WORKING ALOFT TRAINING

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WORKING ALOFT

This training course is designed for technicians and crew working on masts. Following an innovative operating procedure developed by Elevated Safety, you'll be able to work on ropes while respecting the safety principles involved in working at height.

Under Harken’s ownership, Elevated Safety has grown rapidly and now has operations in Illinois, Colorado and Florida in the US, while its newest office in La Rochelle, France is well placed to run training courses throughout Europe. Today the Harken Group therefore encompasses two domains in which it has world class knowledge and expertise – the marine industry, plus safety and rescue.

Mast access is a technical and sensitive task requiring specific training, appropriate equipment and reliable methodologies. We can can help you optimize your existing access techniques.

The Safety Aloft course is tailored to different end users, recognising that a solo round the world sailor has different needs to a fully crewed vessel. Considerations for superyachts, megayachts and marine professionals such as electronics experts are different again.

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‘With a crew there is a greater risk of accidents due to co-activity on the boats, so the risks are different, we have many examples of incidents and accidents that are due to, for example, a communication problem with a halyard pull that continues while the technician is already at the top. Or the winch not being locked out, or the use of self-tailing on an electric winch while someone’s foot is jammed on a spreader. The main thrust of our work is to raise awareness of the risks involved and the procedures to be put in place to reduce them, Sailors already know how to climb the mast, so we're just here to help them make their practice safer.’

Pierre Masse (MD Harken France)

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‘There's almost a gap in our industry as there really aren't clear standards of safe practice,’ says first mate Alex Tower. ‘So it's cool that Harken has bought Elevated Safety and now they're bringing professional training back to sailors.’

‘There are a lot of practices we can use just in day-to-day life aboard the boat to make things safer and I think we'll certainly add what we've learned to our existing drills we perform on board,’ he adds. ‘Going forward, I feel we are a lot safer knowing the crew have been involved in this training.’

Alex Tower (1st Mate J Class yacht Lionheart)

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Course Includes - ES Certificate of Completion

2-day initial training
Prevention and regulatory compliance - Knowledge of PPE equipment ( characteristics, use, inspection)
Basic theoretical concepts (fall factor, impact force, air draft, suspension trauma)
Standardized personal fall protection methods
Mast access: optimizing techniques, double rope system, Basic anchor installation, winches use – Rigging
Rescue planning - supervision, Implementation of various rescue techniques (Rigging for rescue, man aloft system)
Risk analysis and accidentology study