What can industrial climbers do and which company to contact? How the profession works: industrial climber

What services are provided by industrial climbers, everyone or almost everyone knows. The place of work of these specialists is height. Often they work in very dangerous conditions. Usually, but not always, they are required on building structures.
A climber often works in an unsupported space, his working equipment is only a rope and various climbing equipment. They do not use any cradles and scaffolding in their work.

Everything about industrial mountaineering on the site alpinistsmirnov.ru

On the site alpinistsmirnov.ru you can find everything about the company, which specializes in industrial mountaineering. Among their services there are also electrical work (including the installation and installation of light garlands) in dangerous conditions, at height.

They also perform facade work, install lifts, help if the door is slammed, repair and dismantle pipes, help even if your cat is in a tree and you don’t know how to get it out of there without risk to yourself and the cat.
It is even possible with the help of industrial climbers to present a gift to your beloved in the most unusual way. Either you yourself with insurance will go down to her window, or an industrial climber will do it and present a gift on your behalf.
Of course, this is not all the services that this company can provide.

Vershinin I.Yu. technical

director of the training center "ProfService".

"Industrial mountaineering is a special technology
high-altitude work in industrial and
other objects at which the workplace is reached
by ascending or descending a rope, or
using other climbing methods
travel and insurance...

Martynov A.I. Promalp (industrial mountaineering)

