The Easiest Solution to the Toughest Maintenance
Rope Access is a revolutionary solution for managing inspection and maintenance of critical structural locations like high-rise buildings and bridges. These locations are impossible to reach without aerial platforms and scaffolding. Rope Access was popular since the early times, as an inevitable part of mountain climbing and later became the immense need of captious ballgame! Rope Access companies in South Africa adapt to unanimous...
The Trustworthy Scaffolding
Availing rope access services is a safe method to perform critical tasks at abnormal heights. It offers a speedy gateway for workers to reach to difficult work areas. The basic purpose of rope access is to reduce risk by ensuring perfect safety measures. It turns out to be a quick, easy and safe solution, to all the choleric issues pertaining to maintenance and inspection of high-rise structures. Rope Access South Africa is mature...
DMM Buddy review
DMM Buddy Testing Rope Access Inspection’s L3 has spent the last week in the training center utilizing the DMM Buddy for a variety of rescues and rope access maneuvers, ranging from basic L1 rescues, to advanced L3 rescues. The following information is the opinion of RAI and each and every technician needs to use their own discretion and risk assess the specific application. * The DMM Buddy conforms to EN 353-2 (2002) which is...
Petzl Shunt
As many of you should already be aware, Petzl has brought out a statement regarding the use of the Petzl Shunt as a back up device for rope access. “Since 1999 Petzl has provided specific information regarding the special use of the Petzl SHUNT as a back-up device for industrial rope access. Petzl required that users must have received and mastered IRATA (Industrial Rope Access Trade Association) training or similar and must...
GUL NDT Inspection on Refinery
RAI has just completed a 2 week contract assisting another NDT company in performing GUL inspection on a live petrochemical refinery. GUL or “Guided wave ultrasonics” are utilized for the rapid scanning of large volume of piping systems. Guided wave utilizes a ring of transducers that is place around the pipe and emits sound waves that are sent along the pipe in both directions from the ring. Many feet of pipe may be...
UT corrosion monitoring on industrial chimney stack.
Rope Access Inspection (RAI) has just completed an onshore contract, performing Rope Access Corrosion monitoring on an industrial chimney stack in Cape Town. The three man team was able to mobilize in short time and perform the job without a single incident or accident. RAI prides itself in working strictly according to IRATA guidelines, and is an IRATA Member Company. RAI had to employ some unconventional rigging methods to get the...