#8137. Assessing the consequences of tree failure

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Abstract:
Arborists, urban foresters, and other tree care professionals commonly use visual risk assessment methods to evaluate tree safety. Most methods used by professionals have three main inputs: likelihood of impact, likelihood of failure, and consequences of failure. In assessing the latter, the size of the tree part expected to fail and its fall distance are key aspects of determining potential damage to nearby targets. As such, accurately rating consequences of failure requires both an ability to estimate sizes and fall distances from afar and an ability to interpret how this information relates to target impact. In this study, we assessed how arborists with different levels of experience and training visually rated consequences of failure for human and vehicular targets given their visual estimations of limb size and fall distance.
Keywords:
Arboriculture; Public health and safety; Tree management; Tree risk assessment; Urban forestry

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