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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for work
   • Determine cable and bracing requirements from client brief
   • Determine materials required for installing cable and bracing
   • Determine location of above-and-below-ground services
   • Undertake a site-specific risk assessment by identifying work health and safety hazards and assessing risk
   • Select appropriate cable and bracing tools and equipment
   • Select and use personal protective equipment
   • Confirm first aid and emergency personnel, equipment and procedures
   • Record and implement work health, safety, site, environmental and traffic control measures
2. Prepare trees for cable and bracing
   • Examine structural tree components using visual tree assessment and in accordance with Compartmentalisation of Decay in Trees (CODIT) principles in relation to tree anatomy and physiology
   • Examine branches to determine vitality and integrity of attachment ensuring ability to safely implement bracing
   • Undertake preliminary pruning in accordance with AS 4373 to aid cable and bracing installation
3. Install cable and bracing
   • Discuss planned approach to cable and bracing with other members of work team
   • Install cable and bracing
   • Determine the requirement for additional pruning to restore tree to its natural habit and form and sustain its growth
   • Check and record completed program for quality of work

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must be observed installing cable and bracing according to a pruning program.

The candidate must be assessed on their ability to integrate and apply the performance requirements of this unit in a workplace setting. Performance must be demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts.

The candidate must provide evidence for and demonstrate:

determining location of above-and-below-ground services

undertaking a site-specific risk assessment

determining cable and bracing requirements from client brief

confirming first aid and rescue procedures applicable to tree work

examining structural tree components

examining vitality and structural integrity of branch attachments

identifying work health and safety hazards and assessing risk

recording and implementing site and traffic control measures

use of tree climbing techniques or ability to work from an elevated work platform

installing cable and bracing

determining requirement for additional pruning

checking and recording completed program for quality of work

use of industry standard terminology to describe arboriculture and work environment.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

the effect of pruning on tree growth, habit and form

tree anatomy and tree physiology

tree pruning techniques appropriate to requirements of species

visual tree assessment

selection of appropriate cable and bracing tools and equipment

selection of suitable personal protective equipment

the principles and methods of pruning (tree anatomy and physiology)

identification of work health and safety hazards, risk assessment and risk control application

quality of pruning work

cable and bracing techniques appropriate to tree species

cable and bracing theory

Compartmentalisation of Decay in Trees (CODIT) principles

implications of pruning cuts and the way trees respond

sustainable growth requirements of trees

natural habit and form of trees

first aid and rescue personnel, equipment and procedures applicable to tree work

local government tree protection and preservation regulations

Australian Standard 4373–2007 relating to tree pruning.

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