The United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union on 31 January 2020 has created significant changes to the marking of products offered for sale within the UK. Whilst a transition pe… Read More

​IRATA International would like to take this opportunity to welcome its newest members who were appointed in March 2021:… Read More

Regrettably, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted IRATA International’s well-regarded and much-anticipated annual events, resulting in the cancellation of the ‘IRATA Technical Event and Conferenc… Read More

​IRATA International would like to take this opportunity to welcome its newest members who were appointed in February 2021:… Read More

​IRATA International would like to take this opportunity to welcome its newest members who were appointed in January 2021:… Read More

We are receiving many enquiries about the validity of unofficial websites and Uniform Resource Locators (URL) that are offering rope access training or pointing to websites that offer unofficial ro… Read More

​IRATA International would like to take this opportunity to welcome its newest members who were appointed in November 2020:… Read More

​IRATA International would like to take this opportunity to welcome its newest members who were appointed in October 2020…… Read More

IRATA recognises qualifications obtained from alternative rope access certification schemes where comparative analysis of the syllabus requirements demonstrates a level of equivalency. Approved alt… Read More

An IRATA L1 technician breached the IRATA logbook policy insofar that he self-verified a logbook entry recorded in his IRATA logbook. Further to this, upon inspection of the respondent’s logbook… Read More

The long-awaited draft of EN 12841 is now available for public consultation. EN 12841 “Personal fall protection equipment - Rope access systems - Rope adjustment devices” is an importan… Read More

An IRATA Assessor arrived at a member’s training venue to conduct an assessment whilst under the influence of alcohol. The training venue management determined that he was in no fit state to cond… Read More

​IRATA International would like to take this opportunity to welcome its newest members who were appointed in September 2020…… Read More

IRATA International is delighted to announce the appointment of the newly elected Brazil Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) Chairwoman, Lúcia Costa Passalacqua.… Read More

​IRATA International would like to take this opportunity to welcome its newest members who were appointed in August 2020…… Read More