IRATA Training

A busy autumn of IRATA assessments.

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Despite a big block of lost time this summer thanks to 4 successive operations on my left eye I am fully operational again, and have had a busy autumn of IRATA assessments and training in France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Denmark and the Netherlands.

For Trainer Member Companies it has been a tricky time as many rely on Assessors from the UK who have mostly been stuck unable to travel, whereas from my base in France I have been able to move around most of Western Europe with minimal paperwork and the occasional PCR test…

Last week I was over at Kong in Italy near the home town of the fabled Ragni di Lecco climbing group. A good morning with a small team of solid (and already experienced) level 1 candidates who had been well trained by Federico. Alla prossima!

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.