The company has a training policy in place, to train local tradesmen wherever we are working.

Access

Barrier also provide access equipment, including ‘Alimaks’ and mobile lifts. The lifts are used where local work to eg an onshore fabrication is required, but a full scaffold would be slow and expensive.

Containment

For environmental reasons it is often necessary to totally encapsulate a structure. Barrier has successfully worked in the most difficult situations. Working on nuclear submarines is demanding but has been most successful.

Similarly, working in northern Norway at -32 c painting oil storage tanks required a specialist sheeting system to maintain an environment suitable for painting.

Cradles

We use cradles where a full scaffold would be prohibitively expensive. These have been most cost-effective on large tanks where traditional scaffold is too slow and expensive. A good example was our coating of a nuclear test plant at Grenoble in France.

Mobile Access

The company also has its own mobile access platforms for work to ships’ hulls etc.