Lyon PPE Training

Whilst I was in the Lakes for an AMI committee meeting I had the chance to take part in a training day run by Lyon Equipment for AMI members.  The day looked at PPE inspection and maintenance highlights and moved onto equipment use Sports vs. Industrial in areas such as route setting on climbing walls and setting up tensioned lines (eg. Tyroleans and Zip wires).

MMM gear heaven!

 

Looking at Industrial equivalents of Sport set ups.

Within these topics there was a host of information on offer and it was all rounded off niceley by the chance to break some gear.  Items destroyed included various scenarios (cross loading, gate open etc.) with good kit and failure tests with old used and abused kit (providing some interesting results for some).

Breaking kit is always fun (as long as its not in use)!

A great day with loads of information for us to take away and digest.