Working at height safely is not achieved without diligence, careful planning and considered application. IRATA’s safe working record is independently verified annually through its unique Work and Safety Analysis Report (WASA report) that has been produced for the last 20 years.

The document is produced from member company quarterly statistical returns and compiled by a senior Health and Safety expert, who is encouraged to produce the report without editorial restriction. The completed report is made available, free of charge, to all stakeholders within our industry sector. These reports have shown an incident rate that is far below expected levels for the sector, reported by national governments or trade body.

The IRATA assurance of safe and responsible working is based on:

• Adherence to a strict code of conduct;
• Audited and regularly re-audited member companies;
• Robust membership entry criteria;
• Tens of thousands of rope access technicians who have been thoroughly trained and are required to re-train every three years;
• The independent assessment of every IRATA trainee technician wherever in the world he or she is trained;
• An unrivalled level of site supervision;
• Mandatory work procedures that are a constant wherever IRATA teams operate.

IRATA member companies approach their work with professionalism and a confidence in their ability to successfully complete a task. The certainty of industry expertise and adherence to a strict code of conduct has put IRATA members at the forefront of work at height and confined access projects globally.

In the last 20 years IRATA has achieved spectacular growth in company membership with a tenfold expansion.

IRATA is recognised as the premiere industry body for industrial rope access and related height safety.

There are now more than 500 member companies worlwide and over 130,000 technicians have been trained at IRATA facilities.