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Rope access was the
safest and quickest
solution for this
particular project scope.

ROPE-ACCESS SERVICE FROM SKYRIDERS
KEEPS LIGHTS ON AT MAJOR WAREHOUSE
Rope-access specialist Skyriders has helped keep the lights on at a 75
000 m warehouse in Midrand for a major retailer. The company was
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called on to provide a maintenance service for the lighting, replacing
globes that had failed, and highlighting any faults to be attended to by
a third-party electrician, Marketing Manager Mike Zinn explains.

The fast-track maintenance project became like the Midrand facility posed a particular Connect with Skyriders on Social Media
critical as it was affecting operations in the challenge. to receive the company’s latest news
vast warehouse. Skyriders deployed rope Facebook: www.facebook.com/
access and basic fall-arrest principles to reach The fact that it was a fully working SkyridersIndustrialRopeAccess
roof height, and then to move along to the warehouse meant that Skyriders had to Twitter: https://twitter.com/SkyridersZA
various lights requiring attention. structure its rope access in terms of specific
areas and times so as to facilitate operations. About Skyriders
Here the faulty light would be disconnected Another challenge was the presence of Skyriders (Pty) Ltd, established in 1998, is
and lowered safely to the ground for the conveyor systems on the ground, which a leader in the South African rope access
attention of the electrician. Once any meant that scaffolding was not ideal to industry, providing cost- and time-saving
solutions to clients in the power generation
necessary repairs had been effected, the provide access to the lighting. and petrochemical industries who require
10 kg light would be hoisted back up and rope access aided inspection, NDT and
plugged in again. “Given the constraints of the site itself, and maintenance work to be done in difficult to
the fact that essential lighting maintenance reach, high-up locations.
Commenting on the application of rope was required while the warehouse was ‘live’,
access in a warehouse environment, Zinn meant that rope access was the safest and Skyriders Contact
points out that it all depends on the set-up quickest solution for this particular project Mike Zinn, Skyriders Marketing Manager
and roof height. Traditional warehouses can scope. Our highly-experienced four-person Tel: (011) 312 1418
be accessed easily by means of scissor lifts or team was able to carry out the work as cost- Email: mike@ropeaccess.co.za
even cherry pickers, but a major warehouse effectively as possible,” Zinn concludes. Web: www.ropeaccess.co.za

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