Our Approach to Height Safety
Many commercial buildings contain roofs, facades, equipment, services, and elevated assets that require ongoing inspection, maintenance, and repair. Safe access plays an important role in how these activities are planned and delivered, helping maintenance teams reach the areas they need to access while supporting the ongoing management of your asset.
Our approach focuses on understanding how your elevated assets need to be accessed, inspected, and maintained before recommending practical height safety and access solutions that align with your building's long-term maintenance requirements.
Access Strategy & Planning
Not all access challenges are the same. The way your elevated assets are inspected, maintained, repaired, or serviced can influence the most appropriate access methodology. We assess how access requirements fit within your ongoing maintenance activities and recommend practical solutions that support the safe management of your building over time.
Height Safety Systems
Where regular access is required, permanent height safety systems can help create safer and more practical pathways for inspections, servicing, and maintenance works. Systems such as lifelines, anchor points, walkways, ladders, and guardrails can support ongoing access requirements while helping maintenance activities be carried out safely across your building. We assess, install and certify height access systems to ensure you are able to access your asset easily.
Specialist Access & Maintenance
Some elevated assets are difficult to access using traditional methods. Building facades, complex roof layouts, and hard-to-reach structures may require specialist access techniques, including abseil access, to safely complete inspections, repairs, painting, maintenance, and remedial works. We assess both the access requirements and the maintenance objectives of your project to determine the most practical methodology for completing the work. By combining specialist access capability with practical trade expertise, maintenance activities can often be carried out safely and efficiently in locations that would otherwise present significant access challenges.
Wondering if your asset needs safer access?
Check out some common signs to look out for below.
Recent Roofing Projects
WATERPROOFING
Safe, Practical Delivery
Many waterproofing projects take place on live commercial sites where access, safety and coordination are critical. APS combines experienced tradespeople, detailed planning and strong Health & Safety systems to deliver waterproofing works safely and efficiently, including projects requiring height access, staged works or complex site logistics.
We work with a range of waterproofing systems depending on the building type, substrate and environmental exposure. This includes membrane recoating, remedial waterproofing repairs, deck and balcony waterproofing, roof membrane replacement and preventative maintenance solutions designed to extend the life of existing systems.
Waterproofing Systems and types
Leak Detection & Assessments
Not all leaks are straightforward. Water can travel through cavities, membranes and building materials before becoming visible internally. Our team carries out detailed waterproofing investigations to identify likely failure points, assess existing systems and recommend practical repair or replacement options based on the condition of the building.
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Access-Driven Costs
Access requirements are becoming a significant factor in the planning, coordination, and overall cost of maintenance activities.
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Areas Going Uninspected
Some elevated areas of your building are difficult to safely access, limiting visibility of their condition and ongoing maintenance requirements.
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Repeated Temporary Access
The same temporary access solutions are being used repeatedly to support ongoing inspections, servicing, and maintenance activities.
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Maintenance Delays
Routine maintenance activities are requiring additional planning, coordination, and access arrangements before work can begin.
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Access Concerns Raised
Contractors are regularly identifying access challenges that can impact how inspections, maintenance, and repair works are planned and delivered.
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Difficult-To-Service Equipment
Rooftop equipment often requires ongoing inspection and servicing, but access challenges can make routine maintenance more difficult to coordinate.
The process behind the project
Safe access starts with understanding both the asset and the work being undertaken. Our process helps ensure access requirements are considered alongside the ongoing maintenance needs of your building.
Understand
Every building is different. We start by understanding your asset, the work being undertaken, and the access challenges involved before determining the most practical way forward.
Assess
We assess how your elevated assets need to be accessed, inspected, maintained, or repaired, along with any site-specific considerations that may influence the approach.
Recommend
Based on your requirements, we recommend practical height safety systems, specialist access methodologies, or maintenance approaches that align with your building and maintenance objectives.
Deliver
Whether the project involves system installation, certification, specialist access, inspections, maintenance, or remedial works, the agreed solution is delivered safely and efficiently.
Verify
Completed systems and access solutions are inspected, documented, and certified and re-certified where required to support their ongoing use and management.
Height Safety Projects We Deliver
How do you choose the right access approach for your building?
Height Safety Assessments & Compliance Reviews
Understanding your obligations is often the first step in determining what height safety systems are required for your building.
✓ Height safety assessments
✓ Compliance reviews
✓ Asset inspections
Understand
Fall Arrest & Anchor Systems
Some assets present unique access challenges that cannot be practically addressed using traditional access methods. Rope access techniques provide a safe and efficient solution for inspection, maintenance, installation, and remediation activities in difficult-to-reach environments.
✓ Roof anchors and fall arrest systems
✓ Horizontal lifelines
✓ Certified anchor systems
Understand
Rope Access & Abseil Solutions
Some assets present unique access challenges that cannot be practically addressed using traditional access methods. Rope access techniques provide a safe and efficient solution for inspection, maintenance, installation, and remediation activities in difficult-to-reach environments.
✓ Rope access inspections
✓ Abseil maintenance works
✓ High-rise access solutions
Understand
Walkways & Platforms
Walkways and platforms help define safe access routes while protecting roofing systems and improving access to plant and equipment.
✓ Roof walkways
✓ Access platforms
✓ Defined maintenance routes
Understand
Guardrails & Edge Protection
Collective protection systems help reduce fall risks by providing physical barriers around roof edges and elevated work areas.
✓ Roof guardrails
✓ Edge protection systems
✓ Collective fall protection
Understand
Fixed Ladders
Fixed ladder systems provide safe and permanent access to roofs, plant platforms, and elevated service areas.
✓ Fixed access ladders
✓ Ladder upgrades
✓ Permanent access solutions
Understand
Design & Install Height Safety Systems
Every building presents different access requirements, maintenance activities, and risk profiles. We assess how your asset is used and develop practical height safety solutions that support safe access, ongoing maintenance, and long-term compliance.
✓ Height safety system design
✓ New system installations
✓ Asset-specific solutions
Understand
Height Safety Remediation & Upgrades
Existing systems may require remediation, upgrades, or replacement as standards change and assets evolve over time.
✓ System upgrades
✓ Compliance remediation
✓ Asset improvements
Understand
Inspection, Testing & Certification
Regular inspection and certification helps ensure height safety systems remain compliant and suitable for ongoing use.
✓ Annual inspections
✓ System certification
✓ Compliance reporting
