About Keltic Falcon

Keltic Falcon Rope Access Experts are an independent rope access training service provider, located in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Our training is commonly used by IRATA, SPRAT, Tower, Bridge, Sign, and Maintenance companies as well as Industrial Rescue teams.

We provide premier instruction and assessment to ensure that you are knowledgeable, safe, and confident in your career as a rope access technician.

Keltic Falcon Rope Access Experts offers a world class training facility unlike any other venue in North America, based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. With over 4000 square feet it is Canada’s largest dedicated IRATA Rope Access Training Centre. Once a brewhouse facility, our centre offers many unique natural features that will make for a memorable, challenging and rewarding experience while obtaining your industrial rope access trade certifications.

Unlike most industrial rope access training providers we specialize in rope access training.

Keltic Falcon’s training centre offers multiple access location for every exercise required within the IRATA and SPRAT curriculums. Our goal is to produce the the most knowledgeable and well prepared rope access technicians on the planet.

Courses are scheduled 8:30am-4:30pm Monday-Friday with test day on Saturday. We will stay as long as it takes until all students are comfortable with each day’s training exercises regardless of scheduled stop time. Keltic Falcon is one of the few training providers in the world that offer 5 days training before certification testing whereas most others offer 4.

We offer IRATA and SPRAT training, as well as dual certification courses.

Daniel Thornton, the owner of Keltic Falcon, lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. For the past 30 years, he has worked abroad from P.E.I, Alberta, Louisiana, California, Alaska, Trinidad, Brazil, Nigeria, and everywhere in between.

Daniel has completed rope access projects in refineries, hydro dams, smoke stacks, boilers, pulp mills, oil rigs, buildings, bridges, geotechnical and container ships along with involvement in countless rope access training courses. We’ve bundled all this experience into a first class training facility back where it all began in Nova Scotia.

Keltic Falcon is the only Rope Access Training Company with its lead trainer certified as an IRATA Assessor since 2005 and SPRAT Evaluator. Daniel is the only one in Canada with these dual certifications and is one of only five in North America.

With Daniel’s balance of backgrounds in industrial rope access, real world operations, and training it has given him an in depth knowledge of the system.  Keltic Falcon has a firm grasp on what it takes to safely and successfully complete your rope access training and obtain your trade certification ticket.