Elements and Performance Criteria
- 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
- 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
- Install cable and bracing