Welcome to the Professional Organization for Rope-Assisted Work Techniques – FISAT e.V.

We are the professional organization for everyone involved in trades involving the use of rope for rescue and work. On this site, we provide extensive information on professional rope access and climbing techniques, from safety guidelines and training to certification exams for rope access technicians. Our input in various panels and working groups benefits the continual further development of working techniques as well the constant improvement of safety in this field of work. FISAT – hallmark of safe rope access.

Here you can get to frequently used areas directly:

Assessment dates

Find here all actual dates for FISAT assessment.
FISAT Re-assessment dates

Find here all actual dates for FISAT Re-assessment.
FISAT ID-card validation

Check the actual validity of FISAT ID-cards.
Safety alerts & information

Find here relevant actual safety alerts & information.

04.01.2012

New FISAT-Logbook „PERSONAL SAFETY LOGBOOK FOR ROPE ACCESS”

In the beginning of 2012 starts the usage of the FISAT-Logbook „PERSONAL SAFETY LOGBOOK FOR ROPE ACCESS” for Rope Acces Technicians. This logbook serves as evidence of personal operating time employing rope access.

Here you can find informations about the logbook on a severeal service page. Please use the informations and instructions in German temporarily. You can also download the commented version of FISAT-Logbook here.

For further informations please contact zteam@fisat.de.

Coming Events

14 March 2012
FISAT General Assembly Meeting in Hannover/Germany
At the next General Assembly Meeting in Hannover on 14 March 2012, the election of the members of the Board is on the agenda. All FISAT members have the opportunity of influencing the work of our professional association through candidacy as well as with their vote.

16 and 17 November 2012
FISAT Techniques seminar for training companies and all interested partners.
Because of the positive response from all participants at the last successful event in Erfurt, we are extending the theme of the techniques seminar yet further this year, beyond the area of training alone. The date is already set; the site is still to be announced. We would be happy already to begin receiving your suggestions for content. Further informations and invitations we will sent to all training companies and members of FISAT.

Training programs

are conducted exclusively by appropriate specialized member firms! For all questions concerning training, such as dates, prices, etc., please contact the training facility of your choice directly. You will find a list of firms offering training programs here.

You may request certifiers directly by email.

12.12.2010

6th Industrial Rope Access Cup IKC_2011 in Leipzig

The open German championship in industrial rope access enters its sixth round. For the second time in a row, it will take place in the climbing hall “No Limit” in Leipzig. On March 12, 2011, the crème de la crème of rope access technicians come together to find out who is best, safest, and most competent working the ropes.

Since the previous year, the organizer FISAT (Professional Organization for Rope-Assisted Work Techniques) has been designing the competition to be as close to work situations as possible. On the one hand, the jury evaluates skill and speed on the ropes at three competition stations. On the other hand, contestants must also master additional tasks from the everyday work of a rope access technician. For the approximately 1,000 spectators at the 2010 championship, one course was particularly popular, the one where all 23 starters, from 5 countries, had to clean a smeared windowpane with water. Here, not only speed counted, but also the result. The jury deducted points for spilled cleaning water and for streaks on the pane. In 2010, the Hungarian Ligeti Márton won the championship cup with consistent performance at all three competition stations. The best German was the Berliner Knut Foppe with place 5.

Location: climbing arena No Limit in Leipzig
Time and date: 12 March 2011 10 am - 6 pm;
Accreditation for all registered starters: 8 am

Participants register by email to ikc@fisat.de

For further information see here.

With the friendly assistance of TAPIR Leipzig (lead sponsor)
Cooperation partner of championship: Berufsgenossenschaft Holz und Metall (BGHM)
See further information about the event location NO LIMIT Leipzig.

11.11.2009

Formal Presentation of the First New ID at the Trade Fair A+A 2009

The world’s leading trade fair for work safety and health took place from 3 to 6 November, again in Düsseldorf. On the fair’s four days, 55,800 professionals attended to gather information from 1,541 exhibitors from 62 countries about the latest trends in the areas of work safety and company health promotion and safety management.

FISAT used this opportunity among other things to demonstrate rope access techniques to profes-sionals at its exhibition stand. But this year, the focus was on FISAT’s multilevel certification system for rope access technicians, offering the greatest possible clarity and safety for users and con-tractors.

On the first day of the trade fair, President Bernd Redlin and General Secretary Frank Seltenheim formally presented the first in the new series of unforgeable photo ID cards. Dirk Otto, company manager for new developments at the suspended platform company Asmus and master electrical engineering technician, completed the basic course in rope-access techniques in October and then passed the subsequent FISAT examination. “After the one-week course, I feel a lot more safe in using rope access techniques,” said the forty-one-year-old recipient of the new ID. For Asmus employees, the course is a supplemental qualification in case a suspended platform suddenly stops working. “In such emergencies, we no longer have to wait for the fire department to come, but can rescue ourselves using rope-access techniques,” says Otto.