Occupational health and safety concerns everyone!

When regulations, people and ripe material clash with and without expertise. Or as you could also say: Theory and practice are sometimes two different things.

Speaker: der simon - climbing master

Friday 11/22/2024
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Hall B5, Stage
German

Website: https://der-simon.de/

“I set up my own climbing park in 2006 and took it down again in 2021.

I gained a lot of knowledge and experience, which, after a reorientation, flowed into various other areas. I am currently working in the climbing park sector with service work and training courses throughout Germany.

I also do rope access work (colloquially known as industrial climbing work) and from a cherry picker. I also offer seminars in the field of PPE (use, rescue and expertise), as well as expertise in lifting equipment and the ability to work in confined spaces.

Through numerous discussions with the participants in the seminars and the people on construction sites, some impulses and questions arise that I like to address. I visited the Tecklenborg, Kegel company in Bremerhaven and the Edelrid company in the Allgäu region in order to subject collected works from these areas to a not entirely non-destructive test.

YES! I know that tearing apart “a few” utensils is not a highly scientific test. At the same time, the results are impressive and the remnants convince some people to think about some things.

Only recently, a participant in a specialist course said that he would now sort out one or two items because many things had become clearer to him.

The aim of this presentation is to examine a few points relating to the above-mentioned topics with practical examples based on the legally binding DGUV Regulation 1. The aim is to give a few impulses and encourage people to think about how to deal with the material and whether annual instructions are useful or simply take up people's time...”

 

Industrial climbing, Rope courses, Presentation

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