IRATA is the sole global trade association in the work-at-height sector; it has member companies in every continent. Industrial rope access has been developed by IRATA in the last 20 years to a point where it is the chosen means of access for much of the work in the offshore oil and gas industry as well as a range of projects in construction, civil engineering, the built and natural evironment and much more. Its success is based on thorough training and strict work guidelines that deliver an unrivalled safe working record year after year.
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IRATA rope access is now being deployed in Japan.
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IRATA launches a new International Code of Practice |
| Having developed the use of industrial rope access around the world during the last 21 years and managed its remarkable growth and safe use by means of the much admired IRATA Guidelines, IRATA International has moved to advance rope access knowledge and use even further by the publication of a wholly new International Code of Practice. This substantial publication will replace the Guidelines and become the means by which IRATA rope access will be trained and operated around the world. The Association already has in excess of 230 member companies around the world and has trained more that 30000 rope access technicians; it has members are in every continent and these businesses undertake in excess of five million working hours on ropes each year. The Associations proud record of safe working is unrivalled in this trade sector. Remarkably, the safe deployment of workmen on ropes has proved a substantial growth area in several trade sectors and this new publication will lead further expansion of the procedure. TO DOWNLOAD YOUR COPY PLEASE CLICK HERE |
IRATA trains in ever greater numbers |
Rope access technicians from all over the world are trained by IRATA International and bring safe operational procedures to work-at-height. In 2008 men and women from 63 countries were passed by IRATA Assessors including people from Korea, Vietnam, Slovenia, Qatar, Nigeria, Nepal, Azerbaijan and China. This year the Association has welcomed new techs from many more countries including Bulgaria, Eygpt, Greece, Jamaica, Ukraine, Puerto Rica and even the tiny island of St Helena. IRATA is indeed INTERNATIONAL! |
