Tree Care Foreman Evaluation

1. Employee Name

2. Employee Number

3. Time in Industry

4. Time with Employer

5. Date of Hire

6. Electrical Hazards Awareness Program (EHAP) Training Date

1. Line Strike

2. Property Damage

3. Employee Injury

4. Motor Vehicle Accident

5. Who is notified in case of a line strike, property damage, employee injury, or motor vehicle accident? The Foreman should be able to communicate the chain of command (Internal Employer resources – Operations Manager, Safety, and General Foreman and (Utility personnel)

1. JSA preparation

2. JSA updates

3. Stop Work Authority

4. Chainsaw inspection, operations, and maintenance

5. Chipper inspection, operations, and maintenance

6. Bucket truck/aerial lift inspection, operations, and maintenance

7. Crane inspection and operations

8. Climbing gear inspection, operation, and maintenance

9. Climbing knots

10. Climbing rigging operations

11. Inspection and operation of rigging lines

12. Inspection and operation of rigging components (5:1, Port-wrap, GRCS, etc)

1. Understands the basics of fire composition (ignition, fuel, oxygen)

2. Understands regulatory fire levels, and actions needed for each level.

3. Can effectively communicate fire prevention work plans.

4. Can effectively communicate fire evacuation planning strategies.

1. Can identify the different types of electrical conductors.

2. Can identify the different types of overhead electrical distribution systems: Transmission, Distribution, Primary, Secondary, Service Drop.

3. Knows how to identify and communicate minimum approach distances, including distances regulated by elevation changes.

1. Understands how to properly identify trees and locations.

2. Can manage and mitigate customer concerns.

3. Understands work order, and work order distribution and completion.

4. Understands how to navigate and complete utility applications for completion of work orders.

5. Understands how to evaluate a tree for utility hazards and escalate the request to perform trimming.

6. Understands how to fill out logs and headcounts to submit to Employer personnel.

7. Understands how to communicate and report daily work activities.

1. Understands how and when to report completed work.

2. Understands how to report time sheets.

3. Understands the chain of command and reporting procedures for incidents.

4. Understands how to report absent days for employees.

5. Understands how to report day off requests for field workers.

6. Understands how to submit an expense report.

1. Communicates and effective Safety message to all field employees.

2. Consistently provides feedback to field crew members to ensure proper growth within the company.

3. Mentors and coaches employees who show signs of deficient behavior and skills.

4. Takes constructive feedback and gives constructive feedback in a positive manner.

1. Evaluators Name

2. Did the Foreman pass this evaluation?

3. Comments