A major challenge for many industrial operations is to implement effective health and safety solutions without impacting on the company’s budget. Rope access is a safer and more cost-effective alternative to the more traditional means of access in a number of applications, especially on structures at power generation plants and industrial sites, including smoke stacks, cooling towers, petrochemical tanks and boilers.
After prolonged exposure to regular lightning strikes had caused structural damage to the tip of a 106m-high smokestack located at a copper mine in Phalaborwa, rope access specialist Skyriders was contracted to complete the repair work.
Following prolonged exposure to regular lightning strikes that caused structural damage to the top of a 106 m-high smoke stack at a copper mine in Phalaborwa, leading rope access specialist Skyriders was contracted to complete the repair work.
A large petrochemical company in South Africa has extended its contract with leading rope access specialist Skyrider to include the removal and repainting of one of the petrochemical tanks on site, which is 21m in diameter and 14m high.