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Powered Access
Review 2007
Take control
Manage your work
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Confronting the
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National training
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CONTENTS
Powered Access
Review 2007
Produced by:
Supplement editor: Paul Howard
Features editor: Will Mann
Group production editor: Russell Cox
Chief sub editor: Nick Shepherd
Layout sub editor: Hayley Pink
IPAF news editor:
Take control
Manage your work
at height p10
Confronting the
corner-cutters p16
National training
centre directory p41
INTERNATIONAL POWERED
ACCESS FEDERATION
www.ipaf.org
Berlinda Nadarajan
IPAF Head Office, Bridge End Business
Park, Milnthorpe LA7 7RH, UK
T +44 (0)15395 62444
F +44 (0)15395 64686
E info@ipaf.org
W www.ipaf.org
Further contact details on p50
Reed Business Information: Quadrant House,
The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5AS, UK.
Tel: +44(0)20 8652 4642
Fax: +44(0)20 8652 8958
Welcome – 4
IPAF managing director Tim Whiteman wants you to
help raise safety awareness.
News – 7
The latest news from IPAF and the world of powered
access.
Height aware debate – 10
IPAF, the HSE and contractors discuss awareness of
the risks associated with working at height.
President in profile – 16
IPAF president Andrew Reid talks tough.
Training faces – 19
Meet the people who benefit from IPAF’s training.
Rentals – 23
IPAF’s Rental+ logo is a sure sign of the highest
industry standards being met.
Did you know? – 27
Open your eyes to new ways of using powered access.
Stay on course – 30
Three new courses will soon be available from IPAF
training centres.
Strap yourself in – 31
When and where to wear harnesses.
Mastclimbers – 33
Details of IPAF’s revamped training course.
MEWPs for managers – 36
All managers need to know about work at height.
Member benefits – 38
Why becoming an IPAF member makes good sense.
International – 39
A round-up of news from around the world.
Training Centre directory – 41
A full listing of IPAF-approved centres in the UK
and abroad.
Manufacturers directory – 49
Find manufacturers who are IPAF members.
Key contacts – 50
Contact details for IPAF’s board, council, committees,
and offices.
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WELCOME
Save a life today!
“Powered access is
one of the safest
ways of working at
height and yet every
year people die for
want of wearing a
harness on boom
type platforms.”
www.sed.co.uk
WEAR A FULL BODY HARNESS
WITH A SHORT LANYARD IN
BOOM TYPE PLATFORMS
For full information about the correct use of harnesses in platforms, please
obtain technical guidance note H1 from IPAF. Tel: 015395 62444 www.ipaf.org
Free with this magazine is a little sticker
that could save a life. It says: “Wear a
harness on boom type platforms.”
This is a very simple message, but it’s
one that we need your help to get across
to the right people. Powered access is
one of the safest ways of working at
height and yet every year people die
for want of this simple message. If you
work with platforms or have them on
your site, help us to make sure that this
message gets to the right people.
So who are those people? They are the
operators of all boom type platforms.
Some of them will have been using the
equipment for years without a harness,
and will tell you so.
But those are exactly the kind of people
we need to reach before it’s too late.
Others will be new to the business and
will be happy for you to tell them that it
is standard safety practice to wear a full
body harness with the lanyard set short
in boom type platforms (for scissor
lifts other rules apply, but it is not
normally necessary to wear a harness).
The industry’s policy on this was
set by a joint team of the International
Powered Access Federation and the
Construction Plant-hire Association,
working together with the Health &
Safety Executive. Its advice is summarised
on a simple, pocket-sized
leaflet called IPAF H1. You can get
free copies from us by calling 015395
62444 or you can download it free from
www.ipaf.org.
So what should you do if you have
platforms working on your site? First
of all, be happy that you are using one
of the safest and most effective ways of
working at height – and one that the
HSE has specifically endorsed during
the introduction of the Work at Height
Regulations (WAHRs), but secondly,
make sure the equipment is being used
safely by trained operators. Think about
going on a short course to ensure you
can fulfil your responsibilities under the
WAHRs and read more about what the
HSE expects of you on page 10 of this
magazine.
But on a very practical note, think
about what you can do with that little
sticker. Stick it next to the controls of a
boom type machine – you really could
save a life.
Tim Whiteman
Managing director
International Powered Access Federation
www.ipaf.org
PS: Our thanks to the team at SED for
printing the stickers and supporting this
campaign. You can order extra stickers
and download free copies of IPAF’s
H1 leaflet on the use of harnesses at
www.ipaf.org.
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Your powered
access expertise
+
IPAF membership
=
Greater market
opportunity
IPAF membership can bring
you major benefits, whatever
your involvement with the
powered access industry.
First of all, it tells your
customers a lot about you. It lets
them know you have the highest
professional standards – and
reassures them that you are on
top of today’s health and safety
standards.
Because of our lobbying at
national and international
levels, you have a stronger
voice in all those issues that
affect your business – from
health and safety legislation
to the introduction of worldwide
standards and how they are
implemented country by country.
• Our advice line, publications
and bulletins help keep you in
touch with everything that is
going on – and make sure you
know how to respond to
technical, practical, commercial
and legal developments.
• Our operator training is second
to none – and recognised by the
MCG. Only IPAF members can
offer this market leading
training – now becoming
essential for the use of powered
access equipment.
Our IPAF Rental+ award
is only available to IPAF
rental company members.
This ensures that your
customers can identify
you as a specialist in
powered access rental –
and that you have been
independently audited to
meet high service
standards.
IPAF is the world authority in powered access. Find out how membership
can give you the same authority in the eyes of your customers.
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NEWS
250,000 PAL Cards boost safety
IPAF has issued its 250,000th PAL Card
(Powered Access Licence), announced
managing director Tim Whiteman at the
Professional Development Seminar for
IPAF instructors in September 2006.
“A quarter of a million people
have taken the time to get trained,
which makes the industry safer,” said
Whiteman. “But there are at least a million
more to be trained.”
The PAL Card is awarded to people
who successfully complete training on
powered access equipment. A PAL Card
is valid for five years and shows the
equipment categories that the holder
has been trained to operate. More than
200,000 people currently hold a valid
PAL Card.
The strong demand for training was
also confirmed by Kevin Appleton, CEO
of the Lavendon Group, which owns
Nationwide Access.
“We’re starting to see more customers
from outside of construction,
driven mainly by the Work at Height
Regulations,” said Appleton during his
talk at the IPAF Summit in April 2006.
“Construction-oriented customers are
a mature segment. The WAHRs and
increasing awareness of access safety
are driving growth among smaller, nonconstruction
businesses.”
DO OR DIE: This man was wearing a full body harness which saved his life when he overloaded the
basket by using it to lift a Christmas tree. But too many accidents happen for want of a harness, says
IPAF. Site managers who do not insist that their employees use one on boom lifts are taking a deliberate
decision to put lives at risk. IPAF advises users of boom type platforms to wear a full body harness with
an adjustable lanyard set as short as is possible. IPAF’s H1 technical guidance note on harnesses, issued
with the support of bodies such as the UK’s HSE, BGFE in Germany, Suva in Switzerland and other
organisations, can be downloaded at www.ipaf.org.
(Photo: Stuart Walker).
IPAF lobbies the EU for good sense on
amendments to Machinery Directive
The 3rd Amendment of the Machinery Directive
(2006/42/EC) was published in June 2006 and member
states’ regulations must come into force by 29
December 2009. New EU regulations governing the
design of all machinery, including powered access
platforms, will be introduced in the UK soon.
IPAF is carrying out an analysis of the old and
new versions of the Directive. “We are developing
ideas on what guidance IPAF members would
like, to help them understand and implement the
new version of the Directive,” said Gil Male, IPAF
technical officer. “The European Commission plans
to issue guidance on the new Directive and work
should start on this in 2007.”
Warning: Don’t tie up sliding mid-rails
IPAF is calling on all platform users to never tie
up sliding mid-rails. This follows concerns raised
by the Brussels-based committee monitoring the
implementation of the Machinery Directive.
Many IPAF manufacturer members have placed
decals on machines indicating that mid-rails and
drop-bars should never be tied up and IPAF is calling
for rental companies to follow suit.
“If you see a mid-rail tied up on your site, you
should immediately cut the tie or you could be
breaking the law,” said IPAF managing director
Tim Whiteman.
PAL Card goes
international
The PAL Card (Powered Access Licence)
is recognised in a growing number of
countries and this is helping to facilitate
cross-border working, says IPAF.
In the UK, the training programme
is approved by the Major Contractors
Group (MCG) and operators holding an
IPAF PAL Card should be welcomed on
any MCG site.
The PAL Card is recognised, among
others, by the Berufsgenossenschaften
in Germany, by Assodimi in Italy, by
the Scaffold Industry Association in
the USA and by Asociace ZZ-CR in the
Czech Republic. More than 50,000 PAL
Cards are issued each year through a
network of over 230 IPAF-approved
training centres worldwide.
Tim Whiteman, managing director
of IPAF, said: “If you have migrant
workers on site and they show you a
PAL Card issued in another language,
you can be sure that they have received
95% of the same top-quality training
certified as conforming to ISO 18878.
The 5% difference lies in the language
and country-specific health and safety
legislation.”
IPAF gets right
behind BS8454
IPAF conforms to the recently introduced
BS 8454 Delivery of Training for
Work at Height, confirmed managing
director Tim Whiteman at the 2006
Access Industry Forum conference.
“IPAF has performed an internal audit
and this will also be audited by a third,
independent party,” said Whiteman.
“Our advice is to make sure that your
training providers comply with the
standard.”
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NEWS
JLG chairman awarded PAL Card
Bill Lasky, chairman of the board, president
and CEO of JLG Industries, Inc, has
become the proud holder of a PAL Card.
Lasky, who is also deputy president of
the IPAF Board, successfully completed
an AWPT platform operator course at
JLG’s McConnellsburg training centre
in the United States. AWPT (Aerial
Work Platform Training) is IPAF’s North
American subsidiary.
Bill Lasky (right),
Lasky said: “I took the IPAF training
JLG chairman,
course to develop a deeper understanding
of the equipment at the end-user
CEO, receives his
president and
level so I can continue to lead the
AWPT PAL Card
company in providing new solutions to
and certificate
access challenges. It keeps me in touch
from Mike
with the industry and how our products
Popovich, JLG
are being used.”
training director.
MEWP users urged to
have a clean bill of health
IPAF has issued a health and
fitness statement stressing
that MEWP users should be
physically fit, in good health
and generally not have problems
with eyesight, hearing,
literacy and language comprehension.
Those with such
problems need not be precluded
from using MEWPs,
provided that their employer
implements adequate measures
to take account of any
difficulties they may have.
Visit www.ipaf.org to view
IPAF’s policy.
Truck-mounted platforms
win battle for red diesel
Truck-mounted platforms will not be
banned from using red diesel following
representations to the Treasury by
IPAF.
Amendments to the Excepted Vehicle
Schedule relating to Hydrocarbon Oils
will come into effect on 1 April 2007.
These will see mobile cranes, truckmounted
access platforms and mobile
concrete pumps with a revenue weight
exceeding 3.5t allowed to use red
diesel.
From that date, the Road Construction
Category will be removed and the
exception for street lighting van mounts
goes with it. Therefore, with effect
from 1 April 2007, all van-mounted
platforms (including small vehiclemounted
platforms under 3.5t) must run
on white diesel.
A new platform for
success – ipaf.org
CAP IN HAND: The CAP Card shows that the
holder is certified as a competent person to
carry out machine examinations as required by
legislation. Engineers who carry a CAP Card from
IPAF are certified as competent persons to plan,
manage or carry out examinations of platforms
in the context of current legislation (including the
Work at Height Regulations, LOLER and PUWER
98). CAP stands for Competent Assessed Person
and the card is issued following assessment by
experienced engineers from IPAF-approved
training centres. A list of CAP assessment centres
can be found at www.ipaf.org.
Stop by the re-designed website
www.ipaf.org, which is packed with
resources on platform use and training,
links and guidelines.
Find your nearest training centre
and get a listing of all IPAF events,
including the Access Summit on 27
March 2007 and the Professional
Development Seminar in September
2007.
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WORK AT HEIGHT
High-level
management
Since the arrival of the Work at Height Regulations, site managers have more
responsibility for safety than ever before. But are they aware of what they
should be doing? Contract Journal’s Will Mann finds out in a discussion with
HSE inspector Justine Lee, IPAF managing director Tim Whiteman, Bovis Lend
Lease head of health and safety Andrew Brown, and Taylor Woodrow acting
head of health and safety Steve Derbyshire.
WM: Perhaps you could start, Justine,
by telling us a bit about how the HSE’s
‘Height Aware’ campaign has been
going.
JL: In spring this year, HSE participated
in the campaign aimed at increasing
awareness of the risks of falls from
height. It was aimed at those who procure
work and those who carry out the
work in the building and plant maintenance
sectors.
We want people to understand the
risks of working at height better, and
show them some simple and sensible
measures they can take to minimise the
risks. We are trying to influence attitudes
and behaviour, so that people are
using equipment that is most appropriate,
not what’s most readily available.
We’ve done this by holding educational
events such as safety awareness days
and breakfast meetings. We also ran a
media campaign, plus the traditional
site inspections.
WM: What sort of things have you
found around the country – are people
aware of the implications of the Work at
Height Regulations (WAHRs)?
JL: We’ve found lots of examples of
good practice. For instance, one housing
association had done a cost-benefit
analysis for work on their domestic housing
stock, such as roof repairs, gutter
cleaning, aerial installation, that sort
of thing, and established that MEWPs
came out as the best option: there was
no security issue, they were less disruptive
to the householder, the MEWP was
trailer-mounted so it was easily transported
to site, and the purchase cost
included operator training.
