Acuren’s Post

I made the front cover of the IRATA WASA report! The saying goes: the wise learn from others, the average learn from themselves, the rest don't learn! We like to think of ourselves as wise, and hopefully we are, though we should not restrict that wisdom to just learning from others. We need to provide others the information to also learn from our mistakes. The reporting and sharing of incidents, near misses, good catches, the unforeseen, or anything else that had the potential to hurt, harm, or damage, gives others the chance to learn from it. These things should not be treated as a point of shame or embarrassment, to be hidden away and never talked about. To care for others, to look out for work colleagues and friends, we need to share our mistakes so they can seek wisdom, hopefully learn and not get injured in the same way. For more information visit https://lnkd.in/g77SjEQv

Something I have suggest many years ago is a simple solution but nobody is willing to take it up because the height safety industry is unregulated & full of cowboys, unfortunately an industry oversight not addressed by goverment, even with falls from heights the leading cause to most serious injury’s and fatalities over the last decade. The solution. To training explained. AI ( Artificial intelligence ) followed by accredited training facilities “TASK SPECIFIC MODULES” and in refrence to the current falls code of practice set me the regulator “SafeWork Australia”. This could be as simple as an online goverment App on MyGov for example. It would have training modules for competencey based training, it would include questions and answers “not a test”, It would be designed to give everyone and anyone the tools they need to safely carry out the tasks under current law, right, obligations as a PCBU duty holder. HOWEVER - when misleading misinformation and disinformation and maladministration is present this unfortunately prevents the course of justice, even more so in an unregulated height safety industry driven by “vested interests” and plausible deniability” As I said nobody cares about falls from heights.!

Can anybody point me in the direction of finding the source of this information please? Y-hang: small vs. wide. ICOP and TACS doesn't state what is some distance a part, if there is a possibility of a swing that it should be considered as "wide". We all are aware of the 'rule' - if the anchor points are over 1.5m apart, this would require a Wide Y Hang to be rigged which means double connections at both side of the Y Hang, oppose to a standard Y Hang when anchors point are within 1.5m apart. This is the general rule I believe the industry works to, and I fully agree with it - however where is the information derived from? I have read through IRATA COP, BS7883, 3rd party training courses and can not find in black and white which states the 1.5m apart rule (only in rope access training material with no citation of source), closest thing I can find is about equally loading anchor points and if risk of a swing fall from one rope failing.... Assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Working Safely at Heights course. 3/6/2024 7:30am-2pm. morning break. lunch break. Minimal, irrelevant theory. Minimal, irrelevant practical. nothing on safe use of anchors, redirection, pendulum etc etc etc Signed off as competent. head out tomorrow, work safely at heights, apparently. I'm astounded that after 20 years in the industry this is what the RTO's are delivering and then deeming trainees competent and sending them out live. It is frightening, I believe that those trainees are now more danger to themselves than before they started because they believe they are competent, and they are not, far from it. Yep, those anchors, static lines etc, they're going to work just fine...meanwhile the untrained fall to their deaths or sustain serious injury because they don't know how to use them. We need to start advocating for proper training.....real training. IRATA L1 takes a week, a hard core week with very little room for error or you fail. Who's accountable for this? #workingatheights #falls #heightsafety #waha

rope access training 💪...

Who’s the training organisation ? Where’s the regulator in the unregulated height safety industry manufacturing, installations, resellers and trainers ? Failure of code of conduct and code of ethics. Nobody held accountable for gross misconduct and gross negligence. Manufactures selling and promoting unsafe and non-complaint roof safety anchor systems, unethical, not sustainable and not safe. The same non-complaint manufactures not only falsifying compliance requirements, but also providing misleading installation instructions and requirements, including unethical product training and practices. The same non-complaint manufacturers attempting to manipulate falls code refrenced standards so that unsafe non-complaint products can become compliant “words on a page” won’t cut it. !! Attempting to make major changes to current policy rather than making the unregulated industry regulated. The solution is simple: a) have the unregulated height safety industry regulated, including manufacturers, installers, promoters, resellers, trainers & alike under current laws, regulations, rights and obligations. Noby cares anymore, with falls from heights the biggest killer in industry, no industry trust and no responsible regulators.

Rope access training

IRATA Level 1 training complete

🌟Safely working with scaffolding and access equipment is essential in the industry.🌟 Get the knowledge you need to work confidently with our 1-day CISRS Operative Training Scheme (COTS) course. https://lnkd.in/eDsrHD-f 🌟Next course runs 02 August 🌟 #safetyfirst #training #careerdevelopment #scaffolding #safetytraining #construction

irata level 1 course