This profession has been on the labor market for a long time. Some sources refer to the 1930s, others date its origin to the 1960s. The profession began to develop more intensively since the 1990s, when new market relations, new business directions, new technologies in the construction and repair of buildings and structures began to appear.
Industrial climbers earn their bread by using only ropes and climbing equipment, they perform work of any degree of complexity that cannot be done using traditional methods of building technology.
The customer does not need expensive rental and installation of scaffolding, the use of construction mechanisms, aerial platforms, and, moreover, you can not stop production. There are clear cost savings. Naturally, the work of steeplejacks is paid quite high, but in any case it costs the customer less than renting sophisticated equipment.
There are not so many climbers as such in the promalp. You don't have to be a mountaineer to work in a promalp. Some started right away with training in brigades, others came from tourist clubs, speleological sections. There are very few training centers in Russia that train climbers, and not all of them are qualified and have a license for this type of activity.
But mastering climbing technologies is not enough to become an industrial climber. This job requires a combination of many professions: an installer, a painter, an electrician, etc. In addition, other knowledge is also important: how not to freeze in winter, how to communicate with a client, how to organize the work of a team. To be able to professionally perform work at height and to be able to “work with ropes” are two colossal differences. In industrial climbing, money is not paid for the fact that people "hang" on the ropes, but for doing the necessary work.
As a rule, industrial climbers do not have documents confirming that they have been trained in their specialty, and the specialty "Industrial climber" itself is 5-7 categories (Decree of the Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation of May 17, 2001 for N 40 "On the introduction of an amendment to the Unified tariff and qualification reference book of jobs and professions of workers" supplemented the section of professions with the specialty "Industrial climber 5,6 and 7 categories") appeared in May 2001, and it is not entirely clear why immediately from the 5th category?
Industrial mountaineering as a market is a young, emerging phenomenon for the country, from an economic point of view, it is going through a period of formation. At the moment, the industry is gray and poorly controlled - it is poorly regulated by law, which gives rise to a lot of problems that hinder its development, for example, unskilled personnel, lack of regulatory documents, rules for the protection of labor of industrial climbers. One of the most basic problems today in industrial mountaineering is the level of training and issues of safety and labor protection.
Work at height in difficult weather conditions (heat, cold, wind, rain, mud, etc.), constant stress and control over the safety of one’s own and colleagues, great physical exertion, limited opportunities when performing work, take a lot of strength from industrial climbers as physical as well as psychological.
Promalp is:
- work with a high degree of danger;
- severe physical activity;
- large loads on the human psyche;
- the need for psychological preparation;
- the ability to provide first aid, the ability to carry out rescue work (evacuation of the victim from a height).
An industrial climber must know the basic design features of objects and the technology of work performed; practical application (up to automatism) of industrial mountaineering techniques and safety rules at high-rise objects; rules for the use of ropes, cables and other climbing equipment; test rules and norms for the use of climbing equipment; principles of operation of manual and mechanical winches, etc., etc.
Based on the experience of training in our center (and we cooperate with many enterprises of the Republic of Bashkortostan and Russia), I can say that people already working in this direction and who come to us to take exams externally, mostly master the elementary technique of rappelling, and with great safety violations. Workers often do not know the simplest rules for working with equipment, not to mention rescue techniques and behavior in emergency situations. When you offer such “specialists” training, you hear an indignant response: “Yes, I have been working for so many years, what am I learning?!”. After a little practical training at our training ground, we usually manage to convince them otherwise. Passing an external exam and obtaining a certificate that allows you to work as a climber using the methods of industrial mountaineering, usually three to four out of a hundred people succeed. There are very few corresponding category "Industrial climber of the 5th category" in our republic, because the requirements for this specialty are high. There are no lower grades. But we also have training centers that train people for the 5th category in 72 hours, as they say, “from scratch” and certify them regardless of their knowledge. But a 5th grade industrial climber must be able to provide avalanche and rockfall safety in the mountains, work on mountainous terrain, ensure joint work with helicopters, and much more. And that's all for the 72 hour curriculum?
Many industrial enterprises that train their employees in our center cannot decide in the future which category they belong to. Indeed, today the only official document is the “Intersectoral rules for labor protection when working at height”, which establish a unified procedure for carrying out all types of work at height, the organization of the safety of the workers themselves and persons located in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthis work. These rules do not say anything about industrial mountaineering.
There are also "Temporary safety rules in industrial mountaineering", approved at a meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission for the certification of emergency rescue teams, rescuers and educational institutions for their training. In general, the Rules contain a lot of useful things, but also a lot of incomprehensible ones. For example, let's take the section of article 1.2 paragraph 12: "... Control over compliance with these Rules and other guidelines on labor safety in industrial mountaineering is carried out by the Gosgortekhnadzor of Russia .." (?). And many more obscure references and contradictions.
All this confusion in industrial mountaineering is due to the fact that today there are no official regulatory documents, with the exception of the Resolution on the introduction of the specialty "Industrial climber of the 5-7th category."
There are still a lot of unresolved problems in this rapidly developing industry. And I would like them to be solved much faster, especially since we are not alone in the world of the development of industrial mountaineering. In countries with developed economies, these problems are being successfully solved, International Federations are being created, the purpose of which, first of all, is to ensure the safety of industrial climbers. The ISO 22846-1.2 standard has been developed and is being implemented. This standard contains detailed guidelines for climbing techniques using rope technology and will be mandatory for use in countries that have adopted the ISO standard.
There are still a lot of questions, it is impossible to reflect everything in one article. We are planning a series of articles on industrial mountaineering, where we will offer our own ways to solve problems. We are going to regularly cover the experience of foreign countries, the history of the development of industrial alpinism in Belarus and Russia; new technologies and modern techniques for working with equipment.

They say that you can get used to the height, and working under gusts of wind a few tens of meters above the ground is just working conditions. And yet the profession of "industrial climber" is an adrenaline rush. And it doesn't suit everyone.

Bohdan Lutsyuk,
industrial climber, work experience - 10 years

I got into industrial mountaineering by chance. He studied at the university as an IT specialist, and as a student he came to the climbing wall. Artificial peaks were not immediately conquered, but the process “hooked” me. Gradually, I got into a circle of people who not only had fun in their free time at the climbing wall, but also earned money by working at height: washing windows and facades, installing air conditioners, minor repairs, cutting down tall trees and even evacuating cats ...
High-altitude workers are called to places where, for various reasons, it is impossible or completely unprofitable to set up scaffolding or adjust high-altitude equipment.

Constant training at the climbing wall was not in vain for me, and after a while I began to receive offers from friends to earn extra money. The document for work, confirming the qualifications of a climber, is required so far only one - a certificate of an industrial climber. I know that most climbers receive this document at the UKCOM training center, and I have the same. So the hobby turned into a profession, I became an industrial climber.