WM: What has been the feeling among
contractors about the post-WAHRs era?
SD: I think the problem with the culture
change that came in with the WAHRs
was that a lot of rumours started
because the regs were not prescriptive.
TW: What would contractors like to see
from the HSE in terms of guidance?
SD: The problem our guys have is that
– post WAHRs – there hasn’t been guidance
on what to do in a certain situation.
It’s perceived that ladders are a
complete ‘no no’, and that if you end up
having an accident involving a ladder,
you’ve made a bad error of judgement.
JL: Well ladders are certainly not
banned. And in fairness, the HSE
and the British Ladder Manufacturers
Debating
work at height
responsibilities:
Do managers
know the pitfalls
to avoid?
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“We are trying
to influence
attitudes and
behaviour, so
that people are
using equipment
that is most
appropriate,
not what’s
most readily
available.”
Justine Lee
Association both prepared guidance
on this, not long after the WAHRs came
into effect. The HSE guidance is available
on our website.
AB: When the regulations came in,
I think there should have been more
communication about what actually
changes. The guys at site level have to
have knowledge about everything that
affects them. But have they had enough
guidance on how to make a judgement
when it comes to choosing what kit to
use in a work at height situation?
SD: We had an incident where someone
was injured using a podium tower where
they should really just have used a stepladder.
HSE guidance would be helpful
on such areas.
JL: There are two questions I’d raise in
a situation like that. First, had the person
received sufficient training for the
equipment he was using? Second, had
they assessed whether it was the most
appropriate piece of equipment to use in
the circumstances?
AB: It’s hard for a site manager when
you don’t understand the WAHRs in as
much detail as an inspector does.
JL: But little has changed compared
to the old CHSW Regulations and if
you were complying before, you’ll be
complying now. We just want people
to think carefully about the work, and
rather than turning up with a ladder
on the van and getting the job done,
using that ladder because it’s what
they happen to have with them, they
should select the right equipment for
the job.
WM: How have contractors reacted to
the scrapping of the old 2m rule?
SD: The old system needed changing,
but now there is just confusion. Should
there be a new minimum height level? It
would make it easier for our guys on site
to make the right decision.
JL: The WAHRs were signed by the
Minister on the basis that there would
be a review of the 2m rule. That review
is now underway and a paper should
go to the Health & Safety Commission
towards the end of November 2006.
WM: One point that has emerged from
the WAHRs is how much pressure and
responsibility it puts on site managers.
SD: Yes, and I sometimes think that
as an industry, we have a tendency to
overestimate the capabilities and experience
of our site managers. I think that
when they’re choosing kit, they see the
work at height hierarchy, which places
a MEWP above a ladder and often use a
MEWP when they don’t really need to.
JL: With any kit, I would expect
people to have had training so they
understand how the kit is supposed to
be used. There is the perception that
if someone uses a ladder and things
go wrong, they’ll be automatically
criticised by the HSE, and that isn’t the
case. The WAHRs have been written in
such a way to allow ladders to be used
in certain circumstances. It’s about
doing the risk assessment, referring to
the work at height hierarchy and then
selecting the right equipment.
WM: But the hierarchy does indicate
that a ladder comes below a MEWP – do
you think it makes it a little confusing
for site managers, and makes them
automatically choose a MEWP?
JL: It shouldn’t do, the hierarchy is there
to help people do their risk assessment.
AB: We’re trying to bring in our own
interpretation of the hierarchy – perhaps
involving a graphical system, or some
kind of matrix – that makes it easier for
site managers to make a decision.
SD: Does the HSE see site managers’
awareness of what kit should be selected
as a problem within the industry?
JL: Well the person who is doing the
planning has to be competent. That’s
the aim of the one-day MEWPs for
Managers course that IPAF have developed.
AB: Would you expect any site manager
on site to have done the course?
JL: It would certainly help. There’s
nothing else out there for managers. The
use of MEWPs has gone up considerably
in recent years, and that’s why IPAF
devised this course.
WM: What’s the contractor view on
that?
SD: I certainly think it would be a help.
In fact any course that raises both
awareness and competency is welcome.
MEWPs are increasingly being used
in all areas of the industry. The issue
for us is how can we (as an industry)
obtain the appropriate levels of awareness
training so that our managers can
competently choose, or discuss with
contractors, which MEWP or piece of kit
continued on page 13
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“IPAF’s MEWPs for
Managers course will
give those making these
decisions the knowledge
to help them decide
whether a MEWP is the
most suitable piece of
equipment for the work.”
Tim Whiteman
continued from page 11
is appropriate. It appears this course will
provide that awareness training.
AB: I agree with the idea, but I’d like to
know more about the content.
TW: IPAF’s MEWPs for Managers
course, developed with the HSE, covers
regulations on health and safety
and MEWP usage, accident prevention
and control, the importance of
machine familiarisation, as well as
pre-use and daily maintenance of
machines. It is a one-day course targeted
at managers who have MEWPs
being used on site. In a nutshell, it
aims to give managers everything
they need to know about planning,
selecting and co-ordinating the use
of MEWPs on site.
JL: It is management’s responsibility to
ensure that all work at height is properly
planned and organised in advance, by a
competent person, and if work can be
planned so that having someone working
at height can be avoided, then this
should be done. This forms part of the
risk assessment.
Where it is not possible to avoid
working at height, management must
ensure that the most appropriate equipment
is selected and used and that
people are trained and competent to
undertake the work. This course will
give those making these decisions the
knowledge to help them decide whether
a MEWP is the most suitable piece of
equipment for the work.
WM: Justine, do you have any specific
concerns regarding the use of MEWPs
on site?
JL: I think the lack of familiarisation
training is a concern. Each MEWP has
it own unique controls according to the
manufacturer.
WM: Is familiarisation training down to
the supplier?
JL: Yes, but whoever’s hiring the kit
should be asking for familiarisation
training as well.
AB: It’s an interesting point because, if
you take the car analogy, you must have
a driving licence to hire a car. Should
hire companies only be allowed to hire
MEWPs to, let’s say, PAL Card holders?
JL: I would agree in principle. It’s in
their interest to ensure that only properly
trained operators use their kit.
continued on page 14
“MEWPs are increasingly
being used in all areas of
the industry. Any course
that raises both awareness
and competency is
welcome.”
Steve Derbyshire
IPAF POWERED ACCESS REVIEW 2007 13

“There is big growth
in MEWPs at the
moment, and there is
the perception that
they’re safer, but of
course, they’re only
as safe as the person
using them.”
Andrew Brown
continued from page 13
AB: I would also argue that for an electrician,
for instance, a MEWP should
be regarded as a tool of his trade in the
same way that a drill is. Why shouldn’t
it be part of an electrician’s training?
TW: We’re trying to persuade the colleges
to do that.
AB: There is big growth in MEWPs at
the moment, and there is the perception
that they’re safer, but of course,
they’re only as safe as the person using
them, and they are very technical bits
of kit. If you extend the car analogy,
people think 30 to 40 lessons are necessary
to pass – yet we say MEWPs are
more technical than cranes and we ask
for less training!
TW: Though you could argue that traffic
conditions are more dangerous than
average site conditions, which is why
you need all those lessons.
AB: I would hate to be a site manager
at present: there are so many cards out
there it must be almost impossible to
establish if someone is competent to use
a certain item of kit.
SD: With CSCS, there have been more
and more fraudulent cards about. An
agency might supply us with labour
that either did not have the appropriate
cards, or had fraudulent cards, but they
are not prosecuted. We try to manage
this as best we can, but there’s no real
deterrent. However, if someone was
caught with a fake driving licence, they
would quickly be prosecuted.
AB: And if it was established someone
on our site was using kit they were not
qualified for, the HSE will quickly come
down on us.
SD: There needs to be some sort of
central controlling authority to suspend
these agencies. We can say we’ll never
use them again, but they will still work
elsewhere in the industry. At present,
agencies don’t want to be responsible
for who they have on their books.
AB: Would the HSE ever take enforcement
action against an individual who
had procured a fraudulent card?
JL: The HSE can take enforcement
action for lack of training, but fraud
would be investigated by the police.
SD: One thing that could make a difference
to the fraudulent cards issue is
online authentication – if you could do
a simple check on the web to authenticate
the operator, that would be a huge
help to our site managers.
TW: It’s certainly something we could
look at. I also wonder if some kind of
swipe system could be integrated into
the ignition system?
WM: I guess that would be an issue for
manufacturers, but it raises an interesting
question: should there be pressure
on manufacturers to bring features into
their kit that help make the industry
safer? Should there be greater standardisation
in their kit to cut down on
confusion?
SD: Yes, better ergonomic design is
needed, with standardised controls. It’s
ridiculous that you could pull the lever
one way with one kind of MEWP to go
up, but the other way with a different
manufacturer’s machine and you would
go down! In a car, you know the accelerator,
brake and clutch will all be in the
same place.
WM: But how do you get the manufacturers
onside?
SD: It’s difficult. They’re strong.
TW: Well, we’ve got EN280, which
eventually brought dramatic safety
improvements and one of the issues
that the IPAF Manufacturers’ Technical
Committee is looking into is how to
standardise controls on machines.
WM: Maybe when we next do this
debate, we need to have a manufacturer
representative here as well!
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PRESIDENT IN PROFILE
View from
the top
Andrew Reid, the new president of IPAF, is
one of the pioneers of powered access. Phil
Bishop talks to him about the policy to get
tough with rogues and corner-cutters in
the industry.
tion to detail was lost, accidents began
to happen and mast climbers fell out of
favour.
Specialist offering
Reid returned to the industry in 1996,
establishing Mastclimbers as a specialist
rental company. “When I started
Mastclimbers it was a case of buying
back kit that had been lying around in
yards with nettles growing over it,“ he
says. But with a good scrub and a lick of
paint, it was as good as new.
The first purchase was the fleet of
Foulis, which had 70 machines. Three
days later, while dismantling a mast
climber that Foulis had erected in
Glasgow, the platform collapsed. “That
was my relaunch back into the mastclimbing
industry,” says Reid. “During
the investigations into that accident,
I was informed by the HSE that they
were within a whisker of banning them.
There had been a couple of fatalities the
year before with the EPL fleet. The use
of the product was beginning to be an
embarrassment because of the number
of accidents,” he recalls.
When Andrew Reid looks around the
construction industry today he is “gobsmacked”,
he says, “at the number of
powered access products and the level
of acceptance they now have”. This
is because he can recall the days, 25
years ago, when he would drive around
construction sites with a boom lift or
scissor lift on the back of a trailer trying
to persuade people to try it. “I look back
at how we had to knock down doors to
get people to even look at the thing,” he
says. “It was true pioneering stuff. We
were literally forcing people to try it.”
Over the past 30 years, Reid – now
60 – has played a key role in getting
firstly boom and scissor lifts, and then
mast climbing work platforms, accepted
in the UK. And he has worked in manufacturing,
distribution and the rental
side as well.
Career move
Reid’s first contact with the powered
access industry was in 1975. He was
working in marketing for Coles Cranes
at the time. John L Grove had been
squeezed out of the Grove Crane company
that he had founded and so, having
signed a non-compete agreement,
established JLG Industries to produce
powered access platforms.
JLG approached Coles with a proposal
for the latter to produce its platforms in
the UK. The talks came to nothing, but
they paved the way for a team from
Coles to move to JLG in 1979 to set up a
new factory in Cumbernauld. So it was
that Reid returned to his native Scotland
after eight years in London with Coles
as sales and marketing director of JLG.
In 1985 he left JLG to set up his own
business, Anca Work Platforms, importing
mast-climbing equipment made
in Sweden by Malmqvist Svenska, in
which he was also a major shareholder
until its sale to HEK of Holland six years
later.
“Mast climbers were still an embryonic
product”, he says, but Reid was
sufficiently successful in persuading the
industry that they represented the next
revolution in access that he made sales
to the major rental companies of the
day, such as PTP, Scott Greenham and
Hewden Stewart. “PTP built up a fleet of
a couple of hundred units,” he recalls.
In fact, Anca Work Platforms was
sold to PTP in 1986, and eventually
became the core of BET and Rentokil’s
mast-climbing subsidiary.
However, the image of mast climbers
came to take a battering. They are
a specialist piece of kit, but as rental
companies changed hands, they began
to be treated as commodity items. “The
product lost its specialised support from
people who knew how to handle them,
and they got parcelled in with scissors
and booms,” Reid explains. As atten-
Raising standards
This experience informs Reid’s close
involvement with IPAF and the role
he has played in the development of
standards. He has chaired IPAF’s mastclimbers
committee since its formation
20 years ago, when it got together with
the HSE to define the regime for this
new product. “We have gone from a lack
of definition, to a European harmonised
design standard adopted by ISO and a
British standard for safe use. That’s been
achieved through IPAF,” he says.
The standards agenda was given a
major push after the Glasgow accident.
“That accident led me to delve very
deeply into all manner of legislation,” he
says. Within five years, all the European
and British standards had been re-written.
“And – dangerous as it is to say – I
am delighted that there hasn’t been an
MCWP accident in the UK in the past
three years,” he adds.
Tough regulation
With first-hand experience of how
accidents, and the headlines that they
generate, can impact on the perception
of a product and the reputation of an
industry, Reid is a firm believer in tough
regulation to promote best practice and
safety.
“What happens in every industry,
companies, people, individuals are basically
out to make a buck. If they can cut
a corner this way, cut a corner that way
“There is nothing more sickening than seeing certain
organisations disregard standards and put the whole
industry at risk.”
