Dangle Celebrates Living Wage Employer Award

Dangle Rope Access is celebrating after becoming the latest company in Scotland to exceed living wage, becoming a rope access employer that has been accredited as a Living Wage Employer. 

Dangle Rope Access is based in Scotland, a region where nearly a fifth of all jobs (17%) pay less than the real Living Wage, which is around an eye-watering 380,000 jobs. Despite this, Dangle has committed to pay the real Living Wage and deliver a “fair day’s pay for a hard day’s work.”

Simon Dunn, Managing Director, Dangle said: “Our Living Wage commitment will see everyone working at Dangle receive a minimum hourly wage of £9.30 in the UK or £10.75 in London. Both rates are significantly higher than the government minimum for over 25s, which currently stands at £8.72 per hour. 

The real Living Wage is the only rate calculated according to the costs of living. It provides a voluntary benchmark for employers that wish to ensure their staff earn a wage that they can live on, not just the government minimum. 

Since 2011 the Living Wage movement has delivered a pay rise to over 230,000 people and put over £1 billion extra into the pockets of low paid workers. 

Simon Dunn, Managing Director, Dangle said: "Dangle is committed to training and developing all our employees and creating opportunities in line with the Company Core Values and Business Plans. 

“We fully recognise the importance of setting clear targets for performance to enable employees to meet both personal and corporate goals, so it is our aim to provide a working environment that promotes personal development, equal opportunity, recognises an international, diverse workforce and encourages loyalty and commitment to our Company.

We are delighted to be now recognised by the UK's Living Wage Foundation for providing the necessary resources to allow us here to be explicit in our message of carefully selecting and placing employees to ensure that the correct person is in the correct place at the correct time."

Dangle Rope Access strives to deliver efficient use of manpower when it comes to facilitating the ability and potential of all employees, so that they benefit from fair rates of pay that exceeds the minimum living wage and are consistent with local market rates for similar rope access jobs

Katherine Chapman, Director, Living Wage Foundation said: “We’re delighted that Dundee based Dangle Rope Access has joined the movement of over 6000 responsible employers across the UK who voluntarily commit to go further than the government minimum to make sure all their staff earn enough to live on.

“They join thousands of small businesses, as well as household names such as Burberry, Barclays, Chelsea and Everton Football Clubs, Lush, and many more. These businesses recognise that paying the real Living Wage is the mark of a responsible employer and they, like Dangle, believe that a hard day’s work deserves a fair day’s pay."

About Dangle Rope Access

Here at Dangle Rope Access, we provide a variety of comprehensive inspection, access, coatings, and composite (IACC) industrial services. Our services are available to both the private and public sectors.

We offer high-quality proven solutions that will help reduce maintenance costs in both the long and short-term. We are based in Dundee, Scotland and also have offices based in Edinburgh, along with our newly established training centre in Northern Ireland Dangle Academy. Due to our company size and structure, we are able to offer a flexible and versatile approach to the way we run our business and the services that we offer our clients. And, as a leading painting company, we’ve worked on several renewable energy projects in the UK, Europe, and the US. 

We work with both on and offshore with wind farm operators, and asset owners. For offshore wind farm maintenance, to onshore building maintenance, we can cover both the East and West coasts. 

To find out more about how our team can help you contact us today. Our friendly, professional and helpful team is always on hand to help.