Safety Update: Industry Statistics and What we can Do About Them, Cordage & SRT

Safety Update: Industry Statistics and What we can Do About Them, Cordage & SRS (Stationary Rope System)

Agenda

8:00am-9:30am Power Point and Open Discussion;

• Safety Update: Industry Statistics and What We Can Do About Them

9:45am-12:00noon Education and Demonstration in SRS Application

• Associated Equipment and Terminology (anchors, friction devices, friction cordage, rope)
  
• “SRS” specific safety considerations; Ergonomics, force vectors, equipment compatibility,
  
• pre-climb assessment
  

12:00-12:30pm Break/Lunch

12:30pm-4:00pm Education and Demonstration Cont.

• Compare and contrast;
  
• • Safety Considerations cont.
  • SRS and its many forms; ascent, hybrid (combined MRS & SRS), integrated ascentand work positioning systems
  • moving rope systems vs. stationary rope systems explore advantages and disadvantages
  • Open discussion and as time allows; redirects, limb walk MRS
• Why Safety Matters; Industry performance-We are struggling!!! “Can we stay in business if
  
• • we do not self-correct?” “How can we recruit the next generation of arborists when we are
  • scaring off the best candidates?”

3:30 Questions and End of Session

Program Facilitator-Corey Shepard-CTSP-Davey Tree Expert Co.  Working arborist since 1999.  BS Forestry-UMASS Amherst.  ISA Cert. Arborist since 2003 (PD-1510A).  Chapter Climbing Champion-2007, represented the Penn-Del chapter at the ITCC.  Regional Safety Specialist-supporting operations in safety program enhancement, implementation and education.