Working in collaboration with Architects, General Contractors, Building Owners and Property Managers, ASG manages risk by ensuring Fall Access and Fall Protection systems are all code compliant and certified for use. This encompasses:
- Facade access design development
- Facade access engineering
- Project management
- Facade access equipment installation
- Work at height operating procedures
- Fall prevention training
- Preventative liability protection
- Fall protection equipment inspections
- Testing and re-certification to meet OSHA, Cal-OSHA and New York DOL requirements.
For Existing Buildings we:
- Audit systems(periodic/annual inspections, load testing, and certification) to ensure compliance with Fed OSHA regulations, ASME A120.1-2008 Standards and IWCA I-14.1-2001 Standards
- Vet maintenance contractors to ensure compliance with standards and regulations
- Develop customized fall protection training courses for contractors and facilities staff
- Develop documentation of existing equipment including:
- CAD Layout
- As-built Engineered Drawings
- Operating Procedures Outline Sheet
- Safe Work Plan
- Modernize existing systems to meet current standards and regulations
- Install new systems and provideengineering solutions
- Provide a unique Preventative Liability Program (PLP)
- Offerexpert representation in the event of an OSHA investigation
While advancements have been made in fall protection equipment and technology, falls and unsafe work practices remain a serious concern for work at height and this industry as a whole. After motor vehicle accidents lead in annual injuries and costs, falls come in second whether they occur at the same level, albeit a trip and fall situation, or from height, which allows for suspended access. Falls are typically unforgiving and make conducting a thorough system analysis vital to safe operations.
New Building Training:
Every new system requires separate training. Once a building’s facade access has been designed and installed by a reputable company with thorough knowledge of codes, regulations, and standards it’s time to hire a certified- rigging and access professional to evaluate and train your EBMC. After suspended maintenance and fall protection equipment is installed in new construction, the building owner, the engineering staff and the contractors using these systems must be trained. When window-cleaning contractors are selected by the building owner, someone must be charged with the task of ensuring they are properly trained on the existing system.
Existing Building Training:
Over time, buildings change owners, vendors and contractors and it’s very normal for training to get lost. Anyone delegated to maintain a building must be professionally trained to use a specific system.
Specialty Access:
Specialty access is the solution to a variety of tasks and challenges. From rappelling off the side of a building for charity, to industrial rope access services, to providing custom access solutions where no other conventional access method works, this all “falls” under our specialty access service at ASG. Let us take on your risk and exposure AND do the job that most can’t.
Rappelling:
We rappel (of course)! ASG’s IRATA and SPRAT training and certification allow us to rappel off any building or structure for any occasion. Again, we need no special permits. We focus on the difficult tasks where no other options are viable or cost prohibitive.