This Guide provides practical guidance to assist duty holders, primarily PCBUs, to manage risks to health and safety associated with using an industrial rope access system.

You have duties if you:

- engage workers, or cause workers to be engaged, to use an industrial rope access system
- influence or direct workers in use of an industrial rope access system, or
- have management or control of a workplace, or the fixtures, fittings or plant at a workplace, where an industrial rope access system is used.

Duty holders include industrial rope access service providers, building managers, building owners, building body corporates, principal contractors, and other PCBUs at a workplace where an industrial rope access system is used.

This Guide may also assist workers, health and safety representatives, and others in the workplace who may be impacted by the use of an industrial rope access system.

The Guide applies to any workplace where an industrial rope access system is used, including in and around buildings and structures, as well as on or around trees and other natural features. For more information about using rope access systems in arboriculture, see the Guide for managing risks of tree trimming and removal work.