“SAFETY IS IN OUR DNA”

We are the safety experts.

Veraspec pioneers solutions and methodologies that are unique in the extreme façade industry to ensure zero drop on every project.

We utilise a comprehensive and robust Work Health & Safety System designed to control the certainty of safety on every site. The Company Safety Plan is ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety certified and provides a methodical, systematic approach to site safety management that delivers on our core promise: sight certainty.

Safety is at the centre of everything we do.

IRATA Certified Rope Access Technicians

All of our rope access technicians are Industrial Rope Access Trade Association (IRATA) certified. Using rope access methods gives us great advantages in accessing difficult locations in a safer, faster way, with minimal impact on other operations, surrounding areas and the environment.

We choose IRATA technicians over any other rope access association since they are internationally recognised for their high expectations from their members. They have rigorous monitoring, controls and superior training and an international code of practice to support and guide their trained members.

If inclement weather causes works to be postponed, you can often find our onsite personnel in our various industrial facilities, where they are able to practise safe rescues and rigging techniques.

Inductions & Qualifications

We use a web and app-based platform to ensure the whole team is fully inducted and qualified for the planned works. With alerts and reminders when refreshers are due as well as a qualification matrix to help us handpick to best combination of qualified tradespeople for the project in hand.

100% of our onsite staff hold a valid Work Safely at Heights Certificate and 50% of our office-based team do too! While the office team aren’t necessarily getting up on roofs or near live edges like our onsite team, we recognise the importance of as many people as possible being aware of the risk and hierarchy of control to be considered when working at height; running from elimination to substitution before isolation, engineering, and administration to manage or control the risk.

While the ‘Work Safely at Heights’ Unit of Competency (RIIWHS204D) does not have an expiry date, the Working at Heights Association (WAHA) and other industry bodies recommend that this training is refreshed every 2-years. We like to be above industry standard in all possible ways, so we prefer to refresh our onsite team training annually to ensure we are always up to date with any changes.

More than half of our entire team are first aid trained, including all CPR certificates being refreshed every 12-months. This means it’s not uncommon to have a whole team onsite with every person being appropriately trained to deal with first aid situations if they should occur. We always have at least one first aider onsite, prepared with a first aid kit that is regularly audited to ensure it is suitably stocked.

Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS) & Prestart Meetings

‘Safety’ refers to mitigating risk of injury or damage to our team, yourselves as our valued clients, the public and the property you entrust us with. We do this, by not only using competent and qualified team members but also carefully considering the most appropriate and safest methodology to be used, which gets transcribed in a Safe work Method Statement; more commonly referred to as SWMS.

The teams conduct a prestart meeting at the beginning of every shift, to ensure any additional factors that may affect works is acknowledged, discussed in detailed and controlled by whichever means are necessary.

Servicing and testing

We regularly service all of our equipment including our sucker units, winches and lifting equipment; all of which are also routinely inspected for each and every use to ensure we maintain a ZeroDrop company.

We have a purpose-built register that alerts us ahead of services being due, allowing us plenty of time to arrange and confirm compliance for use.

The same register also assists us in arranging testing and tagging to take place prior to expiry; so you can rest assured, all tools and equipment used on your project are fit for purpose.