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DIFFICULT ACCESS AND CONFINED SPACES
Difficult access
Rope access work
environments mostly
involve significant
heights, sometimes
overhanging, and
are incompatible with
collective protection
techniques. The work
area is accessed with
ropes by specialized
operators, trained in rope
access techniques.
This can be done from
the top (safer and
simpler to set up),
or from below (for
example, a leader throws
a rope up and around
a fixed point, and then
climbs up the rope,
or uses rock climbing
progression techniques).
This is also the case for
temporary operations
where it is not practical
to set up collective
protection.
Confined spaces
Work done in confined
spaces carries specific
additional difficulties
related primarily to
the lack of space
and to the lack of
means of autonomous
progression.
ASAP LOCK
®
The ASAP LOCK mobile fall arrester has an integrated locking
function that allows the user to immobilize the device to reduce
the length of a fall. This function can also be used in very windy
conditions to keep the rope from being blown upwards. This
system is also undroppable when passing intermediate anchors.