PTP Highlight: Elevated Safety

Inducted as a PTP in 2020, Elevated Safety provides the highest level of training in confined space as well as rope access, and rescue services across all industries. Elevated Safety also provides OSHA compliance training and compliance assistance to organizations across all industries. Elevated Safety has locations in Chicago, IL, Denver, CO, and Palm Beach, FL.

As part of a new 2023 series highlighting the Petzl Technical Partner Program, we’re featuring a different Partner each month. The PTP Program aims to develop a diverse network of training company partners and recognized leaders that can help Petzl promote our products and solutions to a wide variety of industries and end-users. Our PTPs are recognized experts, companies, or individuals in vertical environments that demonstrate a thorough understanding of their respective industry, contribute to the development of best practices, and meaningfully integrate Petzl into their systems and curriculum.

Petzl recently spoke with Nate Paulsburg, General Manager of Elevated Safety, about their company and partnership with Petzl.

To contact Elevated Safety about their services, email info@elevatedsafety.com.

What is your company’s mission statement?
We are dedicated to the safety of anyone that operates at height. We accomplish this by giving our customers the highest quality training, services, and gear.

Briefly describe your company’s history.
Elevated Safety was started over 13 years ago by a group of Chicago Area Fire Department Technical Rescue team members that wanted to continue learning and growing, so they became SPRAT certified and started working any job they could come across in order to continue to grow as rope practitioners. Services eventually turned into training, and then also into gear sales. A little over 5 years ago, Elevated Safety was acquired by Harken. We are now the service, training, gear sales, and R&D side of Harken Safety and Rescue. We have provided services and training across the globe and have physical locations in Illinois, Colorado, Florida, and Europe.

How is your company a leader for those you serve?
Elevated Safety has always approached everything we do with a “how can we perform in a more efficient and safe manner.” Are we using the best gear on the market to perform work and rescue? Are we teaching the best techniques to help keep our customers safe? Are we teaching the best techniques to make rescue more efficient and safer? Are we providing the most efficient solutions to our service customers? We strive to be at the tip of the spear in everything we teach and use, so we can give our customers the most efficient and safest solutions possible.

What does success look like to your company?
Success to us is delivering the best product we can to our customers to keep them safe. There is nothing more satisfying than receiving a message from a customer that used techniques taught or gear purchased to help facilitate a rescue or complete a job. We want to give out the tools to others so they can go out and do their jobs.

What is your favorite part about being a Petzl Technical Partner?
The community of course. The rope world is a very small community, and I think Michel Goulet said it best at the SPRAT midyear conference this year when he stated “It’s really cool to see all of these competitors in the same room discussing the best way forward.” And that is what it is all about--it’s about collaboration to bring up the industries we work in. In the next year, we will be collaborating on classes and jobs with 4-6 other PTPs, and that is what it is all about.

What is your favorite Petzl product? Why?
Petzl has a lot of great products that we use and sell, but is difficult to say anything other than the Petzl ASAP. It is the gold standard for belay devices. It is the device that I can look at from 30ft away and see that it is connected and loaded correctly and I immediately have a sense of relief knowing that my student or tech I’m supervising is safe.