Specialist & Rope Access Services

Our IRATA rope access service underpins our range of capabilities and packages, ensuring a safe, efficient, economical approach to inspection, testing, maintenance, construction, and decommissioning rope access work across multiple sectors.

Today Vertech is one of the largest providers of rope access technicians and inspectors’ in Australia and New Zealand. We hold IRATA accreditation as an operator and training provider with one of the best custom-made training facilities in the southern hemisphere.

Our engineered decking system is a lightweight, versatile work platform designed for pipe racks and under-deck locations such as bridges, jetties and helidecks. This dynamic system has been proven globally and is quick to install and remove with minimal wind loadings or contact points, offering up to a 60% time saving compared to scaffolding systems.

To achieve full coverage of the internal circumference of structures, Vertech has the ability to provide aluminum telescopic modular truss boom. This innovative, lightweight system is fully adjustable and suspended from a single mid-point. Our rope access personnel work together within spaces and rotate the truss boom to achieve 100% coverage of each elevation of the asset. Our innovative solution to accessing these internal surfaces has proven successful within several sectors.

For projects not requiring heavy lifting, heavy traffic or encapsulation, these rated ultra-lightweight systems can be erected and dismantled at an unprecedented speed in areas where access would otherwise be limited to large scaffolding or decking systems. They are minimally affected by wind or water loading and cost a fraction of other access systems available.

Vertech provides custom work platforms. This approach is especially useful when access is required to tight or unusual geometries (such as offshore platform legs, jetty pylons, and flare bridge structures) and is an effective method of engineering out ongoing costs or risks when accessing the work front.

Fall arrest netting designed to ISO standards is an ultra-lightweight, dynamic solution to protect plants, processes, and people. Where a secondary fall protection method is required, working at height operations are being completed, or work fronts at multiple elevations within the same load path occur, this system is often the solution. Vertech has installed the largest offshore fall arrest netting in Australia and used these systems on vertical structures to facilitate multiple work fronts both on and offshore across multiple sectors.

The APS Proprietary Access platform system is a multi-functional, modular and engineered access system which provides Heavy loading capabilities while also providing complete flexibility in its installation through a multi-faceted and modular configuration. The in-house APS engineered access platform system has been utilised across the power stations, the O&G sector and infrastructure sector, including major landmarks such as the west gate bridge providing significant cost, time and safety benefits to the customers.

APS has 1000+ tonnes of owned Layher Scaffold. Our dedicated in-house Scaffold Design and Engineering team worked on some of the most complex projects across the country. Our highly trained site scaffold workforce comprises 60+ core scaffolders with over 100 additional personnel to support projects as required.

Our services go further than engineering and site installation and include scaffold dry hire, stock and inventory control, scaffold sales while also providing customers buy-back options to help them optimise project costs.