Anchor point & Height safety systems
Magellan Company provides the following services to ensure a building’s height safety system meets Australian Standards and provides adequate and safe access for rope technicians:
- Existing systems: Inspect, test and certify height safety systems.
NOTE: All anchor points need to be tested and certified annually. - New systems: Design and install a height safety system to meet the Australian standards and scope of works. Testing and Certification is also carried out.
- Anchor point installations, testing and certification
- Eye bolt installations, testing and certification
- Track system installations
- Confined space work conducted by qualified and experienced technicians
Anchor point testing is required annually.
All work undertaken by Magellan is carried out to adhere to the following national and state safety standards:
- AS/NZS 1891:2009 Industrial fall-arrest systems and devices
- AS/NZS 4488:1997 Industrial rope access systems
- AS1657:1992 Fixed platforms, walkways, stairways and ladders
- AS 2865:2009 Confined Spaces
- Occupational Health & Safety Act 2000
- NSW Occupational Health and Safety Regulation 2001
- NSW Workcover: Safe working at heights 2006
- NSW Workcover Code of Practice: Safe work on roofs 2009 – Commercial & Industrial
- NSW Workcover Code of Practice: Safe work on roofs 2009 – Residential
- NSW Workcover Guidelines for building facade access systems
- NSW Workcover Code of Practice: Risk Assessment
- NSW Workcover Safety Alert: Safe use of portable ladders 2010
