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The Petzl Foundation

Finding new directions

Climbing towards a summit or progressing in the vertical world gives birth to passions that make women
and men grow, push, rejoice and dream. For over 10 years, the Petzl Foundation's mission has been to
support or initiate projects for the greater good through its activities in the mountain and vertical spheres,
projects that help bring balance to humankind's place in its natural, cultural, and economic environments.

The Petzl Foundation:
- encouraging learning and risk management to avoid accidents
- promoting the preservation of hard-to-access ecosystems
- contributing to enhanced understanding of current practices and their environments

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Example of funded project
Better understanding workplace injuries of rope
access workers
Rope work tends to lead to musculo-skeletal problems that are In a research report made public in June 2017 and available
directly related to work conditions, difficulty of worksite access, free of charge in English and French on the Petzl Foundation
and suspension in the harness. To better understand the website, the researchers lay out their results:
causes of injuries to workers at height, the Petzl Foundation - a description of the population (working conditions, living
supports a multidisciplinary research team which conducted conditions, careers, injuries)
a study of rope access workers in 2016 and 2017. - the nature of their injuries
- profiles of the rope access workers in relation to the types
Even though falls appear to be the number one risk facing of injuries
rope work professionals, injuries that present little immediate - directions for prevention and research perspectives.
effect or any musculo-skeletal issues can place these workers
at risk and negatively affect the companies that employ them. The purpose of this study was to identify new directions for
prevention to improve the health of rope access workers,
The objective of the study, supported by the Petzl whose careers are too often cut short because of injury.
Foundation and socio-professionals in the sector, was to
better understand the profile of rope access workers and to This study was carried out:
determine the different factors at the root of their workplace - by the Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité
injuries and illnesses. The research team was interested not (LIBM) and the Laboratoire sur les Vulnérabilités et l’innovation
only in trauma, but also in over-use injuries and other issues dans le Sport (L-Viss), at the University of Lyon I
related to the specifics of the profession. - in partnership with the OPPBTP, the SFETH, the GRETA from
Die, the DPMC, and the SYFFORAH
To carry out the study, a questionnaire was distributed to 500
rope access workers in the Rhône-Alpes region, representing Petzl Foundation's contribution to the research team in 2016
approximately 10 % of French rope access workers. The rope and 2017: 20,000 €
workers themselves filled in the questionnaires anonymously,
for privacy reasons. After tabulation, the fieldwork produced Read about all Petzl Foundation projects at
478 usable questionnaires, a sample size that approached www.fondation-petzl.org
the stated requirement for providing reliable information.

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