harness and carabiners

 

Safety Harness and Carabiners

Do you know what is rope access?

Before talking about safety harness and carabiners, we have to understand what is rope access. Because the place where we are using safety harness and carabiners is rope access. It is a method that we are using to reach to the areas where is difficult to reach normally.

While travelling, or while walking through the roadside, you may be noticed people are working like spiderman on the buildings or they are hanging on ropes from the top of the buildings. They are called rope access technicians. They definitely have these safety harness and carabiners. Otherwise they are not allowed to perform these works.

In the tall building there might be some areas which are not able to reach normally. Those areas cannot cover by using cradles or scaffoldings while doing building maintenance, cleaning, or paintings. Those areas can be reach by using rope access method with the help of rope access equipment. It is a bunch of mechanical devices including safety harness and carabiners.

Carabiner is also can be written as karabiners. It is a small hook. that are used to connect between other devices. There is a lot of mechanical equipment which are using in rope access along with a rope. This rope can be semi-static or dynamic. There are some criteria to use semi static rope and dynamic rope. All other devices are connecting to the rope by using carabiners.

Safety harness is used to protect the technician, while they are working by hanging for a long time. Long time suspension can make the body ill and the person might be tired soon. Safety harness can help them to take rest and it is acting as a chair, and they can perfectly sit on the safety harness belts.

In rope access method, two ropes are using. One is especially to protect the person from sudden fall is something bad happened to the first rope. All the devices that are required to perform rope access job well, is connected to the technician by using carabiners.