Tractel is a world leading safety specialist for working-at-height solutions and services.

Essential Equipment for Elevator Installations

Part of successful elevator installation is never taking safety risks to achieve short-term efficiency gains. In fact, the right confined space safety equipment will facilitate, not inhibit, fast and effective installation.

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Confined Space Safety Tips for Elevator Shafts

Confined spaces present numerous safety risks, including entrapment and engulfment hazards. For elevator shaft work or rescue operations, confined space safety also includes fall, machine, and chemical hazards.

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PPE Essentials for Elevator Maintenance & Repair Teams

For elevator maintenance and repair work, safety managers and technicians must fully understand the risks involved in working in an elevated, confined space. Accounting for each fall and confined space hazard is only the bare minimum, and the safest operations are only possible by surpassing minimum standards whenever possible.

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How Load Turning Units Help Trailer Manufacturers

Utility trailers come in a huge variety, from small trailers for hauling tools and equipment to car and boat trailers and everything in between. Regardless of the type of trailer, workers who construct these trailers must contend with the often cumbersome shape, size, and weight of the trailer during the manufacturing process, which can be dangerous.

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Confined Space Safety Strategies for Underground Utility Workers

To ensure the power always stays on, utility workers must often enter hidden, difficult to access underground areas out in the field in order to install, repair, or maintain sections of the electrical grid. This is a dangerous proposition.

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The Importance of Pairing a Horizontal Lifeline with the Proper PPE

A fall from even a seemingly small distance of 4 feet can result in serious injuries. For this reason, both OSHA and CCOHS require employers to provide adequate fall protection for their employees as well as any temporary maintenance crews.

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Big Rooftops Mean Big Risk Factors - Solve Them with Horizontal Lifelines

Owners and managers of massive warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and other large industrial buildings have a duty to make sure the workplace is safe, inside, and out. And one of the areas of major safety concern is the rooftop.

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Key Safety Advantages of a Turning Lifting Beam

For most industrial manufacturing facilities, lifting heavy, bulky loads is more than a challenge—it's downright dangerous for workers who are exposed to the potential of the load falling. One wrong move and someone can be seriously injured, and your company will pay the price by way of fines, penalties, and lost productivity.

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Spring Rooftop Maintenance & Horizontal Lifelines - The Ideal Safety Combo

Commercial and industrial roofs can last upwards of 50 years, depending on the material. However, the practice of regular maintenance is something that can also increase the lifetime of your company’s roof, helping to protect the structure of the building as well as the contents.

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When Is a Horizontal Lifeline the Best Permanent Rooftop Fall Protection Solution?

Engaging in any activity on a commercial rooftop like roof maintenance and repair, servicing HVAC and other systems, and construction projects is highly dangerous. There are a number of fall hazards that workers must navigate in order to complete their assigned tasks.

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Optimize Your Shop Floor and Maximize Productivity with a Load Turner

Lifting and rotating heavy, bulky items in your manufacturing facility is a dangerous proposition. If done incorrectly, it poses a serious risk to your employees, complicates and delays the manufacturing process, and increases the chances that your components will be damaged. None of these scenarios are acceptable. Heavy duty lifting equipment such as an industrial load turner is the ideal way to solve these issues.

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Identifying and Addressing Confined Space Safety Concerns at Water Treatment Facilities

Water treatment facilities assure the water that reaches homes and commercial installations is safe for consumption. The individuals that work in these essential establishments face a wide variety of hazards and risks during the course of their work. One of the most dangerous being that these employees frequently work in confined spaces.

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How Load Turning Devices Make Your Heaviest Manufacturing Jobs A Breeze

Moving, lifting, and turning heavy loads in your manufacturing facility is no easy feat. It's not just the weight and size of the load that makes such an endeavor difficult, there are also serious safety concerns you must address. If your employees have the right equipment, however, even the heaviest load can be safely lifted and turned.

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The Top Challenges Fire Departments Face During a Rescue When it Comes to People & Material Lifting

Firefighters dedicate their lives to serving the community. From burning or collapsed buildings, forest fires, road accidents, or the occasional cat in a tree, firefighters always sweep in to save the day.

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Common Safety Hazards Water Technicians Face in the Field and How to Mitigate Them

The knowledgeable professionals who work as water technicians are constantly exposed to dangers in both their work onsite and out in the field, including working in confined spaces to manage and maintain safe processing of water and sewage. And while water technician safety is crucial, it's sometimes easy for safety managers to slack on the bits and pieces that make up a solid safety plan.

