Tower climbers are professional technicians who perform inspections, maintenance and repair work on guyed, monopole and self-supporting towers and other tower systems. This article provides information regarding the types of tower climbers, training & certification, expectations and rewards to those who wish to become tower...
Back a week or so ago, I read a piece on Inside Towers that struck a nerve. You may have seen it here, entitled Get the Most Out of Safety Training. The focus was what to do to prepare for safety training, in order to...
Why You Shouldn’t Use A Handle Ascender As Your Backup Device But why? Here is a blog post and video from our friends at Rope & Rescue that shows some testing they performed here at our facility at Safety One Training. Read here....
New EnviroChamber hits -70°F in Early Testing Safety One’s newest addition to our testing and training capabilities is our EnviroChamber. It can produce temperatures of -15F and above 150F. Throw in a 40MPH wind and you have a -70°F Wind Chill Temperature! Its can allow students from both...
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...
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,...
LADDER SAFETY SYSTEMS USING 3/8 INCH 7X19 STRAND GALVANIZED CABLE Capital Safety today issued the following Product Safety Notice: This Notice concerns the DBI-SALA Lad-Saf™ Flexible Cable Ladder Safety System, also known as a 'Safety Climb System.' Capital Safety has received a limited number of reports of 7x19...
Our training facility offers fall protection and tower climbing and safety rescue courses year round and we use a lot of rope. We tie it, play with it, work with it, cut it, stretch it, test it and break it. One of the brands we use...
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...
One of these is Sterling Rope, a manufacturer of life safety rope, cord, and hardware. Made in the USA...