21st
Oct
2015

Congratulations to Neil

Neil successfully completed his IRATA Assessors course in January 2015. He was then required to carry out four shadow assessments with qualified assessors. These took place in both the UK and France. We are pleased to announce that Neil has now been appointed his IRATA Assessors License.

17th
Jul
2015

Thanks for Your Support

Congratulations to Neil for participating in Race to the Stones 2015, a lot of people wouldn’t of even considered taking on this mad challenge! Neil set off at 08.05am on Saturday 11th July, completing the first six miles in a little over an hour and the next 15 miles took around three hours, which isn’t […]

8th
Jul
2015

Two More Days to Go!!!!

Its just Two more days until Neil undertakes the Race to the Stones! If you haven’t already, Please please! Could you make a donation for this worthy cause? Please visit; https://www.justgiving.com/Neil-Wibrew1 and give as much as you can! If you are in the Chilterns in Oxfordshire to the North Wessex Downs, over the weekend the […]

2nd
Jul
2015

Absen Rope Access Specialists Safe Contractor Accredited

Absen Rope Access Specialists is pleased to announce we have again be accredited under the Safe Contractor scheme. We have been working through the audit process once again to remain current with legislative changes and practices within the company. This shows Absen’s continued commitment to our clients to offer a safe and effective service to […]

Absen purchase a new Act Safe powered Ascender

Absen Rope Access Specialists Ltd has recently purchased the Act Safe powered ascender! This will be use for various work contracts we have coming up and will assist in emergency evacuation from confined spaces and mobilisation of our teams to height on chimney’s and other large structures saving energy and time and increasing productivity. Although […]

23rd
May
2015

CHAS Accreditation Renewal

Absen are pleased to announce that we have successfully passed the recent CHAS Audit and we are accredited within the Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme (CHAS) for another year.

24th
Nov
2014

Neil and his BAF Certificate

Neil Wibrew is pictured here with his BAF Certificate. Neil has been observed carrying out Abrasive Wheel training by Soo Hosland-Round on behalf of The British Abrasives Federation

29th
Aug
2014

The Raising of Yoko

On Thursday 28th August 2014, Absen were asked by the organisers of the Folkestone Triennial to erect the flag pole on the dome of The Grand Hotel in Folkestone. This is just one of Yoko Ono’s three Earth Peace artworks situated at The Grand hotel as part of this year’s Triennial in Folkestone: A flag, […]

14th
Aug
2014

Changing The Clock Hands at Mitcham Church

Just another example of how diverse our client list is. We have a two man team assisting engineers at Mitcham Church, the work involved removing and lowering both clock hands and face to ground level to enable the engineer to carry out mechanical works. Once completed the team worked together to reinstall the clock onto […]

Emergency Works at The Thetford Incinerator

We’ve just carried out emergency works at an Incinerator in Thetford. Not the best of places to be in the recent heatwave but we are pleased to say we got the job done and our client was satisfied with the work carried out, especially as we were able to send a team of rope access […]