Empower Adventures on The Importance of Zipline Maintenance
If you’re booking your first trip to Empower Adventures, or you’ve been a few times and consider yourself a veteran, you might not have thought about what it takes to keep a zipline in good condition. Beyond education, instructions and common sense, maintenance is incredibly important for making sure tree top adventures are always secure. Empower Adventures offers some of the different types of maintenance zipline providers use to keep things working the way they should.
Inspections
An ongoing, reliable form of maintenance for anything that involves machinery or complicated equipment is inspection. How often and how detailed an inspection is down to the owners of the zipline. Inspections are most frequently done:
On a Per-Ride Basis
Checking everything is as it should be after every use. This is typically done at smaller ziplines.
Per-Session Basis
A session refers to your entire zipline adventure, whether at Empower Adventures or otherwise. This inspection is carried out after everyone has taken part in their tour before the next group gets started.
Per-Change Basis
Inspections based on changes in the zipline set-up are important to make sure that everything is ready and to ACCT standards before anyone rides. This is usually done after the initial set-up, and after any adjustments are made for whatever reason.
Updating Equipment
Safe ziplining at Empower Adventures, or any other zipline facility, relies on a lot of different equipment. Harnesses and helmets are extremely important, and letting them fall into disrepair will quickly make things much more dangerous. A good zipline provider will keep their equipment in good shape and up to date according to ACCT standards.
This also goes for some of the equipment you might not see when you’re on your tree top adventure. The fixtures and zipline itself need to be regularly inspected, maintained and replaced depending on how much they’re used, and how much damage they might sustain either from use, or from weather and the environment. At Empower Adventures, we’re always keeping a close eye on new technologies in zipline safety, so that we can stay ahead of the curb in the zipline experience.
Empower Adventures and Your Zipline Adventure
If you want a safe, secure zipline adventure that still offers excitement and a new challenge that will boost your confidence and help your team, friends or family to bond, you can trust us to provide it. Contact us today to book your zipline adventure.
