Do insurers want tickets?

[Bath_tree_man]

Hi all

 

I'm looking at starting trading within the next year and will need to get insured. In your experience do arb insurers require you to have all relevant tickets for the type of work - e.g. Tree pruning, Stump grinder, chipper, first aid etc? I will have the basic 4 tickets (30,31,38,39) but need to make sure I'm covered for a fairly varied workload (hopefully).

 

Paying for tickets from my existing wage - if I have to front load all the tickets I'd need to trade as self-employed, I'll be loss making for years! (If I could even afford it)

 

Cheers

 

Dan

[richy_B]

Unlikely they will ask for NPTC certificates. It is usually the case they will ask if you are capable of and can demonstrate professional competence in whatever it is your are doing/ machinery you are using. The simplest way to establish this is with a nationally recognised certificate, ie NPTC tickets but won't be specifically addressed.

 

When buying insurance they will ask you for very little - if you ever want to make a claim then you will need to make sure you 'paperworked ' up to the hilt!

 

Regardless of this though, if you have 30,31,38,39 you should be well covered for the majority of tree work from a legal perspective. 32, 40, 41 and so on are great additions but I doubt would be considered essential by underwriters etc.

Edited April 26, 2016 by richy_B

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Regardless of this though, if you have 30,31,38,39 you should be well covered for the majority of tree work from a legal perspective. 32, 40, 41 and so on are great additions but I doubt would be considered essential by underwriters etc.

 

However, in particular CS41, as was, now the level 3 award in aerial tree rigging qualification (C&Gs / NPTC or Lantra) is viewed by HSE as being required if you undertake rigging operations.

 

Singularly this qualification is the most common requirement contractors have to sort / source prior to presenting for arb approval.

 

I'm sure that insurer providers, particularly those who specialise in, and have a better understand of, the industry would like to see it too.

 

Cheers..

Paul

[Mark Bolam]

What Paul is trying to say is if you break something, hide the rigging gear.

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

What Paul is trying to say is if you break something, hide the rigging gear.

 

[Wolfie]

 

 

 

Singularly this qualification is the most common requirement contractors have to sort / source prior to presenting for arb approval.

 

 

 

Cheers..

 

Paul

 

 

Is that all the climbers in the firm?

 

I attended the AA rigging day at Thetford, would that not be enough

 

Thinking of attending the ArbAC prep day at Chelmsford in May, i have a feeling that it may take me more than 3 months to get everything up to scratch for the assessment.