SEG Awards
Level 2
QN: 501/1411/6
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SEG Awards Level 2 Certificate in Arboriculture
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by SEG Awards. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 221 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 2
Awarding Body
SEG Awards
Syllabus Units
9 Units
Guided Hours
221 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Principles of tree surgery equipment use and maintenance
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the setting up procedure, safe operation and routine maintenance required by a MEWP
- Understand the setting up procedure, safe operation and routine maintenance required by a brushwood chipper
- Understand the setting up procedure, safe operation and routine maintenance required by a stump grinder
- Understand the signing of tree operations adjacent to a highway
2
Principles of tree surgery operations
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the principles of tree surgery operations
- Understand tree surgery work needs to be carried out in accordance with best practice and in compliance with the relevant Acts and Regulations
3
Principles of woodlands, forestry and ecology
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how woodland/forestry cover has changed from 1600 A.D. to the present day
- Understand woodland structure and how a woodland develops
- Understand the principles of common silvicultural systems of tree management
- Understand the main types of woodland management
- Understand the main aims and objectives of community woodlands and forests
- Understand how a woodland ecosystem and a simple woodland food chain or web functions
4
The interaction of soil environments and woody plants
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how soil is formed
- Understand the importance of the differing quantities of water in a soil
- Understand the role played in woody plants by the principal macro and micro nutrients
- Understand the role of the beneficial organisms found in the soil
- Understand soil pH and the ranges found in soil
- Understand optimum soil conditions required for woody plant growth
- Understand the importance of pre-planting soil surveys for woody plants
5
The principles of aerial tree surgery and ground based arboricultural operations
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the practices of carrying out aerial tree surgery operations
- Understand the requirements of daily and routine maintenance and service checks carried out on a chainsaw
- Understand the processes of maintaining and storing personal protective, lifting and tree surgery equipment
- Understand the practices of carrying out ground based arboricultural operations.
6
The principles of managing special trees
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the values of special trees
- Understand the characteristics of an ancient tree
- Understand the features of a veteran tree
- Understand the principles of managing Ancient and veteran trees
- Understand the implications of undertaking tree work that may affect protected species.
7
The supply, planting and aftercare of woody plants
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the values of woody plants in the environment
- Understand the plant handling process from lifting in the nursery through to storage at the planting site
- Understand methods of planting woody plants
- Understand appropriate protection and support system requirements
- Understand the aftercare requirements of newly planted stock
8
Tree inspections and statute and common law applied to trees
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the processes of undertaking safety inspections of trees
- Understand the need to select the appropriate recommendation following inspection
- Understand how aspects of common law are applied to trees
- Understand how aspects of statute legislation applies to the protection of trees
9
Woody plant physiology
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the international system of plant naming
- Understand the function of cells found in ring porous, diff
- use porous and coniferous woody plants
- Understand the main physiological processes that woody plants carry out and the main environmental factors which influence growth
- Understand principles applied to the growth of woody plants
- Understand the woody plant root system
- Understand what is meant by tree biomechanics
- Understand the defence mechanisms used by woody plants
- Understand the causes, prevention or control of ill health in woody plants
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 501/1411/6
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- SEG Awards
- Qualification Type
- Occupational Qualification
- Operational Start
- Sept 2010
- Operational End
- Aug 2026