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The PRAT®-standard
This PRAT®-standard describes content in and examination requirements for
the education to:Authorized Professional Rope Access Technician®.
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A. General requirements:
1) Age
2) First aid
3) Insurance etc.
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B. Skills etc:
1) Knots, belaying, belaytools
2) Setting up ropes. Belaystations
3) Equipment; knowledge and use
4) Belaying and lead-climbing
5) Prusik- and jumarclimbing
6) Abseiling
7) Soloclimbing and selfbelaying
8) Communication
9) Emergency- and rescue-techniques |
A.
General requirements:
1) Age:
Minimum 18 years of age.
2) First aid:
Extended first-aid-education, at least 30 h., issued by a known
and recognised party.
3) Insurance:
Knowledge and understanding of insurances, relevant to industrial/commercial
use of rope access and climbing equipment.
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B.
Skills etc:
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1) Knots, belaying and belaytools.
Candidate must show:
Safe practices with figure-8 loop, double figure-8 knot, double
fishermans knot, reef knot, clove hitch, bowline knot, tape knot,
overhandknot and friction knots such as ie. prusik, Bachman and
Klemheist.
Safe use of different belay-brakes and of the italian hitch.
Understanding disadvantages and advantages of belaying from the
body and belaying directly from the anchorpoints. |
2) Belaystations, anchorpoints.
Candidate must show routine in:
Setting up safe belays.
Making attachments and tying in with the help of both double figure-8
knot, bowline knot and clove hitch.
Establishing safe anchors from multiple anchorpoints (ie. equalization
of points).
Safe positioning of gates on double carabiners. |
3) Equipment, knowledge and use.
Candidate must show good understanding of:
Ropes; Disadvantages and advantages of using single- and doubleropes,
construction, length, strength, diameter, materials, maintenance,
storage, dynamics, risks by use, coiling and UIAA.
Harnesses; Disadvantages and advantages of various types (ie.
sit-, combination- and fullbody-harnesses), tying in, abseiling
and attaching to these.
Carabiners; Strength, materials, risks, advantages and disadvantages
of aluminium / steel, shapes, various locking techniques.
Slings; materials, types, maintenance etc.
Jumars etc; use and risks involved with using ie. prusik, jumars,
gri-gri and shunt.
Abseil/descending-tools; use and risks.
Fallarresters; use and risks. |
4) Belaying and leadclimbing.
Candidate must show great routine in:
Belaying a climber, moving on a toprope.
Belaying a leading climber, moving up and traversing/moving horizontally.
Placing safe stoppers when leadclimbing and traversing.
Using, understanding and calculating fallfactor.
5) Prusik- and jumarclimbing.
Candidate must show great routine in:
Climbing up and down a freehanging rope with prusiks, jumars and
ie. ID’20.
Passing from abseil to climbing and vice versa. |
6) Abseiling.
Candidate must show great routine in: Establishing abseils, setting
up and connecting to safe anchorpoints.
Avoiding friction/wear.
Knowledge and safe use of various abseil-methods ie. using figure-of-eight,
Sticht, Gri-gri and Italian Hitch.
Using prusik and Klemheist as back up safety.
Loosening jammed prusiks.
Locking off the various abseil-tools. Tying topgether ropes, even
of varying thicknesses. |
7) Soloclimbing and selfbelaying.
Candidate must show great routine in:
Selfbelaying, using sliding stoppers, moving both up, down and
sideways in ie. ladders and scaffolds etc.
Using and understanding various fall arresters.
8) Communication.
Candidate must show routine in:
Using agreed communication in belaying and using radio communication.
Using agreed warning calls. |
9) Emergency- and rescue-techniques.
Candidate must show great routine in:
Freeing a locked prussik.
Performing a partner rescue by hauling up an injured partner by
establishing an improvised 1:3 winchsystem.
Performing a partner rescue by lowering an injured partner.
Performing a partner rescue by lowering and then extending the
rope by another rope and “passing” the knot through the system. |
The safest industrial rope access authorization
Enables you to do all kinds of rope-access work with the highest
possible level of safety
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