Can ltd

Originally founded nearly 20 years ago, the CAN Group now provides an integrated range of Inspection, Repair and Maintenance services to the oil, construction, civil engineering, energy, marine and structural maintenance industries onshore and offshore worldwide. We have worked in over 40 countries to date and currently have a modern support bases at eleven main locations: Aberdeen, Chesterfield, London, UK; Stavanger, Norway; Abu Dhabi, UAE; New Orleans and Houston, USA; Baku, Azerbaijan; Aksai, Kazakhstan; Lagos and Port Harcourt, Nigeria. From these we provide a complementary range of skills and equipment that now covers inspection, non-destructive testing, trade work and geotechnics - all with or without rope access - plus engineering and project management services.

CAN's culture has always been one of efficency, quality, safety, flexability, innovation and client service. Accreditations and approvals held by various companies in the Group include ISO 9001:2000, ISO/IEC 17020 (EN 45004), Lloyds Register, Det Norske Veritas, the American Bureau of Shipping, Germanischer Lloyd and I.R.A.T.A which demonstrates our commitment to providing clients with top-class, cost-effective results. CAN is a registered supplier with First Point Assessment Limited, Supplier No. 10040888.

Rope Access and its benefits

Access provision can be a significant proportion of any project's costs. Rope Access techniques can replace traditional solutions and offer clients significant savings.


Single point of contact for the client - as CAN provide both access and contracting. A single source reduces costs, provides easier site co-ordination and controls costs.


Rope systems are quick to install and dismantle. By removing operational and time constraints, rope access services are often able to extend the 'time window' available to undertake work.


Rope access offers better flexibility for rescheduling thereby exploiting favourable weather conditions.


The use of rope access may obviate the need for track possessions or road closures. This can generate large cost savings.







Rope access is statistically safer than scaffolding and uses fewer men. Ropes can be removed from site at the end of each shift - this is a particular benefit for works on, for example, high rise buildings and sports stadia where there is the potential for vandalism.


The versatility of rope access services permits a more flexible and comprehensive 'point and shoot' service on, for example, inspection programmes. The Inspection Manager is no longer constrained to areas that can be easily reached by conventional means.


Rope systems are unobtrusive. This is a benefit for clients who own historic properties and wish to retain the visual integrity of the structure during inspection or maintenance works.


By minimising disruption at ground level, rope access often allows other trades to continue working when compared with the disruption caused by scaffolding.


By avoiding loading a project with high initial costs, rope access may allow work to proceed earlier thereby minimising structural damage

Rock Netting

Unlike permanent anchorages, many solutions provided by CAN are non-structural. They aim purely at increasing the safety of a site.

In 1997 CAN installed over 75,000 m of Maccaferri rockfall prevention netting. Maccaferri netting is a double twisted hexagonal mesh. The double twisted joints of the wires prevent the mesh unravelling if one strand is broken. The netting is galvanised and then coated in plastic to give a double corrosion-protection.

On uniform vertical faces CAN installs a tensioned steel cable at the crest of the face. The netting is attached to the cable and then draped over the rock face. In most cases 10% extra material has to be allowed for overlapping.

The mesh is also fixed to a second cable at the toe of the slope. This second cable would typically incorporate a turnbuckle which allows the cable to be 'slackened-off' and any debris removed....set out above is just a fraction of the services, we have to offer, for more in-depth information, please visit our website, or call on 01246 261111.