Who The Hell Made SPRAT King?

Could another reason be that the time has come or is coming that some standards that cross boundaries between the different rope access professions need to be consistent? In that way people looking to move between professions can have their experience valued? As it stands the only legally binding standards are those set by OSHA or whatever the equivalent is in your jurisdiction. In Ontario the fight is still going to have the ANSI Z133 accepted as the industry reg instead of the constant interpretation of other industry standards which leave many glaring gaps; the rated anchor point being one of the more obvious ones.

It would be interesting to have a gathering of the rope access professionals to compare notes and find the common grounds as well as an enlightening of the ones that vary. This could open the door for many who would be interested in making a career change from one to another industry...
 
chris_girard said:
Seems like the tree care industry are not the only ones getting pressure from THE SPRAT organization to follow their methods for SRT work.

I have just come back from CA where I became certified as a High Angle Rope Tech. specializing in rock scaling rock slope inspections for DOT work.

They are having the same problems with SPRAT as we are. ALL their work is done SRT, with 2 points of contact on the same rope. NOT using 2 ropes. Their system is OSHA approved and specialized to their form of SRT work, just as our's is, only we follow the ANSI Z133.

We in the tree care industry MUST not fall (pun intended) to the pressure that SPRAT is putting on us!

Thoughts?
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Hello Peter. Welcome to treebuzz.
I notice what you quoted and agree with the sentiments in that post, but I am curious if you have anything else to add to those thoughts.
Recent SPRAT drama, maybe?
 
@SomethingWitty; Maybe I'm missing it, but all I'm seeing is @Peter Aveyard 's quoting of @chris_girard, but no comment on the quote one way or the other.

Sometimes I've seen it happen where forum posters will somehow add their comments within the original quote itself, which I find confusing. It makes it so you have to grind back through a thread to find the original quote to see if anything different has been added by the new poster. It would be better all around, in my humble opinion, to quote someone's statement, and then to add one's own additional comments outside of the boundry limits of the original quote. In that way the quote shows up in a tan-colored box all by itself, and the additional comments that reference the quote show up with a normal, white background.

All of this is my way of trying to politely prompt Peter to clarify his previous post, by making any comments he wants to make more transparent.

Thanks for your patience with me.

Tim
 
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