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Rope Access Techniques for Industrial Contracts and Rescue Operations

Lance Piatt / Ascend - Descend, Ascending and Descending Systems, Blog, Rope Access and Working At Height

Rope access techniques are essential across numerous industries, ensuring professionals can navigate difficult environments safely and efficiently. Whether working on industrial contracts or emergency rescue operations, mastering these techniques allows workers to meet the high standards expected in these roles. In this post, we’ll focus on four key techniques every professional needs and how they […]

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ANSI Z459.1 ROPE ACCESS AND TWO CONNECTIONS TO A SINGLE POINT

Lance Piatt / Blog, Fall Safety, General Rigging, Rope Access and Working At Height, Safe Practices / 34 Comments

The following is from Loui McCurley/PMI Rope One of the MYTHS being generated about the new ANSI Z459.1 standard that was recently published as part of the ANSI Z359 Fall Protection Code is that this standard has introduced a prohibition on attaching TWO DESCENDERS to a SINGLE CONNECTION POINT on your harness. Before addressing that

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Everything You Need to Know About the NEWTON Harnesses

Lance Piatt / Blog, Petzl, Rope Access and Working At Height, RRG Gear Review / 5 Comments

Everything You Need to Know About the NEWTON Harnesses MARCH 15 2021 FRAMING AND ROOFING Designed for those who spend their days working at height, the new NEWTON fall-arrest harnesses were built so that your personal protective equipment doesn’t get in the way of efficiently getting the job done. Even more so than the

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PETZL I’D EVAC ~ Main Uses

Lance Piatt / Ascending and Descending Systems, Blog, Equipment, How-To Concepts, Petzl, Rope Access and Working At Height / 50 Comments

The I’D EVAC is a self-braking descender/belay device with the handle oriented to facilitate use on the anchor. Lowering with I’D attached to an anchor From Gear In Use 4: Rope Access and Confined Space With the I’D on the anchor, a person can be lowered to a workstation, or an injured person may be

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Harken Industrial Part 3: Marine to Industrial Rigging and Rope Access… Who is Elevated Safety?

Lance Piatt / Blog, Elevated Safety, Harken Industrial, Rope Access and Working At Height / 25 Comments

Mid way through the 2018 season, there was a shift in the industrial rigging arena. I saw this coming years ago, but quite wasn’t sure as to how the blending of Harken into the rope access and rescue space would happen; this was 2010. It was to come through the open-door of Elevated Safety. Now

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What is CE All About and Really… What Does It Have To Do With Rescue and Rigging?

Lance Piatt / Blog, Rope Access and Working At Height, Safe Practices

What is CE anyway? Is it an abbreviation of the French phrase “Conformité Européene” which literally means “European Conformity” as in our climbing gear? Does CE mean “Common Era”?.. As in the Year AD 1 (Anno Domini)? Oh wait!!!! How about CE as “continued education”? This might really sound lame, but if you are getting my point

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