How Accurate is Your Inspection?
Just How Accurate Do You Think Your Industrial Safety Inspection Is?
While many safety inspections of large structures simply involve surveying from ground level, these safety checks are far from accurate. Accessing tall structures like industrial chimneys & smokestacks is a difficult task and many companies are not equipped to quickly and efficiently tackle such a feat on a compressed schedule and within a minimum budget. Since the results of a ground survey are only estimations, it’s best to hire professionals who can properly access these hard to reach places, whether high or low, so you know you the inspection has been completed correctly with results you can trust.
What’s the best way to access hard to reach places? Rope Access!
How Rope Access Works
Rope access is a safe method of working at height or hard to reach areas where ropes and associated equipment are used to gain access to and from the work place, and to be supported there while performing any number of tasks. With rope access techniques, our technicians can ascend or descend large structures easily and quickly. This is particularly effective in situations where other methods, such as large equipment or scaffolding, are not practical. Rope access keeps technicians safer than any other methods thanks to the use of two separate ropes which are each independently anchored. Two or more technicians always work together so they are able to reach each other in case of an emergency.
The development of rope access for industrial services like structural inspections has not only increased safety standards for the technicians working at height, it also provides a cost-effective way for companies to deal with repairs and inspections on their factories and plants.
Rope Access & Safety Inspections
Safety inspections need to be thorough and completely accurate, and should cover all aspects of the structure inside and out. Rope access allows technicians to survey every inch of the structure and perform a number of tests from NDT tests to Petrographic tests & more. The advantage of using rope access methods mainly lies in the safety and speed with which workers can get to or from difficult locations. It also allows technicians to complete work tasks with minimal impact on other operations and the nearby area. That means little to no downtime which could harshly affect production schedules.
Another major benefit of rope access is that the combination of the total man-hours and the level of risk for a particular task are often reduced when compared with other methods. Scaffolding is a popular method but takes much longer and can actually hinder the view or access to some parts of the industrial structure. Heavy equipment can be extremely expensive and can cause a lot of disruption during important production schedules.
Extremely Accurate Inspection Results
If a safety inspection is being performed as a precursor to structural repair work, the accuracy of the inspection is imperative to determine expected maintenance costs. In order to avoid breakdowns, outages or worse, large industrial structures must be properly maintained & repaired. A full, thorough inspection that covers every inch of the structure is the only way to accurately estimate the cost & time of repairs or maintenance needed. It’s better to be thorough from the start then to contract a company to repair a small problem which really turns out to be a huge, undetected problem once work gets underway. This can stall repairs & exponentially increase maintenance costs.
This can all be avoided by having a safety inspection done accurately the first time. Rope access technicians can determine if small visual problems spotted from the ground survey are really in fact bigger underlying issues that need immediate attention.
Didn’t Hire Rope Access Techs? You’ll Probably Still Get Them
Rope access has become a trusted, reliable way of gaining access to hard to reach areas. Even if you hire a scaffolding companies or third party contractor to service your industrial structures, they may hire a rope access company to come in and complete parts of the job they were not able to access due to height or equipment restrictions. Instead of dealing with a middle man who can drastically increase the price, get a significant cost savings when you hire a rope access company as your first choice.
Get the job done right the first time so you can save time & money. You can rest assured knowing your safety inspection will be completed quickly and efficiently, and most importantly it will accurately assess the condition of your structure.