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High Q and staff would like to wish all our customers (old and new) a happy and healthy Christmas and New Year. David, Karl, Badger, Denis, Sebz and Dai.

Thankfully, things seem to be getting back to normal here in Australia. We realise that many of our customers have been stood down during the COVID restrictions, and we’d like to help get everyone ready for the return to work. We are waiving our usual fee for 1/2 day and full day refresher training, and will be offering regular refresher sessions for the next few weeks in order that you can be work ready and up to speed….. Working on ropes requires that you be confident about the selection and use of the equipment – the top of a 20...

  The High Q group of companies have approved IRATA training facilities in Australia, the UK and Japan. The COVID pandemic is likely to significantly disrupt our lives for several months, and I wanted to share some of the different experiences we’re facing around the globe, and the different government advice and conditions that we must meet. Japan were one of the earliest countries to be affected, but they were very quick to advise the population to practice social distancing. Asia has previous experience with dealing with viruses such as SARS, and this experience together with a high level of...

The COVID pandemic has left us all facing a fast moving, ever changing situation. From 14 day lock downs to Keep Calm and Carry On, it seems that even national governments can’t agree on what should be the response. We at High Q are using the World Health Organisation advice as our starting point to minimise the risk to our candidates and training staff. To that end, here’s what we’ve done, and are now doing: All software (harnesse and, cowstails) are laundered after every course, and helmets soaked in dilute disinfectant. In addition we have now deep cleaned all hardware...