IRATA rope access

[JLA1990]

Thanks Paul - due to the undulating ground a robo flail won’t work otherwise ours would be on it! Just trying to belt and brace it as its highways works probably over thinking it. Cheers 

Edited June 4 by JLA1990

[Dan Maynard]

I agree you'll need a decent risk assessment in place, but it's not clear to me that what you're doing is work at height - hence discussion of nptc or irata is a bit null. 

[stewmo]

Don't quote me, but I have heard that something along the lines of if feet are on the ground then it comes under Irata....

[JLA1990]

We will be accessing using ropes regardless of height, surely this must fall into one or the other?  We have nptc but not irata hence the question. We can have a concise/well formulated set of RAMS but doesn’t account for not having the base tickets. 

[Dan Maynard]

The nptc cs38 is "access a tree using rope and harness" so not really relevant. 

 

 From the irata website "IRATA International’s rope access system is a safe method of working at height where ropes and associated equipment are used to gain access to and from the work position, and to be supported there"

 

Is there a risk of falling from height and being injured? If not, it isn't work at height, you are just using ropes for stability. Holding nptc tickets would give you assurance the people are competent to wear a harness, maybe helpful.

 

It seems a bit of a rabbit hole to me, scrambling about on top of a conifer hedge isnt covered by nptc either but we all do it.

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

13 hours ago, JLA1990 said:

We will be accessing using ropes regardless of height, surely this must fall into one or the other?  We have nptc but not irata hence the question. We can have a concise/well formulated set of RAMS but doesn’t account for not having the base tickets. 

In terms of a 'base ticket', interpreted as "evidence of adequate training", if its a prerequisite / justified it may be worth considering something like this 

Embankments - Working on / Recovery from Slopes - Element Safety

ELEMENTSAFETY.CO.UK

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This course will train you to manage and maintain your own and co-worker safety while working on slopes. Find out more here

 

[JLA1990]

Thanks Dan & Paul for your comments. Thanks for the link Paul, food for thought. I wonder whether in-house training would suffice to show adequate training (from what I can see from the link it’s a day course and shows no accrediting body). It’s certainly not a prerequisite for this site more something that will make our works easier, as suggested I’m probably overthinking and maybe going down a rabbit hole. Cheers