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With more than 12,000 highrise buildings, and growing building development inOntario, there is no specially trained urban highrise rope rescue team to respond efficiently to emergencies in inaccessible places. Events, such as the Skyway Bridge in St. Catherines in 1993 and other rope access related incidents have shown that lives could have been saved if such a team existed.
With an industry, being ranked as one of the most dangerous, Ivan Kristoff, CEO of Eiger Rope Access Work Inc., wants to give workers a safer future. He found the Eiger Highrise Emergency Aerial Response Team (HEART), an independent non-profit organization that consists solely of highly qualified professionals.
Eiger HEART To The Rescue.
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Our purpose is to minimize loss of life, injury, property damage, risk to the highrise environment and maximize the rescue efficiency through innovation.Our focus is to enhance public safety through rescue and safety education, provide emergency response and assist in providing post-accident reports (with laptops, digital cameras and communications systems on-site) in inaccessible places.
The Eiger HEART has the skills necessary for high-angle and highrise rope rescue operations. Beyond that, the Eiger members strive to develop technically innovative concepts and advanced skills in the use of high-tech equipment and communications.
Eiger is about people helping people. We relish being in extreme situations and seek every opportunity to exercise our skills.
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