Rope Access Tips, Tricks & Chats

Simple question really, what do you do to stop you from cutting your when using a grinder or other scary spiny disk things?
We have a chat about what we see people do, what they could do and different…

This week we sit down with Nathan Hoette and have a chat about how you go from a dirt bag climber to working with the Kong to develop equipment and open an IRATA training centre at Kongs amazing faci…

This week we have a chat about Rig For Rescue, If I ask you what you think of when I say set the site up Rigged For Rescue what do you imagine?
We spend some time breaking this down and how we could s…

This week we sit down for a chat with Dirk from Ropes edge and discuss the great edge barriers they have produced using 3D printing.
We chat about how long it takes for an idea to go from a white boar…

What a year!!! Not sure this is what we signed up for when we started this podcast nearly a year ago.
We look back on how 2020 was, and how we dealt with it, we also look forward to projects we are pl…

This week we work our way through some of the questions we have been sent from listeners and people in our training centres.

Here is a taste of the questions we try to answer.

Am I a member of IRATA as…

This week we sit down with James Hollingsworth from White Dragon Access and talk about how we protect our ropes, what is competency and how do we measure it.

This chat took place a few months back aft…

This weeks episode is sponsored by Harken, check out all of the great industrial products.

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We have a look at the 5ish features of our new favourite descender/h…

This week we catch up with Marcus Raby, we get to hear how he got into rope access and where it has taken him, watching London be lit up from the moonlight while working night shift and his first off…

This week we have a look at the Singing rock and Ocun  harnesses, 
Long gone are the days where you only had 1 or 2 options for a harness.
We take a closer look at our 2 favourite harnesses and 5 featu…

Time for a chat with Brecon, how does an ex Commando find out about rope access?
Brecon has been in the rope access industry for over 30 years starting with a Q number, now with an extensive Global ca…

More products under the spot light with our 5 features series, This week we are back with Petal and the Grillon.

I have always been a big fan of the Gillion, back in the 90's before Petal had even mad…

This week we sit down with Paul Bingham, the brains behind the IRATA safety videos, he walks us through how it went from an idea to the videos we get to share with old and new technicians.
He also exp…

This week we are back to our 5 features series, its time to get serious with the Sirius.

See if you can work out which feature i showed to Skylotec last week that they didn't know about. Let us know o…

This week we have the great pleasure of chatting to Alan Forrest. It has been estimated that Alan has helped over 25% of IRATA member companies achieve membership status.
Have a listen to how a young …

This week we start a new batch of episodes on 5 features of products we know and love,
starting off with the Petzl ID, some of these features you may know or they might be a surprise to you that you d…

Ever wondered how the 3 levels of the IRATA training syllabus came about?
I guess if you have a chat with Sandy Allan, IRATA number 003, you would hope he would shed some light on the back story.
Havin…

The topic of rigging plates and double protection seems to be at the top of the list of hot topics at the moment, We thought we would take the time to explain the back story on the IRATA statement on…

This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with my dear friend Jaime Wood, our journey together started long before we knew what rope access even was.
Jaime has taken a rope access ticket and travel…