Andrew Reid
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“My vision is that a day will come when no serious contractor or
industry user will buy or hire a piece of access equipment from
anybody other than an IPAF member.”
Andrew Reid
to make an extra buck, unfortunately
they will do it. There is nothing more
sickening than seeing certain organisations
disregard standards and put the
whole industry at risk. Any incident
that hits the press of a scaffold collapse,
a mast-climber collapse or a boom lift
tipover tends to lead people to revert to
traditional methods of access. We don’t
want corner-cutters reducing usage,”
he says.
Avoiding delays
This is to be the major theme of
Reid’s two-year term of office. In his
inaugural presidential address to the
IPAF AGM in April 2006, he said:
“Accidents will happen and when they
do every one of us suffers. It gives
the luddites a further excuse to delay
progress; progress being the adoption
of our technology that goes forward
to progress the industry. It is all of our
duty to minimise this.
“My vision is that a day will come
when no serious contractor or industry
user will buy or hire a piece of access
equipment from anybody other than an
IPAF member and that they will do that
with the complete confidence that they
are going to receive a fit-for-purpose
product supported by trained people
who know their business.
“Non-compliance or corner-cutting
by IPAF members will be highlighted,
leading to exposure, leading to name
and shame, and ultimately leading to
expulsion from IPAF.
“It is a sorry fact that in most of the
Western world the safety authorities, the
HSE, OSHA in the USA, other bodies
throughout Europe – they do not police
– nobody polices. They wait until things
go wrong and then the lawyers pounce
on the situation.
“I see a role here to improve the
adherence to safety standards in some
form of diligent policing that raises the
standard of all IPAF members. Other
bodies have done this and they have
achieved a level of acceptance and a
level of professionalism that is the envy
of all. It is my objective to project IPAF
towards this goal over the course of the
next two years.”
Expanding on the theme today, he
acknowledges that it is hard for IPAF
to refuse membership for companies
applying to join, since it could be construed
as restraint of trade. However,
where existing established IPAF members
have voiced concerns about new
applicants – sometimes well-founded
and sometimes not – entry has sometimes
been made conditional on them
demonstrating adherence to certain
quality standards.
Warning signs
That said, Reid is a pragmatist and not a
safety fanatic. He recalls a vigorous dispute
between the industry (which eventually
won) and the HSE some years ago
over a proposal that gates on platforms
should have warning signs saying that
gates should not be opened while in use.
“You don’t have signs on the inside of
car doors warning you not to open them
while moving, do you?” he says.
Reid sees the IPAF Rental+ scheme as
a key plank in the strategy to promote
best practice and adherence to standards.
However, eliminating corner-cutting
will be a gradual, evolutionary
process. “It’s nothing that’s going to
be immediately and earth-shatteringly
realised. It’s just something I want to get
people talking about. It’s the old story
of throwing mud at a wall and hoping
some of it sticks,” he says.
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TRAINING
Training faces
IPAF’s mobile elevating work platform training courses
attract a wide variety of operators from all areas of
industry. Geoff Ashcroft spoke with three recently trained
operators to find out what they gained from their courses.
Electrical and mechanical engineering
contractor John Frizell has found that
attending a MEWP training course and
getting a PAL Card (Powered Access
Licence) for a self-propelled boom has
encouraged safer and more productive
operating techniques while on site.
“Most of our work is off the ground,
so diesel-powered booms tend to feature
heavily in what we do,” explains Frizell,
who is currently working on Heathrow’s
T5 project for his employer, Dartfordbased
Crown House Technology.
“The increasing amount of high-level
work we now handle means we need to
have more operators with PAL Cards, so
that we can get over the workload safely
and be more productive.”
“As work progresses, often to tight
time schedules, it’s important for us
to have more colleagues capable of
operating these types of machinery, and
having a day’s specialist training and
assessment is essential,” he reckons.
Frizell says booms are the platform of
choice for the work he’s involved with
at T5, given the reach they offer to carry
out electrical installation work among
multi-level car parking facilities.
“Some of the equipment we currently
use extends to 10m,” he says. “Training
is essential – you can’t put just anyone
on this type of kit anymore.”
Learning curve
While he admits to being no stranger
to booms, having spent several years
working with kit that offered much less
reach and height, he accepts that learning
more about the latest equipment and
how it operates has been a useful step.
“Training took place on site, which
was really useful as it gave me an
insight specifically into the equipment
we’re currently using,” he says.
“Attending the course has made me look
at things differently. The training has
helped me to make more thorough risk
assessments, and enabled me to identify
safety issues that could have been easily
overlooked.”
While he concedes that much of the
training course is common-sense based,
there were additional elements of powered
access operation that have been
brought to his attention.
“Machine manoeuvrability around
site, in addition to safe working at
height, is an area that can easily be
overlooked,” he says. “But after attending
the course, I feel much more aware
of what is going on around me while I’m
working with the platform.”
Devon-based carpenter Mark Pardoe
recently attended an IPAF course to
acquire his PAL Card for booms and
scissor lifts.
“It does everyone some good to be
made more aware of your working
environment and the safety issues that
go with it,” says the chippy, who is one
of 20 craftsmen working for Jim Davis
Carpenters in Exmouth, Devon.
Currently working on the refurbishment
of a five-storey, 200-year-old
pottery, which is being transformed into
luxury apartments, he sees his PAL Card
as a useful qualification that should
ensure continuity of work on site.
“In the safety-driven industry we
work in, there seems to be more and
more emphasis on having tickets and
licences for what you are required to
do, and that goes way beyond our own
trade’s skills,” he says. “But when you’re
working 30 feet in the air, you just can’t
Training is split
into theory and
practice, including
a written and
a practical test
where trainees
are assessed
by a certified
instructor.
A trained platform operator is able to get the job done safely, effectively and productively.
continued on page 20
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continued from page 19
compromise on safety issues, nor can
you afford to have someone working
with you, just to lift you up and put
you down.”
“Where scaffolding used to be the
preferred means of working on the
outside of buildings, powered access has
taken over – it just offers so much more
flexibility and productivity, particularly
for trades like us replacing external
windows,” he says.
Informative training
While Pardoe reckons the bulk of the
course hinges around certain fundamental
elements, he found some aspects
of the day’s training to be refreshingly
informative.
“Our instructor was very much to the
point,” he says. “While there are lots of
common-sense issues and reminders,
you do tend to overlook and forget
about them when complacency sets in
– and that’s inevitable when you do the
same tasks over and over again.”
“I’d never before considered planning
how I would use a battery powered
machine to conserve its energy or ensure
that I planned my working time to suit
the battery life available,” he adds.
He also reckons that the course provided
useful additional information that
goes beyond the safe operation of the
work platform. He says the use of harnesses,
being tied on and ensuring tools
are secured too while working from the
platform, have all helped him to be safer
and more productive in what he does.
“Attending the course has had a
direct impact on how my colleagues and
I now interact when we work at height,”
he says.
Lofty ambitions
Working on all manner of contracts for
West Sussex Joinery, Mike Younge has
found increasingly that more and more
time is spent working at height – which
prompted his attendance at a recent
training course to earn a PAL Card.
“We’re busy putting up dry linings
and plasterboard partition walls, but
About IPAF training and the PAL Card
The IPAF training programme for
operators of mobile elevating
work platforms is certified by
TüV as conforming to ISO 18878.
Training is provided through a
worldwide network of over 250
IPAF-approved training centres.
Successful trainees are
awarded the PAL Card (Powered
Access Licence). A PAL Card is
valid for five years and shows
the equipment categories that
the holder has been trained
to operate. More than 50,000
people are trained each year
to use platforms safely and
effectively.
The PAL Card is recognised in many countries as proof of platform operator training. In the UK, the
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most of them are in large, open buildings,
which requires almost constant
working at height,” he says.
“Quite often we’re finding that partition
walling in large buildings takes
us up to working heights of 11m, and
it makes sense to have more than one
person qualified for the safe operation
of a scissor lift. This way, we have
operational flexibility in what we do,”
he explains.
Additionally, Younge believes that
more and more firms are being increasingly
asked for licences and tickets by
site agents to prove that proper equipment
training has been carried out,
before they are allowed on site.
“I see what I’ve achieved as being yet
another skill that makes our firm much
more valuable to those who employ our
specialist services,” he says.
In August 2006, Younge was trained
on-site, using a scissor lift that is onhire
to West Sussex Joinery.
“I found it very useful to be trained
on-site using our own equipment and in
a working environment that is familiar
to me,” he says. “Given the choice, it’s
much less intimidating than going to
a training centre or perhaps having
to return to a college to get specialist
training and assessments carried out.”
Younge attended the training session
with an open mind.
“You look at kit and think that it’s
easy enough to operate, which, to a
degree is true,” he says. “But you don’t
always see the risks associated with
what you’re doing, or see how others
around your working area can put you
at risk.
“It’s easy to take straightforward
things for granted, without thinking
about how a situation can quickly
change, and the course was useful in
addressing some of those scenarios to
make you much more aware of what is
going on around you.”
“I learnt a lot about how to assess and
identify ground conditions, and how
different surfaces can affect machine
stability too,” he says. “With a PAL
Card, I can work independently of others,
which makes our team much more
productive.”
Thanks to Nationwide Access for
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IPAF RENTAL+
Wheat and chaff
Hire companies sporting the IPAF Rental+ logo have
demonstrated that they meet the very highest industry
standards. Customers using these companies can be
assured they are employing the industry’s best. Phil
Bishop reports.
When machines are delivered,
IPAF Rental+ companies offer a
demonstration to make sure that
customers are familiar with the controls.
Barriers to entry in the powered access
rental business are remarkably low. A
battered old machine can be bought for
a snip, and if you ask for little enough
rent, there will always be customers who
are happy to accept the lowest levels of
service, performance and reliability.
The challenge for the industry as a
whole is not just protecting margins
against such lowest common denominators,
but to drive up standards across the
board to preserve and enhance safety
standards. Hand in hand with this is the
need to educate customers that there is
a huge difference between those companies
that go to great lengths to do things
properly and comply with all relevant
standards and regulations, and those
companies that routinely cut corners.
Last year the International Powered
Access Federation (IPAF) introduced a
new ‘kite mark’ scheme, called IPAF
Rental+.
Companies authorised to display the
IPAF Rental+ mark have been independently
audited and found to meet
defined standards in customer service,
safety, staff training, contract terms and
machine inspection (see box, overleaf).
The scheme is entirely voluntary and
half a dozen companies have qualified
for the mark so far, including:
■ Rapid Platforms Ltd, based in
Bishop’s Stortford;
■ Watford-based Alan Drew Ltd (which
was taken over by AFI in April 2006);
■ Facelift Access Hire of Hickstead; and
■ Panther Platform Rentals Ltd of
Dunstable.
(See current list at www.ipaf.org)
Although the scheme was officially
launched last year, there was still a
pilot phase to be gone through. “It is
only beginning to crystallise now,” says
IPAF managing director Tim Whiteman.
“A lot of companies are now applying
for it.”
Whiteman says that the scheme
offers companies valuable assistance
in raising their game and applying the
IPAF Rental+ template to their business,
without the huge costs of bringing in
consultants.
For well-run companies such as
these, achieving the required level was
not a huge leap. “We just had to tighten
up procedures,” says Gordon Leicester,
owner and managing director of
Facelift. “We were pretty much already
there in the first place.”
For Rapid Platforms, the first company
to secure the award, it was mostly
a case of formalising existing practice.
“There were certain things we did but
didn’t document,” says training manager
Chris Buisseret. “Now we do,” he says.
“Basically, it’s a matter of standards. We
have always had a strong training ethos
in the company.”
His colleague, Colin Hall, a former
director of Rapid Platforms and still
retained as a consultant, explains that
for the hire desk it meant being more
systematic, and ensuring every team
member was using the same check list
of questions when talking to customers,
particularly new customers.
Hall says: “When you’ve been running
a system for a long time, sometimes
you can’t see the wood for the
continued on page 24
IPAF senior
auditor Giles
Councell (right)
presents the IPAF
Rental+
award to Brian
Fleckney of
Panther Platform
Rentals, one of
the newest
companies to join
the scheme.
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“Customers should
start to realise that
the IPAF Rental+
companies are
safer companies to
do business with.”
Gordon Leicester
Managing director
Facelift
The IPAF
Rental+ logo
is a sure sign
of reliability
and good
service.
continued from page 23
trees. The audit made us evaluate what
we do and made us sharpen up some of
our paperwork and ensure everyone on
the hire desk knows about every bit of
kit.”
Regular inspections
For customers, who may not care about
the procedures and paper trails within
the offices of their equipment suppliers,
the real benefit from using an IPAF
Rental+ company is that it is safe to
assume that the machines have been
properly and regularly inspected.
“A lot of the time, customers haven’t
the faintest idea whether their machine
has been inspected or not,” Leicester
says. “Nowadays, when you get into a
lift in a block of flats, you absolutely
assume it is inspected regularly. Today
they probably are, but in the 1960s there
were a lot of accidents.”
He continues: “Everybody assumes
that all access hire companies are
working to the same standards,” says
Leicester. ”But there are lots of people
out there who don’t inspect machines
pre-hire or are not timely in their sixmonthly
thorough examinations.”
Both Facelift and Rapid Platforms
find that, for the time being, the power
of the mark to win business is limited.
However, they expect this to change.
Quality systems
Hall says there is kudos attached to
being an IPAF Rental+ company and
it certainly helps relations with big
customers such as Glaxo SmithKline
and The Tate, who prize quality systems
and safety prizes. However, its pull as a
sales tool with construction contractors
remains limited until awareness of the
scheme grows.
