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We are pleased to inform our clients that Matthew Shute recently attended a course of training in the principles and application of the Quantified Tree Risk Assessment System. East Devon Tree Care\u00a0is now certified to undertake Quantified Tree Risk Assessments (QTRA)\u00a0for landowners, local authorities, parish councils and developers to quantify the level of risk posed by a tree in its current condition and location.<\/p>\n
Land owners and Estate managers have a duty of care\u00a0to ensure other people are not endangered by trees on their property.\u00a0 To fulfil this duty of care, a regular inspection of all trees should be made by a competent arboriculturalist.<\/p>\n
The Quantified Tree Risk Assessment Method<\/strong><\/p>\n “Tree safety management is a matter of limiting the risk of harm from tree failure while maintaining the benefits conferred by\u00a0trees. Although it may seem counter intuitive, the condition of\u00a0\u00a0trees should not be the first consideration. Instead, tree managers\u00a0should consider first the usage of the land on which the trees stand, and in\u00a0\u00a0 turn this will inform the process of assessing the trees.<\/p>\n The Quantified Tree Risk Assessment (QTRA) system applies established and accepted risk management principles to tree safety\u00a0management. Firstly, the use of land upon which trees could fail is\u00a0assessed and quantified, thus enabling tree managers to determine whether or not and to what degree of rigour a survey or inspection of the trees is\u00a0required. Where necessary, the tree or branch is then considered in terms of both impact potential (size) and probability of\u00a0failure. Values derived from the assessment of these three\u00a0components are used to calculate the probability of harm.<\/p>\n The system moves the management of tree safety away from labelling trees as either \u2018safe\u2019 or \u2018unsafe\u2019 and thereby away from requiring\u00a0definitive judgements from either tree assessors or tree\u00a0managers. Instead, QTRA quantifies the risk of significant harm from tree failure in a way that enables tree managers to balance safety with tree values and operate to predetermined limits of tolerable or acceptable\u00a0risk”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n For further details please\u00a0read more on the QTRA website<\/a>.<\/p>\n