Equipment

Every IRATA technician is responsible for inspecting their own equipment before each use. This chapter walks through the items in a typical rope access kit — harnesses, connectors, descenders, ascenders, back-up devices, ropes, webbing, lanyards and helmets — and the standards, inspection criteria and service intervals required by the regulations and manufacturers.

A typical personal set-up

1. Wire anchor strop / textile sling, or a secondary back-up "duck" device.
2. Absorbica L57 and ASAP / ASAP LOCK.
3. 1 m dynamic EN 892 cow's tail × 2.
4. Isolated bull-nose from a 4 m continuous EN 892 dynamic rope.
5. Scaffold/Barrel to connectors.