VALID Tree Risk Management

Why Choose Essex Tree Brothers?

Looking for a tree surgery team specialising in VALID tree risk management? Then welcome to Essex Tree Brothers. We provide a wide range of commercial tree risk management services to business owners in all kinds of industries. We’re here to help you meet your landowner tree responsibilities using the clear, easy-to-understand VALID framework.

What is VALID?

VALID is an evidence-based tree safety management system that has been designed to evaluate tree risk. It balances safety with all of the benefits that having trees on site brings, and it is the leading way to comply with tree safety legislation UK businesses use. A VALID tree risk assessment looks at things like the likelihood of tree failure and the chances of it impacting people or property, helping us to put a tailored tree safety management plan together.

The VALID traffic light system

VALID stands apart in that its findings are presented in a really easy-to-understand traffic light system. They are as follows:

• Red: Not Acceptable. This rating means that all risks need to be reduced to an acceptable level as a matter of urgency.
• Amber: Not Tolerable. This means that risks need to be reduced to an acceptable level, but not as urgently as a Red
• Amber: Tolerable. All risks do not need to be reduced, but more frequent inspections may be needed.
• Green: Acceptable – All risks do not need to be reduced. No action is required at this time.

Your responsibilities as a business owner

If you own a commercial site, then you have a duty of care to manage the risk from your trees falling or dropping branches. To fulfil all of your responsibilities, you need to take reasonable, proportionate, and practical steps to make sure that your trees are at an Acceptable or Tolerable risk level. We know what needs to be done to achieve this and have worked on many sites to bring their trees down into that range.

Talk to us

To find out more about tree safety management and how we can help you, please get in touch today. We are here to answer all of your questions so that you can proceed with total confidence.