ROPE ACCESS
Rope access equipment management, built around IRATA requirements
Run pre-use checks, interim and detailed inspections in line with IRATA ICOP. Every harness, connector and rope is tracked by serial number, so its condition, retirement date and full history are one search away.
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From pre-use checks to detailed inspections
Schedule Manager
Pre-use checks, interim inspections and detailed inspections run as separate schedules on the same harness, connector or rope. Each carries its own checklist, its own certificate and its own list of who's authorised to sign it off.
Scanning (NFC/QR)
Tag harnesses, connectors and rope, then scan on site to pull up the full history in seconds, even offline in a synced account.
Product Directory and checklists
Manufacturer-approved checklists for Petzl, DMM, Teufelberger and 120+ brands in the Papertrail Product Directory, including PPE inspection records for harnesses and connectors. Build your own with the Checklist Editor on Expert and Enterprise.
Analytics
See compliance status across every harness, connector and site. During a Petzl Astro recall, 360 Rope filtered its records instantly to see which harnesses were affected and where, instead of calling technicians to check labels in the rain.
Schedule Manager
Pre-use checks, interim inspections and detailed inspections run as separate schedules on the same harness, connector or rope. Each carries its own checklist, its own certificate and its own list of who's authorised to sign it off.
Scanning (NFC/QR)
Tag harnesses, connectors and rope, then scan on site to pull up the full history in seconds, even offline in a synced account.
Product Directory and checklists
Manufacturer-approved checklists for Petzl, DMM, Teufelberger and 120+ brands in the Papertrail Product Directory, including PPE inspection records for harnesses and connectors. Build your own with the Checklist Editor on Expert and Enterprise.
Analytics
See compliance status across every harness, connector and site. During a Petzl Astro recall, 360 Rope filtered its records instantly to see which harnesses were affected and where, instead of calling technicians to check labels in the rain.
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Checklist Editor
Inspect
Use manufacturer-approved checklists for any equipment type, from lifting gear to PPE inspection records. Build your own with the Checklist Editor on Expert and Enterprise.
Full traceability, from first inspection to retirement
360 Rope is IRATA-regulated and Yorkshire-based, inspecting around 150 climbing walls a year alongside contracts spanning offshore NDT to Headingley Stadium's roof. Petrofac manages more than 50,000 components across its projects and locations.
“We did 1,000 items over two days. When you're doing proper PPE inspections on the ground, helmets, harnesses, 30 of the damn things at a time, the value is in how fast you can accelerate. There's no way you could touch that speed via Excel.”
James Pallatt
Director, 360 Rope
Related modules
Inspection Management
Harnesses, connectors, ropes and hardware, each with its own inspection history.
Staff Competency
IRATA technician levels and re-certification, tracked centrally so you can show who's qualified for what.
Incident Reporting
Log incidents and near-misses at height, and see the pattern across a site rather than one form at a time.
Hand equipment on with its inspection history intact
360 Rope has used PartnerHub to help youth climbing organisations take on second-hand equipment that larger clients no longer need. The inspection history moves into the youth centre's own account with the equipment data, so the centre starts with the full history of the equipment, a record it can show an auditor.
Invite
Invite a client, contractor or partner organisation into a PartnerHub partnership
See
They see the live record in their own workspace, with its full inspection history, not a PDF exported last week
Move
When equipment changes hands for good, move the shared record into the new account, and its full history moves with it
Built around the standards rope access teams are inspected against
Papertrail is configured around the standards you are audited against, from statutory thorough examinations to industry codes of practice.
- ISO 27001, British Assessment Bureau (opens cvs.babcert.com)
- LEEA Associate Member
- IRATA International Associate Member
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- Capterra Shortlist 2025, Capterra 4.7 (opens www.capterra.co.uk)
- Software Advice Front Runners 2025, Software Advice 4.7
Frequently asked questions
Will our technicians actually use it on site?
Yes. Scan a tag, work through the checklist, save, whether that's one harness before a shift or dozens at once. When questions come up, our support team's average first response time is under 8 minutes. Petrofac's Lee Walker: "if we have an issue, it takes two or three minutes to get through to Support and they're always ready to help."
How fast can we migrate our existing equipment register?
Your account doesn't start empty. Papertrail builds new accounts from industry-specific templates, so a rope access company opens with the folder structure, inspection frequencies, equipment states and record blueprint built around pre-use, interim and detailed schedules, not a blank account you configure yourself. Bringing your existing equipment list and inspection history across is a separate step, and we help you do it.
How does Papertrail match IRATA's inspection requirements?
IRATA ICOP describes three levels of check: a pre-use check before each use, a more frequent interim inspection, and a periodic detailed inspection carried out by a competent person. Papertrail runs these as separate schedules on the same harness, connector or rope, each with its own checklist, certificate and list of who's authorised to sign it off.
What does an inspection record contain?
Everything an auditor or a colleague might ask for: the checklist used, who signed it off and when, the certificate it produced, condition, retirement date and the full working history behind it. That's what lets Petrofac track more than 50,000 components across its projects and answer, for any single one of them, where it is, what condition it's in and when it retires, without digging through files.
Who is allowed to sign off an inspection?
Whoever your safety management system names as competent for that check. Papertrail doesn't set the competency bar; it enforces whichever one you've set. Each schedule carries its own list of authorised signatories, so only someone qualified for that specific check can close it out.
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