ROPE ACCESS AND TRADE
ACCESS
IMPACT
ROPE ACCESS
AND TRADES
SOLUTIONS
Our rope access trades teams have the experience and qualifications suited to providing effective solutions. We provide self managed teams of rope access technicians with multiple skills and qualifications (advanced riggers, dogmen, advanced scaffolders, fitters, boilermakers, welders, electricians, roofers, carpenters, painters, bricklayers, plumbers, refractory technicians, NDT technicians, etc.).
Our teams can be configured for different tasks, or various dynamic combinations of all our capabilities. Our industrial rope access capabilities include but are not limited to:
- mobile welding capability
- calibrated torquing and mechanical
- specialist blasting and coating capability
- NDT inspection
- refractory maintenance
- industrial or environmental installations/ hazard reduction
- work at height and confined space management
DBC integrates rope access and advanced rigging with other lifting and access methods to create advanced lifting and access capability whether using engineered scaffolding, mobile platforms and/or integrating with cranage. Developing and enabling complex lifting approaches engineered to make the best use of available technology and our multiple skills.
Our people are multi-skilled and equipped with the latest industry tools, technology and training in order to complete inspections, installations, attend planned shutdowns and respond to unplanned breakdowns, or provide stand by rescue, hazard reduction, and retrieval services.
Through skillful allocation of appropriate resources for the work scope at hand, DBC excels at service provision. Whether it is planned or urgent, our clients are confident in our ability to adequately respond, and efficiently resolve any issue.
As an IRATA accredited rope access member company, our work and training systems are rigorously monitored and audited against the IRATA international code of practice. These processes ensure our procedures are aligned with the latest best practice safety requirements of IRATA to protect all personnel conducting work at height and in confined space. Through detailed planning, operational and WHSEQ management, and experienced supervision, DBC is able to conduct effective maintenance solutions for our clients with well supported self managed, in house, trade teams.
With containerised equipment stores and mobile workshops DBC has an expanded geographical presence across Eastern Australia, with the ability to help clients access work areas with a safe and reliable solution wherever they are located.
INSPECTION
Our agile team of access professionals help you get a closer insight to your greatest assets. Where you can’t reach, see, or touch, we can. This provides you with unparalleled knowledge as to the condition of your asset.
DBC inspections may be in response to a breakdown or part of routine regular maintenance.
Routine close visual inspection and NDT inspection are extremely beneficial to identify any potential causes of future breakdown as they develop and prior to failure. This enables you to maximise the reliability of your asset.
When a breakdown has occurred, DBC is responsive in pulling together and allocating a team to attend the worksite as soon as possible. Once onsite, our experienced technicians will conduct an extensive inspection to recognise potential causes and collaborate with you on immediate strategies to rectify the breakdown. We typically have the resources to also undertake the repair in situ and get your asset back up and running.
When the issue for investigation is at the top of a chimney or inside a filthy confined space which has not been accessed since construction, it is important to know you are working with a highly experienced inspection and access provider. We can provide similar Case Studies for comparison from our 25 year history carrying out asset inspection and maintenance.
Inspection and testing services we conduct include:
- Service life assessment, inspection and reporting for all types of structures.
- Non Destructive Testing (UTT, MPI and DPI),
- Visual, functional, general and close inspections.
- Calibrated bolt torquing to 5000Nm ,
- Axial pull anchor testing and certification to 150kN, rigging proof loading, replacement and certification.
- Mechanical inspection by qualified fitters
- Mobile welding inspection and testing
- Coating thickness and adhesion, porosity testing, holiday / spark testing testing.
- Coating, paint assessments and reporting
- Refractory and vessels assessment:
- Thermography.
- Corrosion survey and mapping
- NDT (UTT, MPI and DPI) with refractory hazard reductions.
- Concrete inspection, assessment and testing
- Concrete core sampling & repairs
- Work at height and rescue equipment inspections testing tagging and certification. Axial anchor testing to 150kN
- Inspection for overhead hazard reductions
- Marine surveys of shipping and associated infrastructure
MAINTENANCE
DBC Group specialise in asset maintenance and engineering activities to assist asset owners in varying industries to maximise their output. Our multi-skilled trades technicians are more than capable of completing strenuous repairs and maintenance activities at height and in confined spaces. Through internal collaboration, we are able undertake the most seemingly risky jobs and produce the most desirable outcome by the trust we inspire in one another. We are comfortable onsite. We know we are in the most capable hands in the industry. We do not sacrifice safety.
