Arborist Risk Assessment & Management of Trees

For insurance purposes, the risk assessment and risk management of trees, especially in public areas such as caravan parks, has become a serious issue.

Arborists Approach to Calculating Risk in Trees

Calculating and notarising risk assessment is always difficult, yet we, as professional arborists, have a responsibility to do this to the best of our individual expertise,” says Peter Gray of Northern Tree Care.

Can an Arborist Tell when a Tree will Fail?

“The thing is: we know that a tree eventually will of its own accord come down, but exactly when that will occur and whether the tree falls in sections or the whole tree fails, cannot always be determined. However, through the implementation of the sophisticated and internationally recognised  Qualitative Tree Risk Assessment system, which has been used and found assistive and clarifying in court cases, we can, within a reasonable context of doubt, assess what constitutes an acceptable risk in varying situations.

Acceptable risk of course must always be balanced against the amenity which a tree or trees offer.

Obviously a tree on a lean in an empty paddock poses no major risk while one leaning within the heart of a populated location such as a shopping centre, does.”