Work place health and Safety

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All of our rope access technicians are Industrial Rope Access Trade Association (IRATA) certified. Using rope access methods gives us great advantages in accessing difficult locations in a safer, faster way, with minimal impact on other operations,  surrounding areas and the environment.

We choose IRATA technicians over any other rope access association since they are internationally recognised for their high expectations from their members. They have rigorous monitoring, controls and superior training and an international code of practice to support and guide their trained members.

We use a web and app-based platform to ensure the whole team is fully inducted and qualified for the planned works. With alerts and reminders when refreshers are due as well as a qualification matrix to help us handpick to best combination of qualified tradespeople for the project in hand.

100% of our onsite staff hold a valid Work Safely at Heights Certificate. e recognise the importance of as many people as possible being aware of the risk and hierarchy of control to be considered when working at height; running from elimination to substitution before isolation, engineering and administration to manage or control the risk.

While the ‘Work Safely at Heights’ Unit of Competency (RIIWHS204D) does not have an expiry date, the Working at Heights Association (WAHA) and other industry bodies recommend that this training is refreshed every 2 years. We like to be above industry standard in all possible ways, so we prefer to refresh our onsite personnel training annually to ensure we are always up to date with any changes.

More than half of our entire staff are first aid trained, including all CPR certificates being refreshed every 12 months. This means it’s not uncommon to have a whole team onsite with every person being appropriately trained to deal with first aid situations if they should occur. We always have at least one first aider onsite, prepared with a first aid kit that is regularly audited to ensure it is suitably stocked

‘Safety’ refers to mitigating risk of injury or damage to our personnel, yourselves as our valued clients, the public and the property you entrust us with. We do this, by not only using competent and qualified staff but also carefully considering the most appropriate and safest methodology to be used, which gets transcribed in a ‘safe work method statement’; more commonly referred to as SWMS.

The teams conduct a toolbox talk at the beginning of every shift, to ensure any additional factors that may affect works is acknowledged, discussed in detailed and controlled by whichever means are necessary.

Our Project Managers and WHS representatives conduct systematic inspections during the course of a project to ensure the quality and safety expectations are being upheld – and they always are!

We implement and enforce policies and procedures that preach a ‘zero drop’ philosophy.

We are continuously updating our library of procedures to detail and adequately prepare personnel for the equipment and methods we use.

More experienced staff are selected as ‘lead hands’ to oversee and ensure works are compliant to these procedures.