Dr. Bridgette Hester of Hubble Foundation is conducting academic research for the telecommunications industry. The proposed study will evaluate telecommunication technician perception of safety as a result of proper climbing equipment utilized in job completion, the use of climbing equipment as a function of a climber’s...
Our 2014/2015 training schedule for snowcat & winter survival courses in now available - Check it out here! We have classes in CO, CA and UT with more potentially being added, and dates announced for snowmobile, ice driving and winter survival lecture only as well! If you have a...
Welcome to our house. A house built with 25 years of safety training experience in a variety of areas including safety at height tower rescue, fall protection, rope access, drone flight, confined space, snowcat, ATV, snowmobile, helicopter passenger survival, ice driving, trailer driving, winter survival,...
Last week we attended the 2014 72nd Annual 72nd Annual NUTSEA Conference in Colorado Springs at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort. Beautiful place, and many nice people. Good to connect some faces to voices and speak with some new folks as well. As always we hold a...
From time to time we get submissions we like to share, pictures that catch a nice view or unusual angle. This week I received one from a customer in California with this note: Thanks for training us on some of the advanced rigging techniques. It was...
The Problem: First Man Up Safety. Fall protection. Tower Climbing and Rope Access. This is what we do, and what we talk about. Even after a training class, you will often find myself and our instructors sitting and discussing the state of the industry, and solving...
One of these is Sterling Rope, a manufacturer of life safety rope, cord, and hardware. Made in the USA...
Link Three workers were injured Tuesday morning when they fell while performing maintenance on a cell phone tower near University Boulevard and Highland Parkway. Norman Deputy Fire Chief Jim Bailey said one of the workers apparently passed out while working nearly 120 feet up the tower....
You may not be familiar with CAMP USA, but you should be. This is the exclusive US importer and distributor of CAMP Technical Adventure Equipment, the 120 year-old Italian climbing and mountaineering brand. With offices near Boulder, CO they are making a stronger name for themselves throughout climbing, for both recreational and industrial applications.
Once in a while a product comes along that is truly better that the competition. The TurboChest by CAMP is, IMO, by far the best chest ascender on the market today.