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Window cleaner accident - Apple store sydney 30-Aug-2016 At 10:49:41 PM One Day Hero

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On 30/08/2016 technogeekery wrote:
>If it wasn't for the "nanny-state" regulations, there wouldn't
>be any of those climber type window cleaners and SRT access specialists
>with "fancy gear" and expensive training. They would instead be replaced
>with lowest bidder outfits, with untrained Turkmenistani peasants regularly
>plummeting to their death when their sub-spec Mongolian-made descender
>parts company with their non-rated accessory biners.

Sigh, you obviously haven't experienced the rope access world. It's chock full of lowest bidder outfits employing uneducated Aussie bogan/peasants with odd Aussie-made descenders and massively over-rated steel biners and crane slings.

>Climbers don't make the best heights workers.

I waaay prefer to train up climbers over non-climbers at work. Most at least have a respect for cliff/building edges, know something about rope protection, and haven't shown up to the job interview looking for "the thrill of abseiling".