ISA offers a variety of educational materials and products to help arborists expand their professional knowledge and experience. Every month, the ISA will feature a product or group of products. In February, the ISA is featuring the ANSI A300 Tree Care Standards.

Industry standards play an essential role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and safety of the services arborists and tree care workers provide while also making it easier for companies to meet the needs of consumers. The ANSI A300 Tree Care Standards, approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), is an excellent resource for companies and individuals to be a recognized authority in tree care. The US Civil Court system uses these standards as the final authority, and compliance ensures that your work aligns with the highest industry benchmarks.

After an extensive review, the newly updated ANSI A300 is now available in a consolidated document, making it more efficient for tree care workers to maintain industry standards. The ANSI A300 delivers comprehensive standards for tree care practices and guidelines for writing tree care work specifications. The updates to the standards include:

• New maintenance and monitoring recommendations to improve professionalism and defer maintenance responsibility away from companies and to the tree owners
• Improved clarification around palm pruning with the latest standards for frond removal
• Updates around indiscriminate mechanized tree-cutting

The ANSI A300 also equips individuals with work specification writing guides, facilitating effective communication with clients, sales staff, and production teams, thus minimizing misunderstandings and ensuring the job is executed correctly and complies with codes, laws, ordinances, and regulations.

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