Leicester agrees. “Too few companies
have it for it to really mean anything
yet,” he says. “As more companies join,
contractors will become more aware of
what it stands for.”
The importance of the scheme will
be particularly enhanced as the UK’s
fleet of powered access equipment
gets older, Leicester believes. “In five
years’ time there will be a lot of age-
Meeting the IPAF Rental+ standard
ing fleets in the UK. That is why the
IPAF Rental+ scheme has been started
now,” he says.
“This is the beginning of voluntary
industry self-regulation. It will
become a big thing over the next
couple of years. Customers should
start to realise that the IPAF Rental+
companies are safer companies to do
business with.”
Training
• All delivery drivers must be trained and competent to provide demonstrations
of the machines.
• All operators must be IPAF trained and certified.
• All engineers must have appropriate qualifications, whether as full service and
maintenance engineers, or as PDI inspectors.
• All hire desk staff must be trained so that they can understand what a
customer wants, to stop mistakes from happening through providing
inappropriate machines.
Booking
• Procedures must be in place to ensure the right questions are asked to
ascertain what machine is best for the job, and if the customer is uncertain, to
offer to conduct a site-survey.
Cross-hire
• Where cross-hire is used, the companies who provide this service do so to the
levels set out in IPAF Rental+.
Maintenance
• All appropriate PDI and maintenance paperwork/records must be kept.
Delivery
• When a machine is handed over to a customer, there must be an offer of a
demonstration of the machine for the purposes of familiarisation with its
controls.
• There must also be proof of this question having been asked, and there should
be a system in place to deal with circumstances in which this familiarisation is
not possible.
Other areas
• IPAF auditors also verify that a company has processes and policies in place
for dealing with issues such as customer satisfaction, insurance, and health &
safety.
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CASE STUDIES
Access all areas
Construction is just one of many sectors
benefiting from the wide range of applications
powered access offers. Phil Bishop reports.
Many users of powered access are
still unfamiliar with the vast array of
machines that are available and the
new possibilities that they open up in all
kinds of applications.
While scissor lifts and telescopic
boom lifts remain the main basic types
of aerial work platforms, there are wide
variations upon these themes, powered
by electricity, diesel or bi-energy
sources.
Scissor lifts range from huge rough
terrain machines offering large platform
areas, working heights of more
than 17m and the ability to cope with
gradients of up to 50%, through to
smaller units that can fit through standard
doorways for working indoors, and
even into goods elevators.
While scissor lifts offer excellent
straight up and down capability, boom
lifts offer geometry to reach otherwise
inaccessible spots quickly and simply.
There are also articulating models for
up-and-over reach, or in the case of
Compact Genie Runabout GR15 mast
platforms are being used to install M&E
services in the new Oncology Unit at St
James’ Hospital in Leeds.
bridge inspection units, down-andunder
reach.
Boom lifts might be self-propelled,
trailer-mounted or, if you really need to
get up high, truck-mounted. The biggest
truck-mounts offer reach of over 100m.
Then there are small mast booms and
large mast climbing work platforms. In
fact, whatever the application, there is
a machine available. Rental companies
are no longer relying on the construction
industry and steel erectors for
custom. Architects and surveyors use
them as inspection tools. Tree surgeons,
glaziers, lighting engineers, film units,
window cleaners, TV cable companies
and home decorators are among those
increasingly realising that powered
access helps them to carry out jobs more
swiftly, safely and economically.
For example, the low-cost European
airline, Flybe, uses specially adapted
12m trailer-mounts for safe working
at height on its fleet of 36 airplanes.
Battery-powered Niftylifts are towed
to the job site by transit van. A special
feature is ‘cat whisker’ sensors that
allow platforms to get right up to the
fuselage but prevent them touching it.
Retractable axles reduce the machine
width to just 1.1m, which is small
enough to pass through a standard
double door.
Powered access also provided aircraft
rescue specialist Support Air with a
temporary repair facility for a stranded
Boeing 767 in the Dominican Republic.
A 23m telescopic boom and two 8.5m
diesel scissors were air-freighted the
same day to the scene of the immobilised
aircraft. The platforms were used
alongside a mobile crane to remove the
plane’s tail fin.
Airplanes are not the only delicate
structures that have to be treated carefully.
The inspection and repair of historic
buildings often benefit from powered
access, where alternative access
solutions such as scaffolding are either
not possible or not economic.
A 44m Eagle truck-mount helped
refurbishment contractor Menaway
Ltd replace rotten fin sections of an
11th century windmill in the village
of Caldecote, Buckinghamshire. As
an important part of British heritage,
the 34m-high mill presented various
access challenges that were further
hampered by uneven ground and the
close proximity of adjacent buildings.
The Eagle proved ideal to achieve the
task with its impressive 30m outreach
getting operators up and over all obstacles.
Proportional controls allowed for
accurate positioning of the four-man
platform between the sails and an
integral intercom system enabled direct
communication between crews.
The chapel of Marlborough College
continued on page 28
Scissor lifts offer
excellent straight
up and down
capability.
A truck-mounted
platform gives
access past the
blades of an
ancient windmill.
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continued from page 27
in Wiltshire required equal kid-glove
treatment. While former pupils have
occasionally been known to shin up
the side to place a chamber pot atop
the spire, a safer solution was required
to inspect the 250kg bell, hung from
a height of 25m. Surveyors were concerned
the bell housing had become
unsafe. A Genie S-85 telescopic boom
allowed a speedy inspection that confirmed
the presence of both rot and
corrosion in the bell’s iron reinforced
timber frame.
With its 23m of outreach and a working
height of up to 27m, the S-85 was
easily able to get up and over undergrowth
restricting the perimeter of the
chapel. Two trained operators from the
college’s maintenance team used the
machine’s articulating jib to reach a
compact 160mm square timber hatch
on the tower roof, which covers the bell
fastening.
With the introduction of the Work
at Height Regulations in 2005, many
trades have had their eyes opened to the
benefits of powered access, particularly
those that have traditionally relied on
ladders such as window cleaners and
decorators.
Powered access was used by a refurbishment
specialist painting waterside
A smaller JLG 450AJ boom lift is used to
raise flags in the Mall.
balconies in Wapping. The five-storey
Capital Wharf apartment block on the
edge of the Thames presented a number
of challenges to the contractor, including
tight deadlines and a complete lack
of vehicular access to the base of the
façade. These were solved by a lightweight
Niftylift Heightrider 21 self-propelled
articulated boom that was floated
down the Thames on a barge and then
lifted by crane into position. It proved to
be a faster, simpler and more cost effective
alternative to traditional scaffolding,
the contractor learned.
Weight advantage
The Heightrider 21 was chosen due to
its high operating envelope and low
overall weight. At just 6,100kg, it could
be easily lifted by the barge crane onto
the narrow water frontage. It then made
light work of getting two operators up
and over ground level obstructions to
each individual balcony – the highest
at 20m up.
Good reach from a small package was
also required by specialist contractor
Rotary (Yorkshire) to install overhead
cabling and ductwork in the new
Oncology Unit at the St James’ Hospital
in Leeds. A fleet of eight ultra-compact
Genie Runabout GR15 mast platforms
is being used to beat the space constraints.
“The days of step ladders and trestles
are long gone,” says Rotary’s project
manager Graham Rawlins. “The small
battery-powered scissor lifts are now
the standard spec for this work, but on
this occasion the compact nature of the
GR15 provided access to more areas.”
The Genie Runabout features a
telescopic vertical mast that allows
unbeatable compactness for a given lift
height. The stowed height of the GR15
is only 1.57m and the chassis is just
700mm-wide and 1.35m-long. With
a working height of 6.47m this kind
of machine provides access through
both restricted entrances and between
pipework at height.
Perfect solution
Rawlins reports that the Runabouts have
proved the ideal solution for his team.
“Most of the rooms within the building
are already finished and some of them
are quite small,” he says. “Consequently,
we have to manoeuvre in very tight
spaces and are travelling from room to
room all the time.” The GR15’s compact
frame allows it to pass easily through
a narrow doorway and its zero inside
turning radius means that once inside
a room it can quickly navigate its way
into the right position.
Access challenges are also presented
by roller coasters and other such theme
park attractions.
Chessington World of Adventures in
Surrey uses a JLG 800AJ articulating
boom lift for routine maintenance work
on the high-level rides at the park.
A platform height of up to 24.4m,
combined with the ability to articulate
the boom, enables maintenance
personnel to access and work on the
high-level twists and turns of the rides.
The machine’s four-wheel drive makes it
easy to move it around the park as well.
The 800AJ has an integral generator,
providing on-board electrical power for
tools and other equipment being used
from the boom’s platform. The integral
generator does away with trailing leads
that impede manoeuvrability.
A slightly smaller articulating
boom lift, a JLG 450AJ, is used by the
Enterprise plc, a contractor to the Royal
Parks, to hang Union Jacks on the flagpoles
at Buckingham Palace and down
the Mall for state occasions and royal
events.
The fully proportional controls (via
a dual axis joystick controller and a
thumb rocker switch for steering) provide
the precision required for smooth
operation and easy positioning in all
drive and lift functions, particularly
in challenging high-reach tasks. The
standard 1.8m all-steel platform lifts up
to 230kg, while the 760mm by 183mm
platform gives space for the two workers
and their large flags.
Thanks to A-Plant Powered Access,
Nationwide Access, Panther Platform
Rentals and The Platform Company
for their assistance with this article.
(Left to right)
A JLG 800AJ
articulating
boom lift has
the geometry to
access the high
twist and turns
of a rollercoaster
at Chessington
World of
Adventures;
a Genie S-85
telescopic
boom was used
to inspect the
chapel bell at
Marlborough
College; a 23m
telescopic
boom and two
scissors were
used to repair a
stranded jet in
the Dominican
Republic.
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COURSES
Staying
on course
Three new courses will soon be available
from selected IPAF training centres.
The first test IPAF training course for
telehandlers with integrated platforms
was successfully completed in August
2006. The first PAL Cards for the
Telehandler Platform – Integrated (TPI)
category were issued to two employees
of Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd.
“The course is aimed at experienced
and certified telehandler operators
who may need to operate access platform
attachments from within the
basket rather than from the cab of the
telehandler,” said Peter Grant of Merlo
UK. Grant chairs the IPAF Telehandler
Committee and has been working closely
with IPAF in developing this course.
Grant explained, “Basic working
platforms, without any controls, are
still widely in use in the UK, although
they are designated ‘inappropriate’
by the HSE for use on telehandlers
capable of lifting above 6m. Many
telehandler manufacturers now offer
fully integrated platform attachments,
complying with the requirements of EN
280. The telehandler/platform combination
becomes, in effect, a mobile
elevating work platform and requires
training additional to, and not covered
by, standard telehandler operating
courses.”
Authorities in countries throughout
Europe such as Switzerland, France
and Italy are increasingly restricting
the use of ‘dumb’ baskets in favour of
‘smart’ baskets with integrated controls.
The IPAF course will become available
worldwide.
The first one-day course, covering
theory and practical on-site training,
was given by Brian Parker of Peter Hird
Ltd, an IPAF senior instructor and member
of the IPAF Training Committee.
The two trainees, Alan Rae and Ryan
McCue, were able to test the telehandler
to its full lifting height of 25m at the
site with high-rise apartments.
“At first we thought there was too
much emphasis on the MEWP side of
things,” said veteran telehandler driver
Rae. “But after the practical training we
both now feel completely confident in
the machine – all the way up to the full
height.”
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HARNESSES
Strap yourself in
People are increasingly familiar with the demands of using
powered access, but when and how to wear harnesses and
lanyards remains something of a mystery. Paul Howard
investigates.
Strap yourself in. Or don’t. This is the
conundrum faced with increasing regularity
by those using powered access.
“There are a lot of people on site who
haven’t the slightest clue how best to use
harnesses,” says Rupert Douglas-Jones,
IPAF international training manager.
Help is at hand in the form of advice
developed by the Powered Access Interest
Group, a joint committee of IPAF and the
Construction Plant-hire Association,
with representatives from hire companies
and the Health & Safety Executive.
Should harnesses be used? The
answer, when it comes to booms, is
clearly yes. Reports from around the
world reveal a significant number of
accidents involving people falling out,
with various causes: booms working
at the side of roads being hit by passing
vehicles; machines being moved
while the boom is raised and hitting a
kerb/bump of some sort; even just the
jolting of unloading a boom from a
low-loader.
The common factor is the catapulting
effect of being in a basket a long way
from the machine’s centre of gravity, a
force which is not to be underestimated.
“I was conducting a test in a boom and
we went, deliberately, over a kerb,” says
Douglas-Jones. “Even though I knew it
Waist belts can cause severe internal damage, thus the
recommendation to use full-body harnesses.
was coming I couldn’t keep my feet on
the floor and I lost my mobile phone
from my pocket.”
The argument for wearing harnesses
on vertical lifting machines (scissor lifts
and vertical personnel platforms) is less
clear cut, however.
“First, by wearing a harness and
restricting your movement you can
create quite a large blindspot through
the platform itself and this can have its
own dangers,” Douglas-Jones explains.
“Second, the size of some decks on vertical
platforms means that if you did want
to be free to move over the whole area
while still wearing a harness you’d need
a very long lanyard. This could easily
become tangled, especially if there is
more than one person on board, again
leading to its own problems. Finally, if
you need to lean out, you’re using the
wrong machine.”
What to wear?
What sort of harness – and lanyard
– should be worn?
“Waist belts are banned for use in fall
arrest in the US because of the internal
damage they can cause, so use of a fullbody
harness is the recommendation,”
says Douglas-Jones.
