The role: Industrial rope access technicians are hired to do a range of tasks that are made more difficult because they have to be done while wearing a harness and suspended from a rope. Tasks range ...

Tri-State G&T lineman Kyle Broyles repairs a gunshot conductor on a 345-kV line in Montrose, Colorado. Taking a line out of service can be costly for a utility as well as time-consuming for field ...

MAINTENANCE and inspection of the sloping, 600-foot face of Hoover Dam is not a task that can be accomplished in a great many ways. In fact, engineers from the Bureau of Reclamation perform this task ...

Fifteen feet in the air and dripping sweat, the last thing I wanted to do was second-guess how I’d be returning to the ground. Or third-guess. Is fourth-guessing a thing? In Columbus McKinnon’s rope ...

Albatec has announced a major milestone in its growth, confirming the expansion of its rope access and geotechnical services beyond Western Australia and into the broader Australian market. The move ...

South Africa’s rope access industry is growing, owing to the high demand for jobs that require cost-effective means of doing work at height, says rope access specialists Skyriders Access Specialists ...

If you look up, you might see a building inspector rappelling down your favorite skyscraper. Increasingly, inspection by rope, which involves an inspector dangling off the side of a building on the ...