This conviction within our team ignites our clients’ confidence in choosing DBC Group as the greatest solution to their problem.
Asset maintenance and engineering tasks we complete:
- Bolt torquing
- Mobile welding
- Maintenance of industrial bins, chutes and silos
- Wear plate replacements
- Coating repairs
- Refractory maintenance
- NDT
- Electrical and sensor installation
- Mechanical installations
- Infrastructure maintenance
- Engineered scaffold platforms and integrated access systems
- Cliff work: devegetation / regeneration / stabilisation
- Environmental and geotechnical works
- Tension netting
- Engineered integrated mobile platforms
INSTALLATIONS
Installations and replacements of all types can be a challenge with any asset. Whether it be at height, in confined space, or requires a complex lifting operation, these works may require significant risk management.
The team at DBC have substantial experience in installing everything from bisalloy wear plates to delicate survey prisms, and lightning protection. This type of work includes long term projects such as replacing industrial scale guttering, roofing, downpipes, and vents. We also install and certify height safety and roof anchor systems.
With less man-risk hours as a result of time-efficient operation and safe work methodology, rope access is often the superior access method for installations of many kinds.
We can provide similar Case Studies for comparison from our 25 year history carrying out installations and replacements at height and in confined spaces.
Lifting and installations the DBC team conduct include:
- Industrial roof replacements and hazard reductions: guttering, downpipe, whirlybirds, etc
- Mechanical installation and replacement, motors, gearboxes, pumps, etc.
- Rigging services, 5T to +65m without using cranes
- Mobile Weld repairs and fitting
- PCCP certified coating remediation/painting and metal spraying services
- Encapsulation, netting and environmental protection
- Industrial insulation and coating replacements
- Geotechnical/ environmental hazard reduction and installations
- Devegetation and weed mesh/new plant installations
- Install and permanent and temporary anchors and rigging and height safety systems
- Provide and install engineered temporary work platforms
- Husik hybrid access systems (platforms, suspended platforms, rigging, rope access)
- Prisms, antenna, Lightning protection (LPS), installed and repaired
- Valve and penstock installations and repairs
- Unique art, signage and media installations at height
- Install height safety systems and rescue equipment.
- Anchor installation testing, tagging and certification. Authorised SafetyLink installer
ASSET
MAINTENANCE
DBC Group specialise in asset maintenance and engineering activities whether it be routine maintenance or unplanned outages, we will get your asset back online.
Rope access is efficient and effective. Our industrious teams arrive on site with multiple skill sets prepared to safely and quickly access the work site and execute the work. We are fit for this purpose and capable of completing exacting repairs and maintenance activities at height and in confined spaces anywhere.
DBC teams undertake high risk work year after year always with safety front of mind. We are access and trade professionals who can produce the required outcome. We are confident onsite. You will witness this. We know we are in the most capable hands. Our own. This will be demonstrated. This conviction within our team ignites our clients’ confidence in choosing DBC Group as their high risk access and maintenance partner.
We can provide Case Studies for comparison from our 25 year history carrying out asset management at height and in confined spaces.
Some examples of asset maintenance and engineering tasks we complete:
- Service life assessment, inspection and reporting for all types of structures
- Mechanical maintenance, motors, gearboxes, pumps, etc,
- Site welding – MMA, MIG and TIG,
- Maintenance, hazard reduction and repairs of industrial bins, chutes and silos
- Wear plate replacements
- PCCP site coating repairs
- Refractory maintenance
- NDT inspections for welds and structures (UTT, MPI, DPI)
- Maintenance of industrial roofs, gutters & downpipes
- Pipe, penstock and valve replacement
- Electrical and sensor installation and replacement
- Calibrated bolt torquing to 5000Nm
- Infrastructure inspection, maintenance and repair at height and in confined spaces
- Heritage structural inspection and maintenance
- Provide engineered mobile scaffold platforms and Husik hybrid integrated access systems for maintenance
- Permanent and Temporary work platforms
- Environmental and geotechnical works: devegetation / regeneration / stabilisation
- Height Safety System and Anchor installation for maintenance
- Installation of permanent roof access systems for maintenance
SHUTDOWNS
DBC has the capability to perform a range of proactive tasks during planned shutdowns including: inspections, access repair, installations, asset maintenance, and many more. As a reliable organisation, we have the ability to respond quickly to unplanned shutdowns and create safe solutions with an adaptable approach. In such circumstances, our team works collaboratively with our clients to integrate various methods of access and provide the best solution.
