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26 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Rope wear? who gives a toss about rope wear?

 

LOLER. Anyway, I climb DDRT most of the time unless I'm doing work for myself and once I saw the SRT light I now resent DDRT a little. Mainly because of this rather cloudy area with HSE and the fact I didn't train in SRT. I've always wondered if I did fall at work it gives an insurance company a good get out of "you didn't train in SRT and this isn't the "approved" way... 

 

Anyway, I didn't want to turn this into the usual forum debate of SRT Vs DDRT... Not what this topic is about 

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Sitting on the fence here, we all make SO many cuts, thousands a week, so many change overs, re-routes, considered risks dozens of times a day sometimes .
We deal with structures we are second guessing and even the gravity and predictable force of the pieces we are dealing with can be totally changed by wind etc.
You amplify this with things like fatigue, stress, innocent distraction and mild complacency based on experience , then one day statistically something gives.
Luckily for most of us we laugh it off as a ‘close one’ and the knees stop knocking as we work on stoically ......but again, statistically the odds are that one of us won’t be so lucky with the laughter.
Let’s face it, we all do everything to stack the odds in our favour and limit risks as best we can , but ultimately we are human and no one can be 100% efficient all the time on every level .
I’m glad this chap has survived .
Perhaps he’s taken one for the team and as usual, after reading dreadful accidents of this nature we all just give that one extra check again .
Stay safe gents .....our world is not plain sailing [emoji1303]

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