The long-awaited draft of BS 7883 is now available for public consultation. The draft is a major revision of the 2005 edition and complements BS 8610, EN 795 and CEN/TS 16415.… Read More

​In an effort to combat non-IRATA Operator Member companies using the below ‘Trained to IRATA Standards’ logo, and other similar logos used to mislead the general public and their per… Read More

Further to our ‘IRATA Logbook Signatures’ article (link opens on new page), IRATA rope a… Read More

We are delighted to announce our first member company in Côte d’Ivoire, Global Energy Ventures, who recently joined our Association. We contacted Global Energy Ventures CEO, Ben Stanley, to ask… Read More

​IRATA International would like to take this opportunity to welcome its newest members who were appointed in March 2019:… Read More

IRATA is delighted to announce that we now have over 500 members internationally spanning across 65 countries and 6 continents. This milestone could not have been achieved without th… Read More

Our most recent UK RAC meeting was held on 19 March in Hailsham, East Sussex. The event was kindly hosted by one of our local Associate members, Marlow Ropes. Jon Mitchel, Marlow Ropes’ M… Read More

IRATA International’s annual Work and Safety Analysis (WASA) is essential reading for rope access managers, rope access safety supervisors, training companies and technicians. It provides some in… Read More

We are delighted to announce our first member company in Latvia, IQTC Management, who recently joined our Association. The addition of IQTC Management will bring our member companies in the… Read More

Anar Goyushov became the first qualified IRATA instructor in the Azerbaijan/Caspian Region. Since getting involved in Rope Access in 2007, Anar has personally benefitted from the IRATA syst… Read More

​IRATA Associate Member, Rope Sure has recently renewed their exclusive arrangement with an ‘A rated’ Lloyds syndicate, to provide insurance solutions to IRATA members. Rope Sure are one of t… Read More

The IRATA Chairman, Jonathan Capper, and IRATA General Manager, Rodney Marage, attended the Houses of Parliament for the unveiling of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Working at Height (APPG)… Read More

Our IRATA South East and Far East (SEA & FE) Asia RAC meeting 2018 and an Assessor and Instructors’ Workshop was held on 2 November in Banchang, Thailand. The event was kindly hosted by one o… Read More

IRATA is not an investigating authority. However, as stated in our Bye-laws, we seek to ‘provide a forum for the free and informal exchange of information ’. IRATA member companies must… Read More

An IRATA Level 1 Technician presented a fraudulent IRATA certificate to an IRATA member company in an attempt to obtain a logbook replacement.… Read More