How to get into the profession

The community of industrial climbers is quite small, almost everyone knows each other. Beginners, like me in my time, get into the profession by acquaintance. Not because this is some kind of elite employment, but because usually everything starts with a passion for mountaineering: someone trains at climbing walls, someone in the mountains. Probably, the feeling of height becomes a need, it draws you in, and you want your work to coincide with your hobby.

Many try to "come to high-altitude work from high-altitude sports." Such people are characterized by weak construction skills and are not able to fully identify the problem in the working area. In Moscow, they really train at the Professional Training Center. (Training period - from two weeks. Cost from 13,000 rubles).

The main problem is the huge number of those who bought certificates for 5000-6000 rubles, who do not give a damn about safety, equipment and are prone to risk in pursuit of what they think is “easy money”. All that such people eventually find is problems for the employer, customer, law enforcement agencies and an unhindered path to another world. The climber makes a mistake once.

In our company, I recruit people over the age of 35 who have a construction qualification, have been trained and are not inclined to risk, since I am personally responsible for the safety of each member of the team.

Almost anyone can become an industrial climber. Of the restrictions on health, perhaps, only problems with the heart and head - both in the sense of healthy blood vessels, and in the sense of a normal psyche. The profession requires good physical preparation. There are no age restrictions. I've met industrial climbers over 50, it's all about how you feel.

Often industrial climbers go in for sports, strength and endurance are needed in our business. I do yoga, but more for the soul. There is plenty of physical activity at work. It just seems like you're not stressing. The work can be very difficult, stressful and always requires the utmost care and accuracy.

Altitude Rules
Altitude workers do not work alone - this is dangerous and is not allowed by the rules for working at height.

A law-abiding employer will not allow you to work without an annual recertification and with worn out or uncertified equipment.

Equipment and tools must be the best in their line, with a maximum service life.

A high-altitude climber needs to always be in excellent sports shape and extremely hardy, otherwise he will not pay off even a meter of a good rope with his work.

The climber must be able to recognize sudden changes in weather conditions.

Each high-altitude worker is required to have a first aid kit with him for first aid and the skill of evacuating a comrade from the working area, which not every rescuer, and even more so an ambulance, can reach.

Once I had an urgent night call. The wind ripped off the banner from the wall of the house, a heavy canvas with an area of ​​​​several square meters dangled and could break the windows of the residents. I secured myself, descended to the desired height and felt how the gusts of wind carried me from the wall by 2-3 meters. It was difficult to resist and unfasten the banner so that it did not end up breaking the windows. I dismantled the banner, not ideally, long enough for normal dismantling, but in those conditions as carefully as possible. This is one of the most dangerous challenges of my career.

Everything starts from the roof

We are looking for places for fixing on the roof: it can be an antenna, special beams for climbers. Rarely are there completely “bare” roofs, then we are attached to the fences. It is better not to one, but to several at once.

The safety of an industrial climber depends only on his attentiveness. Each knot on the equipment is better to check twice.

Work on faulty building cradles.

Working with a ladder.

Rescuing a cat from a tree.

Arborist work (tree care work).

Roof cleaning from snow and icicles.

Work in the areas of welding.

Every high-altitude climber must remember that there may be a person with deviant behavior in the building who is ready to cut his ropes. To prevent this, our company will consult with the district police officer about the nature of the residents at the work site before starting work.

Often grandmothers and people in a state of alcoholic or drug intoxication mistake high-altitude thieves for window guards.

Vladimir Shirshov, General Director of Vysotnik

We know better than the construction commission about the real state of Moscow buildings. Sometimes you have to work in emergency houses: you start to go down the wall, and a brick flies out from under your foot. In new buildings, it happens that the stucco falls off. We almost always feel violations of building codes. Climbers do not insure life and health, although, it would seem, given the risks of the profession, this is logical.

