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Educational Sessions

Safety Symposium

Safety in Arboriculture - Can we Achieve Zero Accidents?
Monday, 10 August 2015
1:00 PM — 2:30 PM
Osceola Ballroom D
A, T, M, L, Bm

It is almost expected that there will be accidents when providing arboricultural services. The typical rate of injury in our industry is about one per 5,000 hours of work. This results in pain and suffering, a loss of income, and higher prices for the client. This panel will discuss how one Division of the Bartlett Tree Expert Company has reduced their personal injury rate to one per 65,000 hours. They will discuss some of their common accidents and how to reduce or eliminate them. The panel is composed of Bartlett Vice President Scott Jamison, Division Manager Peter Becker and Safety and Training coordinator Joe Bones. Bring your questions for the discussion.

Presenter Information

- Peter Becker
  
  Mr. Becker started his career with Bartlett in 1973 while in college in Roanoke, VA, where he earned a Bachelor of Liberal Arts Degree in Botany and Business from Roanoke College.n 1975. With Bartlett, Peter has served in positions of ground man, climber, arborist/representative, Local Manager in the Baltimore, MD office and was promoted to the Assistant Division Manager for the Mid-East Division in 1988. He assumed his present position in 1989 and now serves as a Senior- Vice President and the Division Manager of the Mid- Atlantic Division. In 1985, Peter was instrumental in the development of the IPM Development Project at Bartlett, at the Baltimore, Maryland office location, as well as other Bartlett locations.
  
  Peter is a member of the Maryland Arborist Association and served, as president from 1988-1990, Chairman of the Maryland Community Forestry Council from 1996-1998, was a 2000, 2001 and 2003 Tour des Trees rider raising funds for the Tree Fund. He is presently Bartlett Tree Experts representative to the ANZI A-300 Committee and serves on the business accreditation council for TCIA. He has served as the Division Manager representative to the Bartlett Safety Committee from 2001 –2003.
  
  Bartlett Tree Expert Co., Charlotte, NC, United States
- Joe Bones
  
  Joe Bones has been employed by Bartlett Tree Experts Company (Philadelphia, PA.) for more than 30 years. Serving in his role as Mid-Atlantic Safety and Training Coordinator Joe has had the opportunity to supervise the installation of lightning protection systems both here and abroad.
  Joe is a past president of the Penn-Del Chapter of ISA and serves on many industry and educational committes including the Tree Care Industry Association, ANSI Z133.1 Accredited Standard Committee, Philadelphia High School Horticultural Board of Governors, Williamson Trade School Horticultural Advisory Committee, and the Tree Dynamics Fund advisory committee.
  
  Bartlett Tree Expert Co., Charlotte, NC, United States
- Scott Jamieson
  
  Scott is Vice President with Bartlett Tree Experts. He leads Bartlett’s national recruiting and corporate partnerships efforts and also heads the Bartlett Inventory Solutions team in providing innovative and technologically advanced tree management plans to clients across the country. Prior to joining Bartlett in 2008, Scott was President and CEO of a national tree care firm with revenues of over $50 million.
  
  Scott serves as a director on a number of boards, including The National Association of Landscape Professionals as its Board President, and Openlands. He is the former Chair of the Board for the Tree Care Industry Association and a former board member for the National Safety Council and the Alliance for Community Trees.
  
  He received a BS in Urban Forestry from Purdue University, where he has been honored as a Distinguished Alumni. He also received an MS in Urban Forestry from Michigan State and an MBA from DePaul. Scott lives with his wife and two children just outside Chicago in Arlington Heights, IL.
  
  Bartlett Tree Expert Co., Charlotte, NC, United States