A set facilitators guide, assessment guide and moderation guide ensures that there is fair, consistency in the training and assessments.

We cater for special needs like reading, writing and language barriers during the full training phase. Physical barriers are removed or addressed, like fatigue, noise, excessive heat etc. This ensures a fair and open approach to the learners needs.

We only present one rope access level or syllabus at a time. This ensures that the facilitators attention is not divided and can focus just on the learners in front of him. On other systems all rope access levels are combined, this means that you have learners that has never been on the ropes, as well as very experienced supervisor levels that covers different maneuvers.

There is no surprises in the final assessment.

On other training systems the facilitator hardly ever demonstrates the required maneuvers and uses the supervisor levels that is busy with training to demonstrate on their behalf. Our system consists of building blocks, like mastering the straight line maneuvers first, ascend, descend, change over, knot pass, using the seat and performing a pickoff rescue.

Each learner has to demonstrate and document in a portfolio of evidence a minimum of 3 attempts at each manoeuvre, before a progress assessment can be done and signed off by the facilitator. Only when the progress assessment on the basic maneuvers are passed can the learner progress to the next techniques like deviation, short line transfer, long line transfer, rebelay and loop.

On other systems there is no portfolio of evidence, there is no minimum number of maneuvers to be practiced and documented. I have personally experienced on other systems that you are not forced to perfect the maneuvers, you can do it if you feel like it without any inputs or supervision.

Historically the rope access courses run over 5 days. This was normally from a Monday to a Friday. A shortage of external assessors on the Fridays forced us to move form a Tuesday

To a Monday. As this is a very physical course, We found that the weekend rest before the assessment ensured a higher pass rate. Our current courses run from a Wednesday to a Tuesday. This give one day after a weekend to refresh on all maneuvers before the assessment.

Doing it this way, not only gives the learners time to rest, but gives a mind break and that ensures long term memory. This produces a higher pass rate with a higher quality technician that can remember techniques [not used on a day to day basis in the place of work]  for months to come.

If a person is in the ground he/ she uses one side of the brain. When you are hanging on the ropes you are using the other side of your brain. The techniques and combined rope access maneuvers that we teach also test Essential embedded knowledge and critical cross field outcomes that test your ability to solve problems when using the other side of your brain. This is very important factor that needs to be trained and developed before a rope access technician is exposed to very high and technical work sites.

Learners are proven competent though this tried and tested system.