It was necessary for IRATA International to amend and add additional clauses in their Training, Assessment and Certification Scheme (TACS). These changes relate to unsuccessful candidate assessment… Read More

ISO/IEC 17024:2012, Conformity assessment — General requirements for bodies operating certification of persons (ISO 17024) is the International Standard relating to the conformity assessment for… Read More

IRATA International’s new Membership Requirements’ will come into effect from 1st July 2021. This means that, on the 30th June 2021, the use of their ‘Membership Audit Checklist [FM-0… Read More

As an association we are still recording an unacceptably high number of dropped object incidents. These are objects being dropped onto, or close to, operatives working below and are quite often dis… Read More

IRATA Associate member, Rope-Sure, the insurance brand established to provide specialist policies to IRATA trained technicians and organisations that are members of IRATA International, has release… Read More

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

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