London Plane

[treevolution]

11 hours ago, AA Teccie (Paul) said:

I remember my first encounter with LP in my early days as an assessor when I wondered what the heck was going on as the chap feeding the chipper was wearing RPE (respirator) BUT I very soon understood why, and the climbers all used dust masks. 

Most generic risk assessments / method statements I see these days talk about minimising the risk at this time of year by only undertaking emergency works, or exceptional very high priority works (and during wet weather where possible, to dampen the dusts clouds.) Ideally, as others have said, programmed works can take place when dormant...not the best for the tree necessarily but LP is pretty hardy and the RA process puts people first. 

Thank you for taking the time to reply to this question. 

 

The company is arb approved so in theory they should really be following the guidelines that you have set out above. 

 

I spoke to a couple of other climbers that will be attending the site this week and they have all said flat out that they will not do the Plane trees. 

 

I will forward this on to them. 

 

I understand that large companys have many things to worry about in the day to day running but they do need to look out for the guys that do the work, especially when we are in sort demand.