Personally I have a soft spot for the RATTAN , Tarring and feathering is so old fashioned.
One of the reasons I took early retirement was to escape the ever increasing beurocracy and over zealous OH&S dictators that were making it harder and harder for me to get the job done.
Yep Maritime NZ seem to be filling this role at the moment, with salvage teams with real expertise delayed by 3 days while an organization with little expertise and no credible leadership tries to work out if it is 'safe' or not. It has nothing to do with safety, quality, compliance etc and everything to do with a society that wants to shelter behind someone rather than take any self responsibility.
We had a good one a while back in Briz.
Big storm caught a couple of window washers out 40 stories up and they got trapped.
Along comes a couple of rockclimbers [ who work on hi rises for a living ] who abseiled down and saved one of the guys.
Unfortunately for the other guy the fire brigade arrived and stopped the climbers from saving him because it is dangerous to abseil off a tall building.
Second guy spent hours hanging in a very stiff breeze.
I think the fire brigade ended up abseiling down to him