Dress code for an industrial climber

We buy all work equipment ourselves. Safety system, seat, descender, clamps, carabiners, ropes, special gloves for working with a rope ... You can buy a ready-made kit for 20,000-30,000 rubles. or even cheaper, or you can gradually assemble the equipment “for yourself”. More expensive, of course, but it's not a one-time waste. And it's definitely not worth saving on security.

An industrial climber may work for a company or for himself. In the first case, you can count on a salary of about 60,000 rubles. Often, interest rates for night work, work in hazardous conditions and work in winter are added to the difficulty coefficients for work at height. This increases earnings, from 3500 to 6000, sometimes 7000 rubles. for a work shift. But a "free shooter" can earn twice as much. No company will pay that much.

I work as a freelancer - this gives me the opportunity to determine the degree of loading myself, and sometimes dictate my terms to the customer. Sometimes the work is dreary and not very interesting, but not difficult - you can do it alone. And some tasks require a team of climbers, and it is important to explain to the employer why one person is not enough. Over the years of work, both business reputation and connections have already appeared, so there are no problems with orders. Although, of course, the crisis is felt. It's better for newcomers to work for someone now.

There is no special dependence on the season for industrial climbers. We work all year round. In winter, orders are slightly less.

Interviewed by Mila Kretova

If you are thinking about organizing your own business and have chosen the direction of industrial mountaineering for this, but do not dare to start a business because of the fear of heights, do not rush to panic. As the owner of the company, you should not climb buildings at all - this can be done by specially trained people who will be under your command. Such professionals are usually equipped with all the necessary equipment for the job. You just have to look for customers who need the services of climbers.

High-altitude workers need to be selected skillfully. First, you must demand from them evidence of their skills. Usually this is a certificate that is issued after graduation.

Entrepreneurial idea will start to give a profit in excess of cost coverage in a year, in some cases - in two. According to statistics, the benefit from the provision of industrial mountaineering services is 15-25% annually.

In order to receive clients and maintain documentation, you will need an office space. A small office will suffice. Naturally, the ideal option would be to rent a department in a business center, since customers from other companies are constantly spinning here, who could pay attention to your company.

But if you are located in the heart of the city, choosing a crowded pedestrian street, but there is a canteen or a key-making kiosk next to your organization, do not expect success. It has been proven that objects that are completely unsuitable for each other, located on the same territory, repel themselves without attracting potential buyers.

Those who believe that it is high time for industrial climbers to work only in hot summers are mistaken, and in cold weather they have absolutely nothing to do, except to knock down the overgrown pieces of ice under the roofs of houses. In fact, such ridiculous opinions contradict the facts. In fact, specialists climbing skyscrapers are well supplied with orders even in winter. Previously, climbers only had to plaster the walls to order. There were those who carried out such work in the cold, and it was not only unprofitable, but simply ridiculous. Now the activities of high-altitude workers have become more diverse, more and more services are provided on the market. So, for example, all kinds of construction and installation work are carried out by industrial climbers. In addition, the cladding of buildings is in active demand. It is stronger than finishing plaster, has better insulating properties, and can be worked with even at harsh temperatures. Walls covered with such material will retain their original features for twenty-five long years, that's a quarter of a century, if you think about it! Durable and resistant to burning frosts, the layers are represented by a wide range: ceramic granite, profiled flooring and other types of finishing elements that have become an excellent substitute for plaster.

In the event that you liked the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bcladding, first of all you will need to purchase all the required installations and apparatus for doing this business and supply your industrial climbers with them. Personnel, of course, must have professional knowledge in this area. Otherwise, you should conduct training courses for workers on how to use the equipment and the intricacies of installing cladding tiles.

After the staff is formed, start looking for a construction company that suits you. With such a company, it will be necessary to draw up a contractual relationship regarding cladding. It is most rational to dwell on those objects that have not yet been rebuilt, but are only being designed or even in the plans of the company. Companies ready to take on future projects are all around, so you will most likely be able to conclude a contract on favorable terms. If you persistently offer your services to the heads of construction companies who have already completed the construction work, but have not yet lined the walls, the likelihood of your success will be extremely small. The fact is that in these situations, specialists in covering houses with slabs are not expected for a long time - there are a lot of them, and most manage to enter into cooperation with builders in advance, while the project is being developed. Thus, if you do not want to be left out of work, agree on future work as early as possible. In a good deal, you will be offered the cladding of a new house, which will take a considerable amount of time - perhaps a whole year, and maybe more. Upon completion of the process, the work will be evaluated. If the management of the company likes it, you will probably be provided with new workloads. Cooperation can stretch for long periods, and this is only to your advantage.

