Storage of Your Height Safety Equipment
It is unlikely that your height safety equipment will ever be used to arrest a fall. Should that ever occur it is critical that it performs the task. Too often, workers take off their harness at the end of a shift, toss it in the back of a work van, tool locker, or sometimes leave […]
Categories: Equipment Tags: Compliance, Fall Arrest, Fall ProtectionSelf Retractable Lifelines – Horizontal Configuration
Self Retracting Lifelines or SRL’s. To most these are known as an Inertia Reels and more recently as Self Retracting Devices or SRD’s. When used correctly these devices provide excellent protection to falls from heights. As the devices are manufactured to lock off in less than 600mm they are very effective when used overhead. They […]
Categories: Equipment Tags: Equipment, Fall Arrest, Fall Protection, Roof Work, SRLAll In a Days Work
Rope access technicians generally abseil down ropes. Climbing up requires a completely different set of skills. The seemingly impossible task of accessing the warning lights on the spire of this Inner City Brisbane building is a standard job for our difficult access specialists. The images say it all, but really another day in the office […]
Categories: Rope Access Tags: Difficult AccessAnother Day at the Office
Another day at the office for Height Dynamics rope access team. This particular task involved the removal of product built up on the walls inside a 33 metre high silo. The instability of the product adhered to the silo walls meant that accessing the silo through the base of the silo created an unacceptable risk. […]
Categories: Rope Access Tags: Anchor Systems, Difficult Access, IndustrialOur Brush With Fame
Height Dynamics recently supplied equipment for the Hollywood disaster movie San Andreas. San Andreas starred “The Rock” Dwayne Johnson cast as a Los Angeles Fire Department Air Rescue helicopter pilot. Height Dynamics supplied Village Roadshow Studios a range CMC rescue equipment. The harnesses, ropes and associated hardware where used by the set designers to create […]
Categories: Articles Tags: Harnesses