tree biology, pruning, transplanting, cabling & bracing, lightning protection, and basic plant health care. It can be implemented as an employer certification training program at your company.
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PHC Technician
PHC Technician helps you and your employees learn plant health skills that will assure them a front row in the mindset of a long-term customer including site mapping, advanced soil management, tree fertilization and nutrition applications, pesticide selection and application, IPM concepts, bio-controls and organic tree care concepts. It can be implemented as an employer certification training program at your company.
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A300 Workshops
ANSI A300 tree care management standards provide the standards of performance and specification writing guidelines for tree care operations.
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- A300 tree care standards workshops are scheduled periodically.
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Webinars & Forums
Can’t get away from the office for training? TCIA is making it easy for you to train right from your desk!
Companies can now educate a large number of employees at once, reduce travel expenses, and maintain consistent levels of productivity by eliminating time out of the office.
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Equal Opportunity in Education and Training Programs Policy
The Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA) and Foundation do not unlawfully discriminate against any person on any basis prohibited by federal law, state law, or other applicable law, including without limitation, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression. This policy covers all education and training programs of TCIA, including admission to education programs and contracting with program instructors.
Inquiries concerning this policy should be directed to Robert Rouse, Chief Program Officer, 136 Harvey Road, Suite 101, Londonderry, NH 03053, (603) 314-5380 or rrouse@tcia.org.