Our clients understand the many benefits associated with working with DBC Group year after year to complete maintenance work during shutdowns. We accumulate knowledge of your assets. We’re industrious. We’re efficient and understand the nature of a critical path and shutdown deadlines: getting the locks off as scheduled.
DBC shutdown teams arrive fit for the purpose and well resourced in order to complete the work scope to the expected standards. We carry out high risk work safely and professionally year after year. We will work with you to optimise maintenance opportunities during the shutdown, able switch paths and retask to take advantage of the maintenance opportunities with our multi skilled teams and equipment resources. You can reap the maximum benefits from the shutdown window.
We can provide similar Case Studies for comparison from our 25 year history participating in planned and unplanned shutdowns for some of the most challenging sites in the country.
Services during shutdowns include:
- Service life assessment, inspection and reporting for all types of structures
- Refractory maintenance
- hazard reductions and cleaning – from the top down for calciners, chimneys and vessels
- Integration with site services for standby rescue for work at height or confined spaces,
- Integration for hazard reductions from the top down or for within high internal structures
- Installation of overhead protection and rigging
- Provide engineered mobile scaffold platforms and Husik hybrid integrated access systems for maintenance
- Permanent and Temporary work platforms
- Mechanical maintenance for motors, gearboxes, pumps, vessels, valves and penstocks
- Site welding, inspection and repairs – MMA, MIG and TIG,
- Maintenance, hazard reduction and repairs of industrial bins, chutes and silos
- Wear plate replacements
- PCCP site coating repairs
- Blasting surface preparation for organic and metal spray coatings
- Close/general visual inspection and NDT inspection
- NDT inspections for welds and structures (UTT, MPI, DPI)
- Maintenance of industrial roofs, gutters & downpipes
- Electrical and sensor installation and replacement
- Calibrated bolt torquing to 5000Nm
- Infrastructure inspection, maintenance and repair at height and in confined spaces
- Marine inspection, maintenance and repair
- Heritage structural inspection and maintenance
- Environmental and geotechnical works: devegetation / regeneration / stabilisation
- Height Safety System and Anchor installation for maintenance
- Installation of permanent roof access systems for maintenance
RESCUE AND
RETRIEVAL
Safety is the number one priority for DBC everyday. Therefore, managing risks is always at the forefront of our methodology development and project planning. As access professionals, our technicians, procedures, safe work methods, management systems, and equipment resources are all certified compliant to the IRATA ICOP as well as to the International standards for Quality, Safety and Environmental Management.
DBC can provide stand by rescue, escort and independent retrieval capability for your project.
Rescue and retrieval tasks completed by DBC include:
- Standby rescue and retrieval
- Close escort of engineers or specialists to a remote worksite
- Installation of temporary or permanent height safety systems
- Supply and installation of Safetylink height access systems
We can provide similar Case Studies for comparison from our 25 year history carrying out standby rescue, retrieval and close escort services.
EQUIPMENT
We rely on DBC’s own rope access, rigging equipment resources, comprehensive tools store, and fleet of trucks and vehicles for all of our projects. We have access to our own specialised rigging equipment and can also work with external specialist providers for unique lifting projects.
Due to this we remove uncertainty or guesswork associated with getting to know the ins and outs of hired plant and equipment. By sourcing the highest quality of industrial access and rigging equipment from globally recognised suppliers we instil confidence within our team and for our clients, knowing we don’t settle for anything but the best.
Routine, thorough equipment and vehicle inspection and service, inventory management RFID systems, equipment risk assessments, and compiled foreseeable misuse information mean our equipment and vehicles are always fit for purpose. We are prepared and ready for urgent outages where time is of the essence.
DBC has a dedicated warehouse supervisor and warehouse assistants whose work it is to ensure that our operations are appropriately supported with the best quality equipment and vehicle resources. Their work underpins the readiness for which we are renowned.
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