Of course, not everyone is a workaholic. In addition to inveterate workers who are ready to climb to heights all year round in order to earn good money, or even just for the soul, there are also those who like to combine good work with good rest, and best of all, abroad. For such climbers, the seasonal work option is suitable. For example, having invested all your efforts and diligence in the repair or construction of facilities on warm summer days, the rest of the time (winter, autumn and spring) you can enjoy relaxing by going on a tour or doing your favorite things. Fortunately, the hard-earned money should be enough for such a long “break from production”. By the way, companies and individual entrepreneurs working under this system are now a dime a dozen. And almost all of them quickly gained recognition among consumers. All the cold seasons of the year are looking forward to them, and when they finally go to work, such businessmen are torn with arms and legs. The level of profit of the cunning is obvious.

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The following types of work are considered seasonal labor activities of industrial climbers:

- periodic work to rescue animals or people from heights, for example, removing a cat from a tree;

– window glass cleaning services, for example, in large business centers;

— cutting crowns of trees in parks and gardens;

- laying insulating materials on the outer walls of buildings;

- installation of various structures;

- equipping buildings with household air conditioners.

Industrial climbers are not "crackers" who can only handle steel equipment and ropes. Many professionals in their field enjoy participating in entertainment events organized by companies. Holidays, corporate celebrations of the company are celebrated in different ways. Some are strict and minimal, and some prefer to make such a day memorable and interesting. For example, a birthday boy receives a bouquet of roses from the hands of a "super hero" who suddenly appeared outside the office window. For such purposes, climbers are invited, since they can fulfill the order skillfully, efficiently, and with safety for their own lives.

So, the choice is yours. But be aware: starting your own industrial climbing services business will cost you initial fees anyway. At least for the purchase of climbing suits. The cost of one set is approximately 10,000 Russian rubles.

Industrial mountaineering is a modern profession, which is difficult to do without in the face of an increase in the number of high-rise objects. Enterprises have pipes several meters high that need to be painted, the facades of business centers require renovation, window washing, and sometimes advertising needs to be installed. Developers are trying to build skyscrapers not only to make their building the most remarkable, but also because of the huge cost of each square meter of land in large cities. Therefore, all hotel and shopping complexes, new buildings for housing will need to be serviced by someone, industrial climbers will cope with work at height.

What is the profession of an industrial climber

This profession is relevant and well paid. It is quite complicated and requires high-altitude workers to strictly observe safety rules. Industrial climbers are engaged in painting, plastering, repairing facades and roofs, thermal insulation, installing advertising sites, and washing windows. The profession is somewhat similar to an acrobat in a circus, only at the same time certain works are still performed that have their own technology. A person from the age of 18 can work as an industrial climber, who has undergone certain training, a medical examination, and has also received a safety briefing, having more than 1 year of work experience. In order to gain the necessary experience, a novice high-altitude climber is assigned to a more experienced industrial climber, who teaches him the intricacies of the profession for a year.

Security and risks

Since the work is very dangerous, associated with height, there are some regulatory requirements for safety. First of all, this applies to equipment, it must be of high quality, checked every day before work. Mostly artificial belts and cables are used, which are not subject to rotting or damage by rodents.

The risks are also related to the fact that it is not always possible to accurately check how strong safety belts and carabiners will be, therefore they are bought from trusted manufacturers. Climbing to a height begins only after the work permit is signed. The management of the enterprise where industrial climbers work is directly responsible for safety at work, but it is also worth personally checking the suitability of the equipment for work, paying attention to your own well-being. There is a list of climatic factors in which work at height is prohibited - these are precipitation, strong wind, fog.

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