The Problem: Did you know? The second highest cause of injury in the workspace is due to slips, falls, and trips. For this reason, it is in the interest of every business to prevent the possibility of these happening. There are over 500 000 injuries related to ladders every year. Therefore, we can deduce that […]
You may have noticed the EN Standards for PPE (see images below) listed with most products on our website. What are EN numbers? Here in South Africa, we don’t yet have a full list of standards for PPE. So, we use the European Standards (EN) or we adopt these standards as SABS standards. […]
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Corrosion and Harness Check Over the last year, I have been doing a fair number of inspections of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) in the adventure industry in South Africa and abroad in the UK. These have consisted mostly of harnesses, slings, carabiners, zipline trolleys/pulleys, rescue equipment, and helmets for zipline sites and adventure parks. Some […]
Firstly I would like to acknowledge the extreme circumstances we find ourselves in this sudden and difficult time. I understand that many in our industry would love for things to go back to normal. Unfortunately, as more time goes by we realise that our operations need to make more long term adjustments in order […]
Due to COVID-19 there are a lot of questions in the adventure industry as to how we can implement policies and protocols that will allow clients to be safe and allow operations to continue. The below statement from Singing Rock gives some good information on COVID-19 PPE Disinfection. We will update this post as and […]