There are two basic types of lanyards.
“Restraint lanyards
are the simplest option,
designed to stop you getting
into a position where you
can fall in the first place,”
says Douglas-Jones.
The second type, fall
arrest lanyards, come in
many shapes, sizes and
configurations. “You may
get a 2m lanyard for work
at 4m and think it’s fine but
if it’s got in-built shockabsorption
then you could
end up falling the length of
the lanyard, plus the length
it extends to slow your fall,
plus your own length – that
could easily be 5.5m and
you could have broken legs,
or worse,” he explains.
“What’s more, a shock-absorbing
section implies the harness/lanyard is
designed to be used for fall arrest which,
under the work at height hierarchy,
should be your last resort. Avoidance,
then restraint, then position, should
come first.”
“The most important thing to remember
is that the need for a fall protection
system will be the outcome of a
job-specific risk assessment undertaken
prior to work commencing. In certain
circumstances – most notably low-level
work over water with the associated
risk of drowning – this may override
the general advice to wear harnesses in
boom type platforms.
“We don’t recommend the use of
inertia devices, like those used in car
seat belts, because the mechanisms can
break. People should also know that lanyard
damage can seriously compromise
performance, especially abrasion. You’d
think nicks and cuts might be more serious,
but abrasion is the biggest risk and
it doesn’t take much. Also, you must be
very careful with the connectors you
use: karabiners, for example, must be
oriented the right way (longitudinally,
not laterally),” advises Douglas-Jones.
“Finally, don’t attach any harness or
lanyard to something outside the basket
of the boom – unless you want to be left
hanging around when your work mates
go home at the end of the day.”
■ See IPAF’s H1 leaflet on the use of
harnesses at www.ipaf.org.
A clean,
comfortable,
properly adjusted
harness can save
lives and is a
sign of a
professional,
skilled platform
operator.
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magazine is a
decal for use
in boom type
platforms,
which tells
the operator
to use a full
body harness.
Additional
copies from
www.ipaf.org.
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MAST CLIMBERS
MCWPs go
sky high
IPAF has revamped its mast climbing work platform
(MCWP) course to offer a consistent, international and
harmonised training programme that will make these
‘workshops in the sky’ even safer to use.
Mast climbing work platforms are a
form of automated, mechanised access
that allow efficient work on the façade
of buildings, where conventional scaffolding
may be uneconomical. Specialist
training is vital for safe operation and
IPAF’s mast climbing work platform
(MCWP) course has just been revised
and updated.
“Consistency is the key,” says
Cameron Reid, managing director of
SGB Mastclimbers and chairman of the
IPAF MCWP (UK & Ireland) Committee.
“When we first talked about updating
the course, the focus was on enhancing
competencies in the UK. But the larger
aim was to provide the same level of
training across the world in order to, in
the long run, reduce accidents and create
a safer industry.”
So what makes the new course different
from the old? The previous course
was developed at a time when MCWPs
were the new kid on the block in the
access industry.
“The old course was written by a
business, for a business,” says Reid. “It
was essentially an attempt to develop
training courses to enhance, in a
controlled environment, the user and
installer competencies within the UK
mast climbing industry, not the international
industry.”
Controlled standards
When MCWPs started appearing on
the market in the early 80s, there were
no harmonised control standards in
areas such as erection, dismantling,
service, induction, use, etc. Investors in
mast climbing work platforms treated
the product as a plant hire item rather
than a specialist contracting access
provision.
There were several accidents, often
as a result of insufficient health and
safety management and training. As a
result of the incidents and those who
then subsequently exited the industry,
the UK market was practically undeveloped
during the early 90s. There was
no British standard and no European
design standards – the product had no
status as such.
Set formats
Things started to change in 1998, with
the establishment of EN 1495, the
European design standard for MCWPs.
This basically requires all European
manufacturers to follow set formats
and calculations in the design of their
products. In 2002, BS 7981 Code of
practice for the installation, maintenance,
thorough examination and safe
use of MCWPs was published in order
to improve safety on site and to ensure
that industry standards were consistently
met. It was against this backdrop
that the original IPAF MCWP course
took shape—with the aim of providing
training to help the industry conform to
the code of practice.
“The old course covered all main
facets of the business and the responsibilities
set out in BS 7981,” says Reid.
“We wouldn’t have had to change the
course if it were to apply only to the UK.
The challenge comes when you try to
translate all that into French, Spanish,
Italian, German, etc.
“So the MCWP course was revised
to allow for local regulations to be
inserted with ease. The terminology was
internationalised – there are no specific
references to manufacturers or their
unique machine requirements. We have
presented the course as a best practice
guide, telling users to do something in
continued on page 34
The Manchester
Civil Justice
Centre
project, where
mastclimbers
were brought in
to help overcome
access and
manual handling
difficulties.
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“You can
count on one
hand the
amount of
reportable
incidents
that have been reported
to the HSE in the past
10 years. Can that be
said about many other
access industries?”
Cameron Reid
continued from page 33
a particular way. Each manufacturer
has its own specifics, but one MCWP
product is not vastly different from the
other, just like a Volkswagen Golf is not
entirely different from a Ford Focus. The
same safety measures apply.”
While the old course had six modules,
the new course now has 28 smaller,
bite-sized, simplistic modules that are
easy to deliver and assess. It is no more
and no less detailed than the previous
course, says Reid, but the new course
makes a clearer distinction between
two sets of skills: literacy and manual
dexterity.
Course categories
MCWP training covers the categories
Mobile Operator, Demonstrator, Installer
and Advanced Installer, each leading to
the award of an MCG-recognised PAL
Card (Powered Access Licence).
The advanced category takes the
installer beyond building and installing
machines. An advanced installer is
trained as a manager or supervisor, with
the ability to plan, to carry out a risk
assessment of a job, to compile method
statements and to configure special
arrangements, including special tie and
anchor specifications. He or she is also
trained to carry out thorough examinations
in accordance with LOLER,
the Lifting Operations and Lifting
Equipment Regulations 1998.
There is another category, User, which
does not require the issuing of a PAL
Card. This is essentially an induction
course that is conducted by a certified
demonstrator. Users, those who work on
MCWPs, are also not required to have
specific certification, other than a clear
understanding of the machine’s operating
controls.
“The demonstrator is the key
figure when MCWPs are used on
site,” says Reid. “He or she is the
appointed person on site who can
induct a user. You will typically find
more demonstrators on site than the
other categories. They are the people
who know the parameters of the
product, who ensure that they are
dismantled, serviced and used in the
proper way.
“Once a user is inducted, he or she
should have no problems operating the
up/down controls, being able to carry
out a pre-use check and understanding
AWPT leads on mastclimber safety
what procedures to follow in the case of
an emergency.”
Reid says: “My advice to site managers
is: no cowboys on site, conform to
local regulations and ensure that your
employees are competent and properly
trained under a certified and internationally
recognised training programme,
such as IPAF.
“You can count on one hand the
amount of reportable incidents that
have been reported to the HSE in the
past 10 years. Can that be said about
many other access industries? If everyone
followed the regulations, training
requirements and recommended
practices, this would be an even safer
worldwide industry.”
AWPT, IPAF’s North American subsidiary, has met with officials from the city
of Boston and the state of Massachusetts to review safety issues in the use of
MCWPs, following an accident that resulted in three deaths.
Kevin O’Shea of Mastclimbers LLC made a presentation to the Massachusetts
Chapter of the Association of General Contractors (AGC) in June 2006. O’Shea
is working with AWPT to spearhead the AWPT MCWP training programme in
North America. More than 140 delegates attended the talk, including legal and
safety experts, access specialists and safety directors from major companies
such as Bovis Lend Lease, Lee Kennedy and Skanska.
Three key points emerged from the discussion:
1. Although a design standard for MCWPs is currently being re-drafted in
the US, there is no specific regulation for ‘Installation, Maintenance, Thorough
Examination and Safe Use’ as there is in Europe.
2. There is no independent assessment, policing and verification of operator
skills.
3. There is a lack of accountability throughout the supply chain.
An analysis of MCWP incidents around the world in the past 10 years shows
that most probably could not have been prevented by inspection. Human error
during use, erection/dismantling and risk assessment is a far more likely cause.
Only through proper training can most accidents be avoided.
Trainees are
put through
their paces
on an MCWP
training
course.
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MEWPS
MEWPs for managers:
Are you in control?
The Work at Height Regulations are making managers think
about how mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) are being
used on site. Peter Read reports on IPAF’s MEWPs for Managers
training course, which aims to produce competent managers.
According to Tim Whiteman, IPAF’s
managing director, the Work at Height
Regulations 2005 (WAHRs) have been an
important catalyst for rolling out IPAF’s
new MEWPs for Managers course.
“Since the WAHRs came out last year,
site managers have been asking us what
they need to do when they have MEWPs
on site, and asking our training centres
what we’re providing. They know that
falling from height is one of the biggest
killers in the work place and correct use
of MEWPs is a good way to prevent
falls,” says Whiteman.
The WAHRs, which consolidate previous
legislation, have emphasised the
importance of managers making sure that
all work at height is planned, organised
and carried out by competent people.
IPAF’s course was developed with
extensive input from Chris Buisseret,
training manager at Rapid Platforms
and vice-chairman of the IPAF Training
Committee. Rapid Platforms has been
running a managers course for four
years. This will now be replaced by the
IPAF course, which incorporates additional
input from other training centres.
Buisseret realised there was a need
for a manager training course from
feedback he received when explaining
relevant legislation to IPAF course
trainees. “It was clear that managers
didn’t know the necessary legislation
because it hadn’t got down to operator
level.”
But Buisseret says that the manager
course is about much more than just
legislation. “We cover everything a
manager should know about planning,
selecting, preparing for - not only in
terms of paperwork, but also logistics -
the use of MEWPs. This includes looking
at the various types of MEWPs available,
what they are best suited for, and
what sort of loads they can lift.”
The course enables a manager to
know what type of MEWP each of his
workers is trained to operate. “Managers
need to realise that operating a MEWP is
more complicated than simply signing
a hire form and cracking on with the
job. Managers are wrong to think that
if you are competent at operating one
MEWP, you are competent at operating
all MEWPs.”
To counter this, Rapid Platforms,
during their managers course, set up
a whole range of equipment in their
depot: scissor lifts, cherry pickers, vertical
personnel platforms, spider type
machines.
Each of the machines is manned by
one of the company’s operators. “They
put the harnesses on the manager candidate,
put him in the platform, and then
our operators say: ‘There you are sir,
away you go.’ And the bloke would inevitably
say: ‘Well hang on, this is bloody
complex’. And we answer: ‘Exactly. So
please have that understanding with
your operator. Don’t expect him to jump
on an unfamiliar machine and use it
straight away. Simply ensure he receives
a formal demonstration when a machine
is delivered’.”
Site surveys
The course also has a module on site
surveys: “Managers are often unaware
that if you have a tricky situation, a hire
company can do a site survey and then
advise on the best MEWP for the job.”
Risk assessment is another large part
of the course – the WAHRs are based on
a risk assessment approach. “While the
Provision and Use of Work Equipment
Regulations 1998 (PUWER) say that
supervisors and managers must receive
adequate training in usage and identifying
risks, it is very, very rare that any
managers go on an IPAF Operators
course.”
Yet the WAHRs say that every job at
height needs to be properly planned by
a competent person. “That person has to
ask the right questions not only in their
planning, but in their risk assessment.
And if you don’t know the risks associated
with using a bit of equipment, how
on earth are you going to write a valid
risk assessment?” asks Buisseret.
Emergency and rescue is also well
covered in the course. “The WAHRs have
made it much clearer than previous legislation
about the importance of having
a contingency plan for emergencies and
rescue. What do you do if a machine
breaks down with a man up in the air?
The contingency must be an in-built
part of the job,” he adds.
Typically this would include a nominated
person on the ground, passing by
every quarter of an hour, keeping an eye
on the operator in the air. Should the
nominated person see anything wrong,
he or she will have been trained to use
the ground control panel of the machine
and the emergency descent system
of the machine. “It’s all basic stuff,
including summoning medical help and
letting the employer and site manager
know that there’s been an accident,”
says Buisseret.
IPAF’s MEWPs for Managers
training course
The MEWPs for
Managers course
lasts one day and
is available from
selected IPAF
training centres –
find your nearest
at www.ipaf.org.
Aim
To produce managers competent in preparing and safely
co-ordinating the various types of MEWPs within their
control.
Syllabus includes:
1. Heath and Safety regulations
2. MEWP usage regulations
3. Accident prevention and control
4. Personal protection needs of the operator
5. Importance of the machine’s operating manual
6. Implications of a hire contract
7. Need for the operator to be familiarised with the machine
8. Pre-use and daily maintenance of machines
36 IPAF POWERED ACCESS REVIEW 2007

MEWPS
MEWPs for managers:
Are you in control?
The Work at Height Regulations are making managers think
about how mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) are being
used on site. Peter Read reports on IPAF’s MEWPs for Managers
training course, which aims to produce competent managers.
According to Tim Whiteman, IPAF’s
managing director, the Work at Height
Regulations 2005 (WAHRs) have been an
important catalyst for rolling out IPAF’s
new MEWPs for Managers course.
“Since the WAHRs came out last year,
site managers have been asking us what
they need to do when they have MEWPs
on site, and asking our training centres
what we’re providing. They know that
falling from height is one of the biggest
killers in the work place and correct use
of MEWPs is a good way to prevent
falls,” says Whiteman.
The WAHRs, which consolidate previous
legislation, have emphasised the
importance of managers making sure that
all work at height is planned, organised
and carried out by competent people.
