Industrial Rope Access - The Benefits of Using Industrial Rope Access

Industrial rope access was developed initially from methods found in caving. Rope access offers a safe, efficient and generally affordable mode of working at height and enables work to be completed safely and effectively in difficult to reach areas, allowing usage of the most tricky of areas. Rope access is less obtrusive and almost always quicker and cheaper than scaffolding or a cherry picker, and one of the great great things about industrial rope access is that a rope access team can be in and out with the the least disruption. Whats more, at the end of a day rope access kit is simple to dismantle and remove, minimising the security risk of leaving it onsite.

Safety is paramount in industrial rope access. Each industrial rope access worker uses two ropes always, a backup safety line and an operating line and each rope has a separate point of anchorage. Any job requires two rope access technicians for added safety, and each is highly trained and must retrain at least every three years.

In the early days of industrial rope access it was trusted offshore on the North sea oil and gas platforms for inspections, but since that time has spread onshore and can be used in a variety of ways in the industrial sector.


There are five main areas that industrial rope access technicians usually work in: 1. building maintenance and repair, 2. higher level cleaning and window cleaning and advanced painting, 3. inspection and testing, 4. Geotechnical work & Civil engineering.

So Rope Access Facade Specialists Preston can be used in a number of different scenarios that require just work at height, with safety always being at the forefront while at the same time the techniques used allow a rope access technician to effectively perform the work required.