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Agriculture, Forestry & Food

Arboriculturist

Family · Agriculture, Forestry & Food
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Excludes <a resource="http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/773cf1de-50a4-42e7-bab1-e68dcbae3f54" typeOf="http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Occupation" href="http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/773cf1de-50a4-42e7-bab1-e68dcbae3f54"><span property="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label" xml:lang="en">forest worker</span></a>. Excludes <a resource="http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/699057b7-7aeb-4b5c-bb90-01d935ff32c1" typeOf="http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Occupation" href="http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/699057b7-7aeb-4b5c-bb90-01d935ff32c1"><span property="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label" xml:lang="en">forestry equipment operator</span></a>. Excludes people performing managerial activities in forests or harvesting timbers. Excludes people performing tree growth activities. Includes people performing activities focusing on the health and safety of individual plants and trees. Includes people working in rural and urban settings. Includes people performing felling, preservation, plantation and protection of trees. Includes people working with heavy equipment. Includes people managing the relationship between trees, their surroundings and people.

Where people train for this

09 · Core skills

advise on tree issuescarry out aerial tree riggingclimb treesconserve forestscontrol tree diseasesde-limb treesestimate damageexecute disease and pest control activitiesexecute fertilisationhandle geospatial technologiesinspect treesminimize risks in tree operations

Also known as

arborist arboretum worker arboriculture specialist tree climber climber arboriculturists tree doctor
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