IPAF’s course was developed with
extensive input from Chris Buisseret,
training manager at Rapid Platforms
and vice-chairman of the IPAF Training
Committee. Rapid Platforms has been
running a managers course for four
years. This will now be replaced by the
IPAF course, which incorporates additional
input from other training centres.
Buisseret realised there was a need
for a manager training course from
feedback he received when explaining
relevant legislation to IPAF course
trainees. “It was clear that managers
didn’t know the necessary legislation
because it hadn’t got down to operator
level.”
But Buisseret says that the manager
course is about much more than just
legislation. “We cover everything a
manager should know about planning,
selecting, preparing for - not only in
terms of paperwork, but also logistics -
the use of MEWPs. This includes looking
at the various types of MEWPs available,
what they are best suited for, and
what sort of loads they can lift.”
The course enables a manager to
know what type of MEWP each of his
workers is trained to operate. “Managers
need to realise that operating a MEWP is
more complicated than simply signing
a hire form and cracking on with the
job. Managers are wrong to think that
if you are competent at operating one
MEWP, you are competent at operating
all MEWPs.”
To counter this, Rapid Platforms,
during their managers course, set up
a whole range of equipment in their
depot: scissor lifts, cherry pickers, vertical
personnel platforms, spider type
machines.
Each of the machines is manned by
one of the company’s operators. “They
put the harnesses on the manager candidate,
put him in the platform, and then
our operators say: ‘There you are sir,
away you go.’ And the bloke would inevitably
say: ‘Well hang on, this is bloody
complex’. And we answer: ‘Exactly. So
please have that understanding with
your operator. Don’t expect him to jump
on an unfamiliar machine and use it
straight away. Simply ensure he receives
a formal demonstration when a machine
is delivered’.”
Site surveys
The course also has a module on site
surveys: “Managers are often unaware
that if you have a tricky situation, a hire
company can do a site survey and then
advise on the best MEWP for the job.”
Risk assessment is another large part
of the course – the WAHRs are based on
a risk assessment approach. “While the
Provision and Use of Work Equipment
Regulations 1998 (PUWER) say that
supervisors and managers must receive
adequate training in usage and identifying
risks, it is very, very rare that any
managers go on an IPAF Operators
course.”
Yet the WAHRs say that every job at
height needs to be properly planned by
a competent person. “That person has to
ask the right questions not only in their
planning, but in their risk assessment.
And if you don’t know the risks associated
with using a bit of equipment, how
on earth are you going to write a valid
risk assessment?” asks Buisseret.
Emergency and rescue is also well
covered in the course. “The WAHRs have
made it much clearer than previous legislation
about the importance of having
a contingency plan for emergencies and
rescue. What do you do if a machine
breaks down with a man up in the air?
The contingency must be an in-built
part of the job,” he adds.
Typically this would include a nominated
person on the ground, passing by
every quarter of an hour, keeping an eye
on the operator in the air. Should the
nominated person see anything wrong,
he or she will have been trained to use
the ground control panel of the machine
and the emergency descent system
of the machine. “It’s all basic stuff,
including summoning medical help and
letting the employer and site manager
know that there’s been an accident,”
says Buisseret.
IPAF’s MEWPs for Managers
training course
The MEWPs for
Managers course
lasts one day and
is available from
selected IPAF
training centres –
find your nearest
at www.ipaf.org.
Aim
To produce managers competent in preparing and safely
co-ordinating the various types of MEWPs within their
control.
Syllabus includes:
1. Heath and Safety regulations
2. MEWP usage regulations
3. Accident prevention and control
4. Personal protection needs of the operator
5. Importance of the machine’s operating manual
6. Implications of a hire contract
7. Need for the operator to be familiarised with the machine
8. Pre-use and daily maintenance of machines
36 IPAF POWERED ACCESS REVIEW 2007

MEMBER BENEFITS
Why it makes sense
to join IPAF
Hundreds of members across five continents will testify
that becoming a member of IPAF makes sound commercial
sense. So what are the benefits of joining?
IPAF is known as an agent for promoting
best practice, giving its members a
voice in the powered access world. IPAF
members now enjoy access to a growing
portfolio of services and there has never
been a better time to join.
There was a time when the Working
Group of the European Machinery
Directive Committee was considering
a ban on sliding mid-rails. IPAF represented
the views of manufacturers
and users on what was essentially a
non-issue. It urged all members, in the
interest of safety, not to tie up sliding
mid-rails. IPAF manufacturer members
placed decals on machines indicating
that mid-rails should never be tied up.
The regulators relented, agreed to monitor
the situation, and manufacturers
were saved from having to implement
restrictive controls on equipment.
This is just one example of the lobbying
work that IPAF undertakes to
support the interests of its members.
IPAF actively participates in the ongoing
review of EN 280, the standard
regulating the design and manufacture
of platforms.
It works with several standards committees,
including ISO, FEM (European
Federation of Materials Handling and
Storage Equipment), the British standards
committees BS 8454 and BS 8460.
It also co-operates with safety bodies
around the world, such as the HSE in
Britain, Berufsgenossenschaften in
Germany, Suva in Switzerland, OPPBTP
in France, and ANSI and OSHA in the
United States.
IPAF communicates with its members
through diverse publications and
events. Members receive free copies
of the official IPAF magazine Access
International, the IPAF bulletin Raising
the Standard, as well as regular e-
newsletters. The IPAF AGM and Access
Summit is an annual highlight in the
powered access industry, bringing
together customers, competitors, suppliers
and interest groups. Other key events
include the Professional Development
Seminar (for instructors), TABS (the
German language platform safety conference),
the Convention of the Italian
Powered Access Industry and the APS
(Aerial Platform Safety Conference).
IPAF members benefit from a growing
portfolio of services specially tailored
for the access industry. Each service can
be accessed by quoting the company
name and IPAF membership number.
Legal advice
IPAF members needing legal advice on
matters such as MEWP use (on and off
the public highway) and accident procedures
can call the IPAF hotline during
normal office hours.
Business information
The broader-based Business Information
Service from the Institute of Directors
(IoD) in London is free to IPAF members
and offers up to 30 minutes of desk
research by experienced professionals.
Some questions that the Service has
helped IPAF members to answer are:
■ Do you have statistics on the number
of accidents at work?
■ I need to find the contact details
of building maintenance contractors
within London and the South East.
■ Can you supply details of tree surgeons
based in the South West?
Insurance
Henderson Insurance Brokers provide
IPAF members with the commercial
advantage of market leading cover at
reduced premiums. The range of cover
provided includes:
■ Employers and public liability
■ Plant – all risks
■ Motor fleet
■ Engineering
■ Professional indemnity
■ Directors & officers
Insurance management
IPAF members enjoy free access to
ClaimControl, offered in co-operation
with Alphatec Software. This is an
online risk management system that
helps cut insurance costs and simplify
procedures for incidents and claims.
Rental management software
IPAF members can get a 10% discount
on rental management software from
inspHire. This world-leading supplier
offers comprehensive, simple-to-use
software to track equipment and
streamline customer service.
Translation
ToLocalise offers IPAF members preferential
rates, with savings up to 60%, on
translation of all documents from technical
manuals to marketing literature.
Market overview guides
IPAF members enjoy special prices when
purchasing guides from Lectura that
offer an overview and valuation of all
common second-hand mobile construction
machines on the European market.
Details on member benefits, the
IPAF Code of Conduct and how to
join are at the Services section of
www.ipaf.org
Timely
information from
the Institute of
Directors gives
IPAF members a
competitive edge.
38 IPAF POWERED ACCESS REVIEW 2007

INTERNATIONAL
Experts on hand with
life-saving tips at TABS
More than 120 delegates attended
TABS, the first German-language event
dedicated to platform safety, jointly
organised by IPAF and the Vertikal
Verlag in June 2006.
The conference saw a significant
number of representatives from safety
bodies attending, such as the German
Berufsgenossenschaften and the Swiss
Suva.
The event ended with a demonstration
of a new prototype: a parachute
LISTEN AND LEARN: Mauro Potrich of CTE
addresses instructors at the first Italian Professional
Development Seminar held in Bologna in June 2006.
The event saw full attendance from the Italianlanguage
training centres.
Strengthening the
French connection
IPAF and the Organisme
Professionnel de Prévention
du Bâtiment et des Travaux
Publics (OPPBTP) are cooperating
and exchanging
information with the aim of
reducing accidents related to
work at height.
OPPBTP is the official
French government body for
accident prevention in the
construction industry.
The link-up was made at
the Intermat show in Paris,
where OPPBTP filmed an
interview with IPAF managing
director Tim Whiteman,
Bernard Volut of IPAF-
France, and two OPPBTP
safety engineers, Patrice
Devaux and Patrick Moutel.
The IPAF Intermat demo
zone was also host to several
delegations, who were
briefed on PAL Card train-
The IPAF zone focused on the
right equipment used properly.
ing. This included about 50
delegates from the Syndicat
des Entrepreneurs d’Ile de
France (a Paris regional
branch of the FFB, Federation
Française du Bâtiment, the
French National Federation
for the Building Industry) and
a group of company directors
from the Fédération Nationale
des Sociétés Co-opératives du
BTP (the French Federation of
Co-operative Companies for
the Construction Industry).
system designed, on the one hand, as
a harness to protect against accidental
exit from a platform, and on the other
hand, to enable an alternative form
of escape from a platform in case of a
tip-over.
“Responses from the delegates were
positive – TABS will be an annual
event,” said Reinhard Willenbrock of
IPAF-Deutschland. “I’m sure the delegates
took home valuable information
on platform use that will save lives.”
Deutsch?
Ja wohl!
A German language edition of the IPAF
Powered Access Review is now available.
The IPAF-Journal is published in
April each year by VDBUM, the German
association of machine engineers.
Building on the success of the English
original, the IPAF-Journal carries
articles on legal responsibilities in the
use of platforms, training, machine
inspection, plus a full training centre
directory. Free copies can be obtained
by e-mailing basel@ipaf.org or can be
downloaded from www.ipaf.org.
IPAF and Assodimi/Assonolo, the Italian
rental and distributors association, have
signed an agreement to promote safety
and best practice in the industry.
Under the agreement, Assodimi helps
promote the IPAF platform operator
training programme and is working
with IPAF to develop the IPAF Rental+
audit service in Italy.
Gerhard Hillebrand of IPAF-Italia said:
“Assonolo represents 60% of the Italian
rental industry and Assodimi has more
than 450 members. Both our organisations
will be able to tap the benefits of
this reciprocal co-operation.”
The co-operation agreement was
signed during Intermat 2006 and
witnessed by the European Rental
A prototype of Thomas Sawitzky’s
parachute system to enable escape from
an endangered platform.
Assodimi and IPAF join forces
Joining hands for best practice (from left to
right): Franco De Michelis, MD of Assodimi;
Gerhard Hillebrand of IPAF-Italia; Gerard
Deprez, president of ERA and CEO of
Loxam; and Tim Whiteman, MD of IPAF.
Association (ERA), represented by
President Gerard Deprez.
AWPT adds value to aerial platform conference
AWPT, IPAF’s North American subsidiary,
co-sponsored the Aerial Platform Safety
Conference & Expo in October 2006.
AWPT operator and instructor training
for scissor lifts and self-propelled
booms was provided by Skyjack at the
event site in Houston, Texas.
AWPT vice-president Dennis Eckstine
moderated the session on technical
innovations to improve aerial equipment
safety. IPAF international training
manager Rupert Douglas-Jones looked at
the correct selection and proper use of fall
protection equipment on aerial platforms.
IPAF POWERED ACCESS REVIEW 2007
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IPAF TRAINING DIRECTORY
IPAF training is provided by a network of approved training centres that operate independently. This directory
helps you find your nearest training centre in the UK and around the world. New centres are being added
every month. To see the most up-to-date list, visit www.ipaf.org
Training centres are regularly audited by IPAF. Audits are split into annual surveillance visits and unannounced
visits. The IPAF auditing team comprises independent, quality assurance professionals who have experience
in the access industry. Audits are seen as a way of providing guidance, enabling the training centres to deliver
training to high standards on a consistent basis around the world.
