Safety Alert
From warming up to the basics of spotting and learning how to fall, we've got some practical tips for your first indoor and outdoor bouldering sessions.
Do you spend your days working on building facades in urban environments? This guide is for you Designed for rope access technicians, it covers everything from essential techniques to advanced maneuvers, including teammate rescue operations.
This poster will help your teams carry out a risk analysis when they arrive at the work site. For the safety of your employees, it is important to monitor work conditions and protection measures before every work day.
If you are a safety officer for a team that uses fall-arrest lanyards, this guide will help you make the right choice and better understand the uses of fall-arrest lanyards. Two different versions are available depending on current regulations in your country (European or North American standards).
If your teams work with the NEWTON harness and the ABSORBICA fall-arrest lanyard, here is a PARTNER CHECK poster made just for them! Two different versions are available depending on current regulations in your country (European or North American standards).
This is our first Impact Report. We are publishing it here to share our corporate social responsibility practices with the community, so that we can be held accountable. It outlines our overall strategy and highlights information about everyday projects that will help us transform our business and live up to our purpose statement. Learn more about how we’re working to positively impact our company and our community — bringing deeper meaning to the work we do.
Do you work on electrical towers or telecommunications networks? Then this workbook is for you! Tower access, workstation setup, rescue scenarios: use this ACCESS BOOK to review several great examples of useful techniques for your job.
Check out our two posters illustrating the key points of a workstation situation on a pylon, antenna or wind turbine: the partner check and clearance value, which must be taken into account by all those who move around at height.
This technique guide focuses on gym climbing, for you to learn and/or review basic top rope and lead climbing techniques, including tying into the rope, the partner check, fundamental belay techniques, and how to clip the rope properly.
Sport climbers or belayers: this booklet is for you! It covers the basics of sport climbing. What gear to bring? How to belay properly? Which errors to avoid while climbing? What is the sequence to set up the rope for lowering from the top of the route? What to do if I don’t reach the top of the route? ...Find all of our tips in this ACCESS BOOK. This booklet does not cover multi-pitch or trad climbing.
This fourth booklet is dedicated to ice climbing. We address technical aspects of the activity such as equipment choice, ice screw placement, progression, building a belay or making a V-thread. What sets this activity apart is its environment: ice. Apart from technique, ice climbing requires significant experience to better understand ice quality and formation; this topic is not covered in this booklet.
This third booklet presents techniques for progression on via ferrata with lanyards. Often seen as an easily accessible activity, via ferrata remains a risky activity that requires training, as with any other vertical endeavor.
This guide focuses on planning and preparing for a ski-mountaineering or backcountry touring and includes tech tips on ice axe use, how to rappel, providing assistance to your partner(s), and glacier travel.
