Rope Access Vs Abseiling

For over a decade, there has been many changes to maintaining the building safety and good looks. People enjoy a clean and undisturbed view from workplace. They want their homes to keep the charm that they had five, fifteen or fifty years ago. The most popular practice of maintaining and taking care of their property is done with the help of ropes. Rope access and abseiling seem to be two interchangeable words. Widely used as a description of work at heights that involves the use of ropes, they are both used to denote the service in which R.A.I.L. Ltd. specialises in. However, that doesn’t mean these terms are completely synonymous. The real confusion comes from the language barriers caused by A true equivalent for the term ‘rope access’ is the term ‘industrial abseiling’, which is often simply shortened to just ‘abseiling’ for convenience.

The term “rope access” describes a specific service provided by an individual or group that involves climbing tall structures such as office buildings in order to provide a variety of cleaning and maintenance services. Rope access technicians are hired in order to clean windows in skyscrapers, fix roofs and perform any other tasks that involve precise manoeuvres at great heights.

What is Abseiling?

“Abseiling” is a term borrowed from German and describes a controlled descent of a vertical drop using a rope. In that way, it pretty much describes the same process as rope access, but it is actually a much broader term. Abseiling can refer to the process of descending a rock face, for example, and as such could be used for recreational purposes or any other tasks that are performed outside of the city.