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How to Choose an Effective Horizontal Lifeline System

Horizontal lifeline systems have made it easier and safer for technicians to work comfortably on the rooftop or exposed leading edge of an elevated platform in a variety of industrial settings. When used in combination with the appropriate personal protective equipment, a horizontal lifeline can either eliminate entirely or arrest a fall significantly, reducing the impact transferred on the user and the lifeline system.

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Not All Load Turners Are Created Equal

In manufacturing facilities or in warehouses, turning heavy or bulky loads can be complex, dangerous, time-consuming, and nearly impossible without proper equipment.

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Deciding Which Load Turning Device is Right for Your Application

Load turners make the task of rotating and moving heavy loads a breeze in workplaces such as industrial manufacturing facilities, construction sites, warehouses, or a variety of other industries.

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Essential Lifting Equipment for Municipal Construction Projects

Cities, towns, and other municipalities often engage in a wide range of construction projects. The crews of municipal employees that are responsible for the build and repair of bridges, roads, dams, and other infrastructure perform demanding and dangerous work.

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How to Choose the Proper Safety Line for Your Search & Rescue Team

Search and Rescue crews rely on their equipment to do their jobs successfully, and it could be argued that no piece is as important as the rope chosen for the job. 

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Industrial Load Measurement - No Matter the Application, it is Accuracy that Counts

When it comes to industrial load measurement, accuracy is a top priority. No matter the circumstance or industry, from overhead weighing to force measurement testing to ensuring safety while operating lifting and handling equipment, an accurate measurement helps avoid costly and dangerous mistakes.

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Lifting and Lowering Equipment to a Work Site Doesn't Need to be a Challenge for Electrical Techs

Every electrical tech does important and hazardous work, whether they are a lineman repairing and maintaining the nation's power lines, an inside wireman, an installer, or a technician. Often, the work that needs to be done is high up a pole or tower, or inside a confined space, putting workers at even greater risk.

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Essential Equipment for Safely Accessing Underground Utilities

Safety is always a major concern when planning and performing electric power utility work. The most obvious danger of working with electric power is the risk of accidents and injuries related to strong electrical currents.

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Moving People During a Fire Rescue – Safe, Strong Equipment

Firefighters and rescue teams consist of highly trained, strong individuals that come together to protect people and property. Despite their experience, strength, and stamina there are some things that are physically impossible for them to do without mechanical help.

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Workplace Safety in the Renewable Energy Sector: Keeping Wind Turbine Climbers Safe

Renewable, clean energy sources like wind power are becoming more prevalent and more important around the globe. And with an average height of over 300 feet/90 meters, wind turbines present a host of hazards to the workers who work in and on them.

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8 Tips for Safe, Accurate & Efficient Load Measurement

When it comes to load measurement, you already know there’s no such thing as “close enough.” Whether you're measuring in kilograms, pounds, or tons, accuracy is the name of the game. Even the slightest miscalculation can lead to costly or dangerous mistakes.

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Tower Rescue: Bringing Injured Workers Down Safely

Working on tower sites is a high-risk operation—and when there is an injury or accident, performing a rescue can be an even riskier one. With today’s rapid growth of communication technology, tower climbers are in high demand. Considering that, upticks in accidents usually correlate with increased construction and tech rollouts, tower rescue awareness and know-how should be a high priority.

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Equipment for Lifting Up and Tearing Down: Manual Hoists in Firefighting

Whether responding to a structure fire, accident, or the aftermath of a natural disaster, firefighters need strength and endurance. While these brave men and women are certainly physically fit and capable, some jobs require more than manpower.

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5 Major Safety Hazards for Municipal Sewage Workers

Sewage and water treatment work are vitally important to every municipality. Preventing pollution and protecting public safety by removing contaminants from sewage and wastewater to make them suitable for discharge to the environment or for appropriate reuse can also be hard, dangerous work.

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Essential Tools for a Mountain Rescue Team

Few jobs are as heroic and harrowing as a mountain rescuer. High altitudes, difficult terrain, harsh weather—mount rescuers need to be prepared to handle it all. The magnitude and range of tasks performed by mountain rescue teams requires a multitude of skills, including technical know-how, first aid, physical fitness and endurance, as well as bravery in the face of danger.

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Load Measurement & Control: The Equipment You'll Need for a Full Load Measurement System

Industries like manufacturing, shipping, construction, and many more require the ability to lift and control heavy loads. Unfortunately, this can put employees, the load you're lifting, and your facility at risk. Remember that whether you are moving equipment or handling materials, safety needs to be your number one priority. Protecting your people is always of the utmost importance.

