ROPE ACCEss Training

Through a partnership with Pacific Coast Technical Institute (PCTI), we can train in NZQA Stage One Industrial Rope Access ( Level 3 -Elementary Rope Skills), and through The Industrial Rope Access Association of New Zealand (IRAANZ), we can also run Certificate of Competence (CoC) challenge assessments from Entry Level, through to Level 4 (Advanced Rope Access Technician).

Course Aim -Entry Level: To Bring a person from the very beginner stages, up to a position were they can work in a rope access team (inder supervision) to obtain hours and “see if this career is for them”.  It is difficult to find a company that  wants to take the risk in spending the time and money required to bring a worker up to Level 3. This entry level allows a workplace to spend a small amount of money and have the worker trained in the basics of:

• Prepare a site for Rope Access Work;
• Ratings of Anchors;
• Tying of Various Knots used within Rope Access;
• Conduct “Buddy Checks” on a workmate for Rope Access Work;
• Conduct Basic Rope Access Skills (Ascend, Descend, Rope Changeover, Knot Bypass, Re-Belay Bypass, pass through a Re-Direction, Abseil over an Un-Protected Edge);
• Conduct a Simple Patient Recovery (Descent Rescue)

The cost of this all depends of the amount of time / training required to bring a person up to a satisfactory level that they have the knowledge to undertake the “Challenge Assessment”.  A person may already have these skills, and in this case they simply contact our office and book in for a CoC Assessment.

Course Aim -Level 3: To bring a person from the very beginner stages, up to useful workers in the rope access environment. -Window cleaners, Riggers, Inspectors of wind turbines, NDT testers for vessels etc. To create a useful rope-worker for the industry, who is Safe, Sensible and Sound in their trade.

Duration for Level 3: Two weeks, broken into block courses. This can be shorter, if the trainee / company can supply proof of Fall Arrest, (or other practically based basic height safety qualifications –eg 10509 & 17025) and First Aid.

The course is focused on both the required theory, and the very important practical aspects of the trade. The subjects that must be covered during the two weeks are as follows:

• Fall Arrest Training (unless already completed with a reputable company)
• Legislative Requirements & H&S in the workplace
• Inspect and Maintain Rope Access equipment
• Plan and prepare for basic Rope Access work
• Set up and dismantle basic Rope Access systems
• Solve problems which require calculations with numbers without a calculator
• Communicate in the outdoors using a two-way radio
• Communicate information in the workplace
• Carry out Elementary On-Rope skills
• Comprehensive First Aid (unless already completed and currently qualified)
• Carry out simple recovery techniques on-rope

The course also covers a very wide range of Rope Access equipment, and it’s appropriate use and maintenance and logging. There is a great deal of time (the majority of the course) spent on-rope carrying out practical tasks. A trainee that successfully completes “Elementary Rope Access” (Stage One) will be a useful asset to their company.

At the successful completion of the program, graduates will be able to perform basic on-rope tasks in an industrial rope access situation. Graduates will have:

• The knowledge, skills, and attitude to seek employment in the industrial rope access industry;
• skills in the safe use of a wide variety of industrial rope access equipment;
• a wide range of rope techniques;
• the skills to deal with emergency situations at height;
• a solid foundation of elementary rope skills from which to further their skills in industrial rope access.

Pre-Requisite: Entry is open, However, physical strength, dexterity, balance, coordination, and motor skills all need to be unimpaired to work within this industry, for safety reasons. This is a very physical course, and many trainees have had to return on another course, due to their body not meeting the physical requirements of the course.

This course is provided through a contracting arrangement between the primary contract holder, Pacific Coast Technical Institute (PCTI), and it’s sub-contractor, Elite Training Services Limited