East Anglia
Access Platform Sales Ltd
Huntingdon
Contact: G Borrett
Tel: 01480 891251
Fax: 01480 891162
training@accessplatforms.co.uk
www.accessplatforms.co.uk
Accesscess
Training
Access Training UK
Thetford
Contat: Amanda Dixon
Tel: 01842 879999
Fax: 01842 879111
atuk@access-training.co.uk
www.access-training.co.uk
Contact: George R M Reid
Tel: 0870 350 3601
Fax: 0870 350 3602
info@kingfisher.co.uk
www.kingfisheraccess.co.uk
Nationwide Access Ltd
Peterborough
Contact: Mike Ripton
Tel: 08456 011032
Fax: 0116 2869038
training@nationwideaccess.co.uk
www.nationwideaccess.co.uk
info@britanniaITS.com
www.britanniaITS.com
The Platform Company Ltd
Barking
Contact: Michelle Beak
Tel: 01628 559977
Fax: 01628 666484
m.beak@platformcompany.co.uk
www.platformcompany.co.uk
Universal Aerial Platforms Training Division
Basildon
Contact: Robert Gray
Tel: 01268 282200
Fax: 01268 526306
wendyjupp@universalplatforms.com
www.universalplatforms.com
IPAF TRAINING CENTRES
Alan Drew Ltd
Watford
Contact: Nick Manners
Tel: 01923 817933
Fax: 01923 237824
watford@access-equipment.co.uk
www.access-equipment.co.uk
CITB-ConstructionSkills (Head Office)
Kings Lynn
Contact: Terry Carver
Tel: 01485 577577
Fax: 01485 577776
nationalconstruction.college@citb.co.uk
www.citb.co.uk
Citycare Ltd
Norwich
Contact: Paul Jowsey
Tel: 01603 496727
Fax: 01603 496770
jowseyp@citycare.co.uk
www.citycare.co.uk
Hewden Stuart PLC
Luton
Contact: Kathryn Brookes
Tel: 01925 860826
Fax: 01925 269708
kathryn.brookes@hewden.co.uk
www.hewden.co.uk
HSS Hire Service Group Ltd
Peterborough
Contact: Training Administration
Tel: 0845 7667799
Fax: 0161 8779074
training@hss.co.uk
www.hss.co.uk
Kingfisher Access Services
Upminster
Panther Platform Rentals Ltd
Luton
Contact:Arwel Roberts
Tel: 01582 578070
Fax: 01582 578080
training@panther.uk.com
www.platform-rentals.co.uk
Powered Access Training Services Ltd
Hemel Hempstead
Contact: Matthew Phillips
Tel: 0845 077 1111
Fax: 0845 077 2227
mattroyphillips@aol.com
Rapid Platforms
Bishop’s Stortford
Contact: Chris Buisseret
Tel: 01279 501501
Fax: 01279 501100
chris@rapidplatforms.co.uk
www.rapidplatforms.co.uk
Rise Hire (A div. of Hoperole Ltd)
Over
Contact: Terry A Griffin
Tel: 0870 7774070
Fax: 0870 7774072
info@risehire.co.uk
www.risehire.co.uk
Sigma Access
Bungay
Contact: Phil Scott
Tel: 01986 896948
Fax: 01986 896948
sigma.access@btinternet.com
www.sigma-access-training.co.uk
Specialist Access Training Ltd
Wymondham
Contact: Colin Wright
Tel: 01953 606100
Fax: 01953 606116
East Midlands
A Plant - Ashtead Plant Hire
Nottingham/
Northampton
Contact:Richard Steele
Tel: 0845 6008573
Fax: 0129 3517321
accesstrainingcentre@aplant.com
www.aplant.com
Alimak Hek Ltd (mastclimbing only)
Rushden
Contact: Adrian Bolton
Tel: 01933 354 700
Fax: 01933 410 600
adrian.bolton@alimakhek.co.uk
www.alimakhek.co.uk
Altitude Access Ltd
Mansfield
Contact: W Thompson
Tel: 01623 796969
Fax: 01623 793008
info@altitudeaccess.co.uk
www.altitudeaccess.co.uk
Central Access Ltd
Nottingham
Contact: Peter Eggleston
Tel: 01623 750500
Fax: 01623 750400
info@central-access.co.uk
www.central-access.com
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Euro Towers Ltd
Spinney
Contact: Jason Woods
Tel: 01604 644774
Fax: 01604 499544
enquiries@eurotowers.co.uk
www.eurotowers.co.uk
Genie Europe
Grantham
Contact:John Liposits
Tel: 01476 584348
Fax: 01476 584350
genieuktraining@genieind.com
www.genieindustries.com
HSS Hire Service Group Ltd
Daventry/Derby
Contact: Training Administration
Tel: 0845 7667799
Fax: 0161 8779074
training@hss.co.uk
www.hss.co.uk
Loxam Access Ltd
Alfreton
Contact: Diane Robinson
Tel: 01773 835511
Fax: 01773 831699
drobinson@loxam-access.co.uk
www.loxam-access.co.uk
UK Training Services Ltd
Wednesbury
Contact: David Booth
Tel: 01226 786816
Fax: 01226 786737
davidbooth@ukpaltforms.co.uk
www.ukplatforms.com
Versalift Distributors (UK) Ltd
Burton Latimer
Contact: David Richards
Tel: 01536 721010
Fax: 01536 721111
admin@versalift.co.uk
www.versalift.co.uk
Greater London
Charles Wilson Engineers Ltd
Hayes
Contact: Richard Stoner
Tel: 0208 7566310
Fax: 0208 8484064
training@cwplant.co.uk
www.cwplant.co.uk
Hi-Reach Training
Highworth
Contact: Ken Phillips
Tel: 01793 766755
Fax: 01793 763503
ken@hi-reach.co.uk
www.hi-reach.co.uk
HSS Hire Service Group Ltd
London
Contact: Training Administration
Tel: 0845 7667799
Fax: 0161 8779074
training@hss.co.uk
www.hss.co.uk
Kingfisher Access Services
London
Contact: George R M Reid
Tel: 0870 3503601
Fax: 0870 3503602
info@kingfisher.co.uk
www.kingfisheraccess.co.uk
The Platform Company Ltd
Hounslow
Contact: Michelle Beak
Tel: 01628 559977
Fax: 01628 666484
m.beak@platformcompany.co.uk
www.platformcompany.co.uk
North East
AFI Aerial Platforms Ltd
Eccles/Darlington
Contact: Paul Maxwell
Tel: 0870 755 0059
Fax: 0870 066 4155
info@afi-platforms.co.uk
www.afi-platforms.co.uk
E S Access Platforms
Birtley
Contact: Keith Hunwick
Tel: 0191 4104863
Fax: 0191 4920825
enquiries@esaccess.co.uk
www.esaccess.co.uk
Hewden Stuart PLC
Rotherham
Contact: Kathryn Brookes
Tel: 01925 860826
Fax: 01925 269708
kathryn.brookes@hewden.co.uk
www.hewden.co.uk
HSS Hire Service Group Ltd
Trafford Park
Contact: Training Administration
Tel: 0845 766 7799
Fax: 0161 877 9074
training@hss.co.uk
www.hss.co.uk
North East Access Ltd
Hebburn
Contact: Malcolm Hession
Tel: 0191 442 1503
Fax: 0191 483 9707
malhession@amserve.com
www.northeastaccess.com
Sovereign Access Services Ltd (mastclimbing only)
Jarrow
Contact: W S Murdoch
Tel: 0191 428 0302
Fax: 0191 483 4796
info@sovereign-access.co.uk
Taylor Training Services (UK) Ltd
Jarrow
Contact: Alan Taylor
Tel: 0161 775 9840
Fax: 0161 775 9840
ataylortraining@aol.com
The Platform Company Ltd
Kirkby
Contact: Michelle Beak
Tel: 01628 559977
Fax: 01628 666484
m.beak@platformcompany.co.uk
www.platformcompany.co.uk
North West
A Plant - Ashtead Plant Hire
Manchester
Contact: Richard Steele
Tel: 0845 6008573
Fax: 0129 3517321
accesstrainingcentre@aplant.com
www.aplant.com
Adept Training Services Ltd
Chester
Contact: Peter Ives
Tel: 01244 351809
peteives@hotmail.com
AFI Aerial Platforms Ltd
Liverpool
Contact: Paul Maxwell
Tel: 0870 755 0059
Fax: 0870 066 4155
info@afi-platforms.co.uk
www.afi-platforms.co.uk
Alliance Learning Ltd
Bolton
Contact: Karen Wolsenden
Tel: 01204 677800
Fax: 01204 669217
info@alliancelearning.com
www.alliancelearning.com
Astley Hire Ltd
Leigh
Contact: Michael Dorricott
Tel: 01942 607799
Fax: 01942 675060
michael@astleyhire.co.uk
www.astleyhire.co.uk
EMCOR Engineering Services
Old Trafford
Contact: Sean Black
Tel: 0161 874 4800
Fax: 0161 874 4900
sean.black@emcoruk.com
www.emcoruk.com
Hewden Stuart PLC
Washington
Contact: Kathryn Brookes
Tel: 01925 860826
Fax: 01925 269708
kathryn.brookes@hewden.co.uk
www.hewden.co.uk
Highland Access Ltd
Trafford Park
Contact: Judy Cohen
Tel: 0161 8778908
Fax: 0161 8721800
info@highlandaccess.co.uk
www.highlandaccess.co.uk
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HSS Hire Service Group Ltd
Leeds/Whitby/Bristol
Contact: Training Administration
Tel: 0845 7667799
Fax: 0161 8779074
training@hss.co.uk
www.hss.co.uk
JLG Industries (UK) Ltd
Middleton
Contact: Edward Price
Tel: 0870 2007700
Fax: 0870 2007711
eprice@jlg.com
www.jlg.com
Maxima Training Ltd
Leigh
Contact: Andrew Clarke
Tel: 07814 760339
Fax: 01942 605647
info@maxima-training.co.uk
www.maxima-training.co.uk
Nationwide Access Ltd
Manchester
Contact: Mike Ripton
Tel: 08456 011032
Fax: 0116 2869038
training@nationwideaccess.co.uk
www.nationwideaccess.co.uk
Steelcraft Erection
Services Ltd
Bolton
Contact: Vince Mulvanny
Tel: 01204 699999
Fax: 01204 694543
vince.mulvanny@watsonsteel.co.uk
System Group Ltd
Carlisle
Contact: Gordon Hastings
Tel: 01228 574010
Fax: 01228 574011
amanda.hall@system-group.com
www.system-group.com
Taylor Training Services (UK) Ltd
Wigan
Contact: AlanTaylor
Tel: 0161 7759840
Fax: 0161 7759840
ataylortraining@aol.com
The Platform Company Ltd
Normanton
Contact: Michelle Beak
Tel: 01628 559977
Fax: 01628 666484
m.beak@platformcompany.co.uk
www.platformcompany.co.uk
Train Rite Ltd
Workington
Contact: John Caffrey
Tel: 01900 68040
Fax: 01900 68045
trainrite@aol.com
UK Training Services Ltd
Salford
Contact: David Booth
Tel: 01226 786816
Fax: 01226 786737
davidbooth@ukpaltforms.co.uk
www.ukplatforms.com
Northern Ireland
EasiUpLifts (Safety Training) Ltd
Newtownabbey
Contact: Frances McArdle
Tel: 0289 0833753
Fax: 0289 0830641
michelle.pentony@heightforhire.ie
www.easiuplifts.com
Highway Plant Co Ltd
Belfast
Contact: Julie Smyth
Tel: 028 9030 1133
Fax: 028 9062 5764
info@highwayplant.com
www.highwayplant.com
HSS Hire Service Group Ltd
Belfast
Contact: Training Administration
Tel: 0845 7667799
Fax: 0161 8779074
training@hss.co.uk
www.hss.co.uk
Scotland
1st Platform Rentals Ltd
Motherwell
Contact: David Evans
Tel: 01698 738040
Fax: 01698 834573
davidevans@1accessrentals.co.uk
www.1accessrentals.co.uk
A Plant - Ashtead Plant Hire
Aberdeen
Contact: Richard Steele
Tel: 0845 6008573
Fax: 0129 3517321
accesstrainingcentre@aplant.com
www.aplant.com
Access Plus (Scotland) Ltd
Stevenston
Contact: George Marriott, Snr
Tel: 01294 466611
Fax: 01294 466633
sales@access-plus.co.uk
www.access-plus.co.uk
Active Rentals Ltd
Hamilton
Contact: Andrew McCusker
Tel: 01698 281190
Fax: 01698 281735
andrew@activesafetytraining.co.uk
www.activerentals.co.uk
AMEC Building & Facilities
Services Ltd
Glasgow
Contact: Dougie Bond
Tel: 0141 221 3866
Fax: 0141 241 4250
dougie.bond@amec.com
www.amec.com
Brogan Access
T/a William Laird
Motherwell
Contact: Stephen Elgie
Tel: 01698 249249
Fax: 01698 249385
enquiries@broganaccess.co.uk
www.broganaccess.co.uk
CITB-ConstructionSkills
Hillington
Contact: John Shepherd
Tel: 01322 349638
Fax: 01322 332358
john.shepherd@citb.co.uk
www.citb.co.uk
FES Ltd
Stirling
Contact: George Hamilton
Tel: 01786 819600
Fax: 01786 811456
ghamilton@fes.ltd.uk
www.fes.ltd.uk
Generation Hire & Sale
Rutherglen
Contact: Mandy Netherwood
Tel: 01924 370640
Fax: 01924 377530
mandy.netherwood@generationuk.co.uk
www.generationhireandsale.co.uk/
Height for Hire Ltd (Safety Training)
Bellshill
Contact: Michelle Pentony
Tel: 00 353 1835 4900
Fax: 00 353 1835 4901
michelle.pentony@heightforhire.ie
www.heightforhire.ie
HSS Hire Service Group Ltd
Castletown
Falkirk
Contact: Training Administration
Tel: 0845 7667799
Fax: 0161 8779074
training@hss.co.uk
www.hss.co.uk
Hugh Simpson Contractors Ltd
Wick
Contact: Hugh Simpson