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Understanding and Mitigating the Atypical Confined Space Hazards

There is nothing more important than protecting your employees when they're at work. That’s why developing a safety plan for your facility and installing OSHA-compliant safety equipment is so vital. And one thing that you cannot miss is addressing confined space safety. 

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Keep Both Rescuees & Rescuers Safe During a Confined Space Rescue

Working in confined spaces can be extremely dangerous. Depending upon the space, entrants may be exposed to environmental contaminants, extreme temperatures, shock, engulfment, or falls and other physical injuries. If something goes wrong, having a rescue team on stand-by is essential. 

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When Muscle Power Isn't Enough: Lifting & Handling Equipment for Fire Departments

Did you know that there are more than a million firefighters in the United States and more than 150,000 in Canada? Putting out fires and rescuing individuals from burning buildings isn't all these brave people do.

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Safety Considerations When Retrofitting State & Government Office Buildings

Newer and more demanding building standards that require higher energy efficiency and lower environmental impact have changed the way new buildings are constructed. They’re also increasingly applied to existing buildings, including the state and government offices.

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Best Practices: How to Safely Lift Equipment to the Top of a Wind Turbine

Worldwide, there is huge interest in alternative energy sources like wind power. In fact, the world's renewable energy capacity increased by a whopping 45% in 2020, and that figure is only expected to increase.

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Essential Safety Equipment for Wind Techs Operating at Height

Alternative energy sources like wind power are slowly replacing fossil fuels and other non-renewable energy sources. That's good news for the environment and the job market.

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Five Great Uses for a Wire Rope Hoist

One of the most versatile and widely used pieces of manual lifting equipment across many industries is the lever-operated wire rope hoist. 

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Safe, Versatile Lifting & Handling Solutions for Water Technicians in the Field

Communities rely heavily upon the men and women who manage and maintain the free flow and safe processing of water and sewage. Unfortunately, it's not an easy job and there are myriad safety risks that water techs face on a daily basis.

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“Safety in Numbers: Supporting Teams Working in Confined Spaces”

Working in an open area where there's plenty of space to move around is often ideal. But, sometimes, workers have no choice but to enter a confined space to complete a task. It’s extremely risky (and often a violation of safety laws and regulations) for a lone worker to enter a confined space without a well-trained team to assist them.

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“Common Hazards of Confined Spaces in Food Processing Facilities”

There are endless potential dangers in every food and beverage manufacturing and storage facility. Well-known safety needs such as infection control, machinery guarding, and fall prevention equipment are usually top-of-mind at food processing facilities. But there's another danger that's not always so familiar, and which requires specialized knowledge and equipment to address.

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2022's Top Safety Tips for the Wind Energy Industry

There are more than 55,000 wind turbines across the US and over 300 separate wind farms in Canada, providing enough power to serve tens of millions of homes. And experts predict wind power is going to become even more prevalent in the future. The process of getting the energy from the wind into homes and businesses is technologically complicated, and hundreds of thousands of workers are part of the wind power industry.

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“5 Myths About Confined Space Safety”

Providing your employees with a safe workplace is your number one priority. It's also your duty under OSHA or Canada Occupational Health & Safety regulations, and failure to comply can lead to hefty fines and penalties. 

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Best Practices: Protecting Water Treatment Workers in Confined Spaces

Municipal water and sewage facilities are essential for the health and well-being of the community. Dedicated personnel and large, sophisticated machinery work constantly to ensure access to clean water, as well as processing sewage and other wastewater safely.

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Why Wire Rope Hoists are an Ideal Choice for Material Handling

Across industries and at every step of the supply chain, the moving, protection, storage, and job site use of materials and products create endless tasks and challenges for material handling professionals. 

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How To Remove Trees Using A Wire Rope Hoist?

Best Practices: removal of downed or felled trees using a manual wire rope hoist. During recovery work after a storm or as part of land reclamation or groundskeeping, removing fully or partially fallen trees is a hard, potentially dangerous job. 

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Why the Wire Rope Hoist is a Fireman’s Best Friend?

Firefighters know that every call could become a major incident. A crew might need to rescue a victim from a below-grade vehicle, lower firefighters into an enclosed space, or tear away heavy roofing to vent a burning building. 

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NEW: dynasafe® Mecha range!

Our range of Tractel dynasafe® Mechanical Load Limiters have been updated and streamlined into the dynasafe® Mecha range, comprising of the dynasafe® Mecha 3.2, Mecha 7 and Mecha 12.

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When You'll Need Manual Chain Hoists

In countless applications across nearly every industry that involves moving heavy objects, manual chain hoists (also sometimes called chain blocks, chain pulleys, lifting hoists, or even block and tackles) provide many benefits. This article provides an overview of the important features, functions, and industrial uses of the versatile manual chain hoist.

