Hidden Risks in Rope Access Jobs That Won’t Show Until the Audit
In rope access, the actual rigging and execution usually go fine. Your Level 3 knows what they’re doing. Your team’s experienced. Falls are rare, injuries rarer. But that’s not what shuts you down during an audit. It’s the missing equipment log. The anchor with no test date. The expired First Aid cert that slipped through because someone was tracking it on a whiteboard. The SWMS that’s a copy-paste job from 2019 and doesn’t reflect the new AS/NZS 1891.4:2025 requirements around diversion angles. These are administrative gaps that compound silently until an external review exposes them all at once. The consequences










