Posted By Stuart Oakey Hi Joseph Try a company called Spanset, on 01606 738530/738531. They supply work at height equipment, and also training. Hope it will be of help. Stuart

Posted By Soter Daimones Can anyone help? The requirement to survey the first floor steelwork of a live phamaceutical building to assess sizes and condition of existing members has come about. The method proposed by the design team is to use a ladder with someone "footing it" at ground floor level, while the surveyor climbs up and measures the steelwork at a height of 4.0m As there is a lot of pipework cabling and ducting in the areas to be surveyed, I am concerned that it shall be difficult to ensure safe working. The contractor is reluctant to erect scaffold due to limited access and because the surveyor will "only be up there for a short time" They do not acknowledge that the surveyor is likely to come down a lot faster than he went up. Does anyone know if there is a limit to how high a single ladder can be erected and still be considered reasonably safe, personally I consider 4.0m to be impracticable. Regards Soter

Posted By Richard Hinckley Joseph - I have emailed you information with some pictures of the Rescue Genie system which is used for Remote Retrieval / Rescue.

Posted By Brian Jones We currently use Heightec for the rescue equipment and their sister company NARC to provide the training. I've attacehd both websites. We also use the same equipment for Confined Space rescue. Regards Brian http://www.heightec.com/...e-equipment/general.html http://www.narc.co.uk/