Platform work, the tickets, top-end pay and rotational admin.
Offshore is the top end of rope access. Inspection, maintenance and fabric work on platforms, rigs and structures in the North Sea and beyond, where rope access saves the cost and downtime of scaffolding a live installation. It pays the most, asks the most in tickets, and comes on rotation.
A mix of NDT and inspection, fabric maintenance such as blasting and painting, and structural jobs, on platforms, rigs and FPSOs. The environment is the hard part: weather, distance, and working on a live installation, which is exactly why the safety bar and the pay are both high.
The biggest ticket stack in the trade. IRATA for the rope access, offshore survival and safety training, usually BOSIET and MIST, and a valid offshore medical. Inspection work adds NDT certification on top of that. Every one of them has to be current before you fly, or you do not go.
Offshore sits at the top of rope access day rates, with rotation and location premiums on top. It is the best-paid rope access work in the UK, and the ticket, travel and time-away demands are the trade-off for it.
Offshore admin is lumpy and high-stakes: income in bursts between trips, a stack of tickets that all have to be in date, and construction-linked work that can bring CIS into play. Cowstail keeps every offshore ticket in one place with expiry reminders and lets you invoice from the rig or the beach, so nothing waits until you are home. See Cowstail for techs.
IRATA for the rope access plus offshore survival and safety training, usually BOSIET and MIST, and a valid offshore medical. Inspection work often adds NDT certification on top. It is the heaviest ticket stack in the trade.
Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training, the OPITO offshore survival course covering sea survival, helicopter escape and firefighting. Most North Sea work requires it, kept current alongside MIST and your medical.
Generally yes. Offshore sits at the top end of rope access day rates, with rotation and location premiums on top, which is why the ticket and travel demands are higher too.
Income comes in bursts between trips, so you invoice in batches, and every offshore ticket must be current before you fly. Track each expiry and invoice from wherever you are rather than waiting until you are back onshore.
Free for solo rope access techs. No card required.