A qualified success!
Cutting Edge Landscapes in Cramlington is happy to list the qualifications we hold. Add to these over 25 years of successful trading and you have a winning combination for an outstanding gardening and landscaping service.
Our Qualifications at a Glance
Foundation Degree in Science with Commendation in Arboriculture
A combined academic and vocational qualification in higher education.
City & Guilds NVQ level 2 in Decorative Horticulture:
Promote the health and safety of self and others
Establish and maintain effective working relationships
Establish plants outdoors
Maintain fine amenity turf
Establish and maintain decorative amenity areas
Maintain equipment and machines
City & Guilds NVQ level 3 in Decorative Horticulture:
Access the characteristics of sites
Specify and monitor landscape maintenance
Estimate resource requirements and programme work
Produce and maintain plants for decorative horticultural areas
Prepare for and maintain equipment and machines
Manage oneself
Manage information for action
Support the efficient use of resources
City & Guilds NPTC Lantra Award Certificate of Attendance:
Arboriculture and bats – a guide for practitioners
Chainsaw maintenance, cross-cutting and felling small trees up to 380mm
Pedestrian Mowers – Rotary and Flail
Pedestrian Mowers – Cylinder
Ride on Mowers – Rotary and Flail
Chartered Institute of Environmental Health - Level 3 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace
Technical Training Certificate of Cable Avoidance
Driver CPC periodic training
MC Health & Safety Course
Ladder awareness
UK Safety Services
Mini excavator training
City & Guilds NPTC level 2 Certificate of competence in:
PA1 Foundation Module
PA2a Ground crop sprayer-boom type hydraulic nozzle
PA6a Hand held applicators-hydraulic nozzle and/or rotary atomiser types
CS30 Maintain the Chain Saw
CS31a Fell small trees (Conifer)
CS31b Fell small trees (Broadleaf)
CS32 Fell and process medium trees (380mm-760mm) (H/101/7903)
CS32a – Send
CS32b – Delimb
CS34 Sever individual windblown trees (M/101/7905)
CS36 Cross-cut and stack produce
CS38 Climb trees and perform aerial rescue (J/101/2449) & (A/101/2450)
CS39 Use of chainsaw from rope and harness (A/101/7907)
Certificate of competence in tractor driving and related operations
01 Pre-use safety – tractors (M/101/0825)
02 Operate the tractor (T/101/0826)
03 Hitch a trailer and three-point linkage implement to a tractor (A/101/0827)
04 Operate a tractor loader (F/101/0828)
CPCS Dumper Operator
Establishing safe working practices
CPCS Excavator Operator and CSCS
Establishing safe working practices
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