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Code of Federal Regulations – 1910.146 Permit-required confined spaces

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Confined Space Rescue

This blog is a quick reference for folks (private, public or government agenies alike) who are needing a quick reference for the federal guidelines overseeing confined space regulations. This section does not apply to agriculture, to construction, or to shipyard employment (parts 1928, 1926, and 1915 of this chapter, respectively). 1910.146 (b) Definitions. Acceptable entry …

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Event + Response = Outcome: The Mindset

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Principles of Learning / 124 Comments

An Excerpt From Rigging Lab Academy’s The Cornerstone The way people manage the R (Response) is life. When we understand and implement this equation, we allow structure in our life. It is a discipline, but the framework of our response to events forms the rest of our days. People want to be intentional, but most …

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What exactly is a Journey?

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Personal Competencies, Professional Standards / 6 Comments

Excerpt from The Cornerstone: Knowledge & Perception What exactly is a Journey? The Latin adjective “diurnus” means “pertaining to a day or daily”; English diurnal stems ultimately from this word. When Latin developed into French, “diurnus” became a noun, jour, meaning “day,” the medieval French derivative Journee meant either “day” or “something done during …

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Want to Increase Your Learning Capacity? Match Your Metacognition with Your Cognition…

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Lance Piatt, Team Competencies, Technical Learning, Two (Twin) Tension Rope Systems / 33 Comments

The learning process is fascinating to me. We are created unique in every area of our lives. Is it any wonder why every few years there are new break-throughs in slowing the aging process, fitness, health, mental capacity, technology and learning. Ever heard of “metacognition”? I hadn’t until more recently. What you are about to …

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

By 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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How can rescue trainers use computers to find hidden treasures?

By Lance Piatt / Arizona Vortex, Artificial High Directional AHD, Portable Anchors, Principles of Learning, TerrAdaptor, Twin Tension Rope System, Twin Tension Rope System Clutch, Two (Twin) Tension Rope Systems, Two Rope Offsets, Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems / 13 Comments

I have been sharing about my sojourns… which are really about your journeys and your journeys are about your vision for the future. Everything I have taken on has been anchored into something all y’all have gone through… I know this because you told me so. Early on I in my career I was embarrassed …

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What are some myths team leaders believe about hidden treasures that simply aren’t true?

By Lance Piatt / Arizona Vortex, Artificial High Directional AHD, How-To Concepts, Leadership, Principles of Learning, Twin Tension Rope System, Twin Tension Rope System Clutch, Two (Twin) Tension Rope Systems, Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems / 19 Comments

So, “the game is afoot”… Like Sherlock Holmes I was looking for something, anything that would get me closer to solving “the mystery of the missing retention”. I approached 3 people I knew could help me in this… Reed Thorne, who literally changed the scope and trajection of technical rope rescue and is a true …

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An Introduction to Twin Highline Systems In The Work Access Environment

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Mainline Systems and Operations, Offset Track Line / 113 Comments

Force Vectors In general, the greater the angle between two anchor points, the greater the stress will be on those anchors. It must be the goal of the technician to minimize all angles in a manner that will still accomplish the job at hand. The kind of stress that will be required of the horizontal …

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The Basics Of How The Arizona Vortex Works

By Lance Piatt / Anchors, Artificial High Directional AHD, Blog / 47 Comments

Okay, so we’re just going to talk about the background on why we use the Vortex, so for this demonstration, we’ve taken the rope out of the pulley, the head of the Vortex. In this configuration, assuming that the Vortex is actually not even here, you can see that John is tied into the red …

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From John Morton for ITRS: What if Trees Had Ratings in kN? Tree Anchor "Ratings" Based on Wind Loading

From John Morton for ITRS: Tree Anchor “Ratings” Based on Wind Loading

By Lance Piatt / Blog / 55 Comments

What if trees had ratings? What an amazing concept. John Morton, an engineer-scientist-visionary-technician, has been doing canopy studies for years and knows how they are affected by wind. Trees, whether alone or in community, are all influenced by wind and all have a certain “wind rating” to them. When SAR members show up on scene, and …

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