Safety Within Rope Access

Every Job needs sufficient planning. Also needs the right team to interact with each other safely and following closely the Method statement and the Risk assessment. Following IRATA (international's Rope Access Trade Association) Is of paramount importance not only for working technicians but benefits third parties too.

In the late 80s IRATA was formed. A organisation that could prove abseiling techniques could be modernised from a climbing standard and made to be sufficient for industrial use. With the foremost introduction of a dual rope operation. This means all technicians will rig two independently rigged ropes to a sufficient anchor. This ensures the safety of the operative should one line to fail. The work and safety analysis is a document from IRATA displaying the figures of accidents Click here to download the 2019 WASA report Staggeringly low numbers consider the 100k plus rope access technicians performing day in and out a potentially dangerous occupation.