IRATA Training

IRATA Assessor & Instructor Workshop

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Last weekend 70 IRATA Assessors, Instructors and Level 3s from 13 different nations got together at Petzl HQ in Crolles for an IRATA Workshop. The event was organised by Formacan France, and hosted by the team at Petzl.

Besides the recommended agenda topics from IRATA, Formacan had also put together a range of workshops including a presentation on the latest research in management of casualties at height, use of the Pantin foot ascender, a look at the newest products in Petzl‘s professional range, discussions oin harness/lanyard set-ups, and demonstrations of the new LOV2 descender from TAZ.

All in all a full and interesting day with much useful exchange of ideas.

 

IRATA Training – Switzerland

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Last week I was in Switzerland running an IRATA course for Altimum S.A. in Palezieux. The beauty of running IRATA courses in countries where it is still becoming established is the range of experience you can get on a Level 1 course – out of 7 candidates, 2 had been working in rope access for over 15 years, another had worked in rope access and related industries since the late ’80s, another was an ex-activist for a well known environmental campaign group and so on… (although experience also brings deeply engrained bad habits with it too!).

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All 7 passed their IRATA Level 1 assessment with flying colours – great to catch up with Mike Benton from Height Works who came out to act as the independant assessor.