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What to Look for When Buying Lever Hoists

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Hoist Choices: Which Wire Rope Hoists are Right for Your Application?

Across the globe, entire industries are adapting to new, changing requirements and the increasing need for systemic enhancements. Infrastructure improvements like roads and bridges, as well as new factory constructions and modernization projects require a second look at the way the global industry operates - in both large- and small-scale applications.

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Selecting the Right Safety Harnesses for the Job

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Griphoist® Wire Rope Hoist Series - Quick to set-up and easy to use

The griphoist®/tirfor® wire rope hoist is built to be safe, reliable - designed to maximize efficiency for any lifting and pulling job.

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Scanclimber®

The Leading European mast climbing manufacturer is now available in North America.

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OSHA's National Safety Stand

This week Tractel is working with Marr Companies to provide Competent Person training at Marr’s Center for Safety. What a great way to spend a couple days during OSHA’s National Safety Stand Down to Prevent Falls in Construction.

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derope®

With an easy setup and execution, the derope® family of products is perfect for any worksite.

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skybeam®

Tractel®, one of the world-leading height safety specialists, is proud to introduce skybeam®, a new lightweight, 1,000 lb. capacity modular suspension beam.

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Tractel® is proud to announce the tracforce® welding harness

For Industrial and Commercial Welders Who Work at Heights

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New improved Online Catalog

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wind tracx harness

Tractel® is proud to announce the wind tracx harness, the perfect safety solution for the constantly growing wind industry.

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tralift® TT Launches in North America

A robust chain hoist that delivers on design and performance.

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Height Safety Cleaning Guide

Tractel® Recommendations for cleaning or disinfecting your fall protection equipment

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derope® Controlled Descent Devices

Tractel’s® reputation as a leader in safety equipment is apparent in the quality of the derope® controlled descent device family of products. On worksites requiring emergency controlled descent devices, there’s no better choice. The derope® family of products are easy to use, require minimal training, and are designed to be used on unconscious workers, as demonstrated in the video.

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guard trac rental®

NEW: guard trac rental® – A cost-effective passive fall protection system for workplace safety.

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tirak® XE500P+ and XE501P+ hoists

We made the Best even Better. Tractel® is proud to announce the tirak® XE500P+ and XE501P+ hoists, the ideal partner for any modern and efficient rental fleet.   Tractel® pushes the industry standard to greater heights with our newest tirak®. Already the leader in safety, reliability, and durability we now introduce the latest tirak®

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NEW! stopcable® ladder safety system

Introducing the new stopcable® ladder safety system, a permanent wire rope fall protection system for climbing fixed ladders or other vertical structures.

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NEW: tracx Tower harness

Introducing our new tracx Tower harness, benefitting from all the great performance characteristics of the tracx family, with additional design features specific to tower, mast and aerial climbing industries. 

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Tractel®'s Latest Building Maintenance Units

Tractel® BMUs are designed and manufactured to fit any building. Industry leading solutions provide safe and secure access when and where you need it. Now featuring a new fail safe remote control units located on the platform and roof level. The control system is equipped with dedicated failsafe toggle switches. User friendly design with dedicated switches for each function that eliminates unintentional machine movement.There are three forms of central communication available wireless, conductor core or cable.

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Tractel® in Action: Prime Tower

A stunning example of Dubai’s best architecture and design, Prime Tower is a 37-story commercial building in the heart of Business Bay.

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Tractel® in Action: 23 Marina

23 Marina in Dubai houses one of Tractel® Secalt S.A.’s Jupiter BMUs on its upper technical floor with openable doors which enable the cradle to be launched out of the tower.

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How to Correctly Fit Your Harness

Safely and Securely Adjust Your Harness

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Air Hoists at Mackinac Bridge, Michigan US

This case involves the usage of Tractel® Air Hoists on the Mackinac Bridge, the 5th longest suspension bridge in the world

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Will Your Equipment Keep You Safe?

How to Choose the Best Fall Protection Equipment for Your Work

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Scaffold & Access Industry Association (SAIA) Annual Convention & Exposition

Tractel® participated in Scaffold & Access Industry Association (SAIA) Annual Convention & Exposition held from 9-12 July, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois US.

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NEW: tracx Tower harness

Introducing our new tracx Tower harness, benefitting from all the great performance characteristics of the tracx family, with additional design features specific to tower, mast and aerial climbing industries. 

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NEW! stopcable® ladder safety system

Introducing the new stopcable® ladder safety system, a permanent wire rope fall protection system for climbing fixed ladders or other vertical structures.

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