Asking a team of skilled craft workers to hang hundreds of feet in the air by rope may not sound like the safest routine maintenance option for your company. But that’s exactly what using a rope ...

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 ...

What is rope access and how is the rope access industry influencing rope rescue in the fire service? The pace of change in rope rescue in the fire service has slowed in recent years, but there may be ...

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 ...

SINGAPORE: He peered over the rooftop of the 15-storey building several times, apprehensive about his first descent, supported by just a rope. Minutes later, this rope access trainee managed to climb ...

A rope access team will be used to carry out high-level inspections of hard-to-reach retaining walls in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. The work is scheduled to begin the week of April 20. The surveys ...