PRODUCTS & SOLUTIONS Jebel Ali, Dubai, and the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre. Products from Akrobat include fall arrest systems, lifelines, personal protective equipment, harnesses, lanyards, anchorages, ropes for access work, abseiling equipment and railing for abseiling and the movement of gondolas. The company also provides services in the areas of design, engineering, manufacturing and installation, as well as consulting, inspection of products (in Singapore, to conform with the Singapore Standard SS 570 : 2011), rope access and abseiling. All images by Akrobat Pte Ltd
The SS 570 : 2011 Standard The Singapore Standard SS 570 : 2011 on the ‘Specification for personal protective equipment for protection against falls from a height - Single point anchor devices and flexible horizontal lifeline systems’ was prepared by the Technical Committee on Personal Safety and Health under the purview of the General Engineering and Safety Standards Committee of SPRING Singapore. The standard is based on ISO 14567 : 1999 which deals with ‘Personal protective equipment for protection against fall from a height - Single-point anchor devices’ and ISO 16024 : 2005 which deals with ‘Personal protective equipment for protection against falls from a height - Flexible horizontal lifeline systems’. It replaces SS 402 : Part 2 : 1997 which dealt with ‘Specification for industrial safety belts and harness, Part 2 : Permanent anchors’. For preparing this standard, reference was made to BS 7883 : 2005 on ‘Design, selection, installation, use and maintenance of anchor devices confirming to BS EN 795, and to BS EN 795 : 1997 on ‘Protection against falls from a height - Anchor devices Requirement and testing’.
Anchors fixed by encircling the steel tubes that surround the concrete trunks of the supertrees at Gardens by the Bay.
Retractable fall arrester attached to an overhead monorail.
Overhang monorail for rope access to vertical walls, used with motorised rope climber.
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