The Industrial Rope Access industry has without doubt been a major success story of the 1990’s originally imported to the UK from France in the mid-1980. Rope Access techniques rapidly gained acceptance. Firstly with onshore applications and within two years in the offshore petrochemical industry. The past few years have seen the rope access industry diversity worldwide.

The reason for Rope Access success is simple. It is extremely safe fully endorsed by the HSED. Extremely cost effective compared with traditional access methods such as scaffolding. Rope Access is rapidly deployed (usually in minutes rather than hours or days) and even more rapidly de-rigged. The equipment is very light and portable ideal when using helicopters, launches or rough terrain vehicles to get to the jobsite. Finally, rope access techniques can get technicians to areas that would be simply impossible or impractical using other access methods