Tel: 01955 604444
Fax: 01955 602316
enquiries@simpsonoils.co.uk
www.hughsimpson.co.uk
Industrial Access Systems Ltd
Glasgow
Contact: John Wilson
Tel: 0141 563 4110
Fax: 0141 560 6523
ind.access@hotmail.co.uk
www.deskspan.co.uk
Instant Training Ltd
Carmyle
Contact: A D Jennings
Tel: 01952 815750
Fax: 01952 815758
hdillon@instant-training.com
www.instant-training.com
J & D Pierce (Contracts) Ltd
Glengarnock
Contact: Bill Harvey
Tel: 01505 683724
Fax: 01505 684810
bharvey@jdpierce.co.uk
www.jdpierce.co.uk
JLG Industries (UK) Ltd
Uddingston
Contact: Edward Price
Tel: 0161 654 1010
Fax: 0161 654 1003
eprice@jlg.com
www.jlg.com
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LAS Training
Inverness
Contact: Paul Gleisner
Tel: 01463 248126
Fax: 01463 712756
paulg@lasplant.co.uk
www.lasplant.co.uk
Martin Plant Hire
Motherwell
Contact: Gail Hughes
Tel: 0870 8536100
Fax: 0870 8536099
gailhughes457@hotmail.com
Nationwide Access Ltd
Wednesbury
Contact: Mike Ripton
Tel: 08456 011032
Fax: 0116 2869038
training@nationwideaccess.co.uk
www.nationwideaccess.co.uk
Turner Access Ltd
Glasgow
Contact: Karen O’Neill
Tel: 0141 3095555
Fax: 0141 3095436
evelyn.rock@turner-access.co.uk
www.turner-access.co.uk
South East
CITB-ConstructionSkills
Erith
Contact: Gary Derrick
Tel: 0121 4594262
Fax: 0121 4598330
gail.clarke@citb.co.uk
www.citb.co.uk
Facelift Access Hire
Hickstead
Contact: Jane Lawrence
Tel: 01444 881166
Fax: 01444 882522
jlawrence@facelift.co.uk
www.facelift.co.uk
Niftylift Ltd
Milton Keynes
Contact: Roland Bignall
Tel: 01908 223456
Fax: 01908 312733
rbignall@niftylift.com
www.niftylift.com
Operator Training Services Ltd
Ashford
Contact: Raymond Whibley
Tel: 0870 8503029
Fax: 01233 721303
training@o-t-s.co.uk
Orion Access Services Ltd
Erith
Contact: Paul Page-Mitchell
Tel: 01322 348843
Fax: 01322 348848
orion@cleaning-services.freeserve.co.uk
www.orionaccess-services.co.uk
SGB UK Powered Access
Lingfield
Contact: Fiona Hair
Tel: 0141 7631333
Fax: 0141 7786730
fhair@sgb.co.uk
www.sgb.co.uk
Outreach Ltd
Falkirk
Contact: Gary Potts
Tel: 01324 889000
Fax: 01324 888901
randerson@outreach.plc.uk
www.outreach.plc.uk
Pace Training Consultancy
Glasgow
Contact: Alex Donald
Tel: 0141 7621835
Fax: 0141 8829949
pacetraininguk@aol.com
Plantfinder (Scotland) Ltd
Kilmarnock
Contact: Cameron Wilson
Tel: 01563 850060
Fax: 01563 850936
sales@plantfinderlimited.co.uk
www.plantfinderlimited.co.uk
Powered Access UK Ltd
Blantyre
Contact: Lee Munro
Tel: 01698 820300
Fax: 01698 829988
lee@poweredaccess.co.uk
Samuel Walker & Sons Ltd
Glasgow
Contact: Neil Vaughan
Tel: 0161 2308713
Fax: 0161 2318430
smclaughlin@samwalker.com
www.samwalker.com
Scottish Access Services
Stepps
Contact: Gerard Leckie
Tel: 01236 435942
Fax: 01236 435942
gerry@scotaccess.wanadoo.uk
Fenton Plant Hire
Reading
Contact: David McAteer
Tel: 0118 9303066
Fax: 0118 9303411
reading@fentonplant.co.uk
www.fentonplant.co.uk
Gamble Training Services
Guildford/Worthing
Contact: Philip Gamble
Tel: 07850 463222
Fax: 01903 239088
philip@gamblegroup.co.uk
www.gamble-jarvis.co.uk
Hewden Stuart PLC
Erith/Dartford
Contact: Kathryn Brookes
Tel: 01925 860826
Fax: 01925 269708
kathryn.brookes@hewden.co.uk
www.hewden.co.uk
Highland Access Ltd
New Alresford
Contact: Judy Cohen
Tel:162 8778908
Fax:162 8721800
info@highlandaccess.co.uk
www.highlandaccess.co.uk
HSS Hire Service Group Ltd
Manor Royall/Southamptom
Contact: Training Administration
Tel:0845 7667799
Fax: 0161 8779074
training@hss.co.uk
www.hss.co.uk
The Platform Company Ltd
Bishops Waltham
Contact: Michelle Beak
Tel: 01628 559977
Fax: 01628 666484
m.beak@platformcompany.co.uk
www.platformcompany.co.uk
UK Training Services Ltd
Crawley
Contact: Paul Woodhead
Tel: 01226 786816
Fax: 01226 786737
davidbooth@ukpaltforms.co.uk
www.ukplatforms.co.uk
South West
A1 Hire & Sales Ltd
Poole
Contact: Alan Dean
Tel: 01202 718777
Fax: 01202 732726
training@a1hire.co.uk
www.a1hire.co.uk
AMP Powered Access Ltd
Taunton
Contact: Andy Pearson
Tel: 01823 351251
Fax: 01823 351352
houseoforc@aol.com
www.amp-access.co.uk
Fenton Plant Hire
Nr Cirencester
Contact: David Mole
Tel: 01285 861535
dave.mole@fentontraining.co.uk
www.fentonplant.co.uk
SGB Mastclimbers Ltd (mastclimbing only)
Glasgow
Contact: Mike Hughes
Tel: 0141 3363344
Fax: 0141 3363355
mhughes@mastclimbers.co.uk
www.mastclimbers.co.uk
Nationwide Access Ltd
Southampton/Erith
Contact: Mike Ripton
Tel: 08456 011032
Fax: 0116 2869038
training@nationwideaccess.co.uk
www.nationwideaccess.co.uk
Heightmaster Ltd
Avonmouth
Contact: Keith Barnett
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Tel: 08700 771709
Fax: 08700 771609
keith@heightmaster.uk.com
www.drivemaster.uk.com
Kestrel Powered Access Ltd
Bristol
Contact: Amy Yorke
Tel: 0117 300 3945
Fax: 0117 972 4125
kestrelaccess@btclick.com
www.kestrelaccess.co.uk
Nationwide Access Ltd
Newton Abbot
Contact: Mike Ripton
Tel: 08456 011032
Fax: 0116 2869038
training@nationwideaccess.co.uk
www.nationwideaccess.co.uk
Wales
A J Access Platforms Ltd
Caldicot
Contact: Mike Fenn
Tel: 01291 421155
Fax: 01291 423930
sales@accessplatforms.com
www.accessplatforms.com
Nationwide Access Ltd
Cardiff
Contact: Mike Ripton
Tel: 08456 011032
Fax: 0166 2869038
traning@nationwideaccess.co.uk
www.nationwideaccess.co.uk
West Midlands
A Plant - Ashtead Plant Hire
Birmingham
Contact: Richard Steele
Tel: 0845 6008573
Fax:0129 3517321
accesstrainingcentre@aplant.com
www.aplant.com
CITB-ConstructionSkills
Kings Norton
Contact: Ron McNeil
Tel: 0141 8826455
Fax: 0141 8103197
ron.mcneil@citb.co.uk
www.citb.co.uk
Hewden Stuart PLC
Willenhall
Contact: Kathryn Brookes
Tel: 01925 860826
Fax: 01925 269708
kathryn.brookes@hewden.co.uk
www.hewden.co.uk
Higher Platforms Group PLC
Cannock
Contact: Mike Shakespeare
Tel: 01543 270000
Fax: 01543 270007
training@higherplatforms.com
www.higherplatforms.com
HSS Hire Service Group Ltd
Tilehill
Contact: Training Administration
Tel: 0845 7667799
Fax: 0161 8779074
training@hss.co.uk
www.hss.co.uk
Instant Training Ltd
Newport
Contact: A D Jennings
Tel: 01952 815750
Fax: 01952 815758
hdillon@instant-training.com
www.instant-training.com
Interserve Industrial Services Ltd
Redditch
Contact: Helen Veale
Tel: 01527 507500
Fax: 01527 507501
helen.veale@interserveis.co.uk
www.interserveis.co.uk
Kimberly Access
Fenton
Contact: Ian Mayland
Tel: 01782 596006
Fax: 01782 336641
ian@kimberlyaccess.co.uk
www.kimberlyaccess.co.uk
Nationwide Access Ltd
Wednesbury
Contact: Mike Ripton
Tel: 08456 011032
Fax: 0116 2869038
training@nationwideaccess.co.uk
www.nationwideaccess.co.uk
Parkersell Lighting &
Electrical Services
Coleshill
Contact: Phil Hemming
Tel: 07767 352146
phemming@parkersell.com
www.parkersell.com
Patriot Rosco Training
Solutions Ltd
Burton on Trent
Contact: Evan Ross
Tel: 01283 740540
Fax: 01283 740890
eross@patriotrosco.co.uk
www.patriotrosco.co.uk
Safe Access Training
Brierley Hill
Contact: Robin Bent
Tel: 0121 4215002
safeaccesstraining@blueyonder.co.uk
SGB UK Powered Access
Exhall
Contact: Fiona Hair
Tel: 0141 7631333
Fax: 0141 7786730
fhair@sgb.co.uk
www.sgb.co.uk
Shropshire County Training
Telford
Contact: Joe Flowers
Tel: 01952 605983
Fax: 01952 606439
joe.flowers@countytraining.com
www.sctindustrialcentre.com
The Platform Company Ltd
Oldbury
Contact: Michelle Beak
Tel: 01628 559977
Fax: 01628 666484
m.beak@platformcompany.co.uk
www.platformcompany.co.uk
Yorkshire
AFI Aerial Platforms Ltd
Wakefield
Contact: Paul Maxwell
Tel: 0870 755 0059
Fax: 0870 066 4155
info@afi-platforms.co.uk
www.afi-platforms.co.uk
Gardner Denver UK Ltd
Bradford
Contact: Michael Hartley
Tel: 01274 683131
Fax: 01274 651006
michael.hartley@eu.gardnerdenver.com
www.gardnerdenver.com
Generation Hire & Sale
Wakefield
Contact: Mandy Netherwood
Tel: 01924 370640
Fax: 01924 377530
mandy.netherwood@generationuk.co.uk
www.generationhireandsale.co.uk/
Hewden Stuart PLC
Carlisle
Contact: Kathryn Brookes
Tel: 01925 860826
Fax: 01925 269708
kathryn.brookes@hewden.co.uk
www.hewden.co.uk
Higher Platforms Group PLC
Thirsk
Contact: Mike Shakespeare
Tel: 01845 574222
Fax: 01845 574333
sales@higherplatforms.com
www.higherplatforms.com
Holbrook Fork Lift Training
Hull
Contact: Nicholas Holbrook
Tel: 01482 323709
Fax: 01482 323709
nick@holbrookforklift.karoo.co.uk
www.holbrookfltcentre.co.uk
HSS Hire Service Group Ltd
Leeds
Contact: Training Administration
Tel: 0845 7667799
Fax: 0161 8779074
training@hss.co.uk
www.hss.co.uk
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MECsafe Ltd
Doncaster
Contact: David Dawes
Tel: 01302 772368
Fax: 01302 802116
daviddawes@mecsafe.co.uk
www.mecsafe.co.uk
Mentor FLT Training Ltd
Chesterfield
Contact: RichardShore
Tel: 01246 555222
Fax: 01246 234184
richard.shore@mentortraining.co.uk
www.mentortraining.co.uk
Nationwide Access Ltd
Leeds
Contact: Mike Ripton
Tel: 08456 011032
Fax: 0116 2869038
training@nationwideaccess.co.uk
www.nationwideaccess.co.uk
Peter Hird & Sons Ltd
Hull
Contact: Brian Parker
Tel: 01482 227333
Fax: 01482 587710
brian@peter-hird.co.uk
www.peter-hird.co.uk
SGB UK Powered Access
Grimesthorpe
Contact: Fiona Hair
Tel: 0141 7631333
Fax: 0141 7786730
fhair@sgb.co.uk
www.sgb.co.uk
benjamin@vangaever.be
www.vangaever.be
Canada (+1)
Skyjack Inc
Guelph, Ontario
Contact: Matt Rahn
Tel: 800 265 27 38
Fax: 519 837 3883
safety.training@skyjackinc.com
www.skyjackinc.com
Chile (+56)
Alo Training Ltda
Quilicura
Contact: Carlos Muñoz L.
Tel: 02 689 5487
Fax: 02 223 06 38
alotraining@alorental.cl
www.alorental.cl
Finland (+358)
Bronto Skylift Oy Ab
Tampere
Contact: Heikki Tiura
Tel: 03 2727 111
Fax: 03 2727 300
servicehelp@bronto.fi
www.bronto.fi
OY Rotator
Tampere
Contact: Petri Lajunen
Tel: 03 2874 111
Fax: 03 2653 760
petri.lajunen@rotator.fi
www.rotator.fi
Easy-Lift GmbH
Berlin
Contact: Rolf Böhmer
Tel: 030 688 00000
Fax: 030 694 09068
info@easy-lift.de
www.easy-lift.de
Flesch Arbeitsbühnen GmbH & Co. KG
Tuttlingen
Contact: Gerhard Flesch
Tel: 07461 9610 15
Fax: 07461 9610 14
info@Flesch-arbeitsbuehnen.de
www.flesch-arbeitsbuehnen.de
Gardemann Arbeitsbühnen GmbH & Co. KG
Alpen
Contact: Hubert Gardemann
Tel: 028 02 9490
Fax: 028 02 949 349
info@gardemann.de
www.gardemann.de
Genie Europe
Contact: Achim R Sebulke
Tel: 0420 288 52 44
Fax: 0420 288 52 45
sebulr@genieind.com
www.genieind.com
Gerken GmbH
Düsseldorf
Contact: Christian Gerken
Tel: 0211 974 760
Fax: 0211 974 76 78
zentrale@gerken-arbeitsbuehnen.de
www.gerken-arbeitsbuehnen.de
Speedy Support Services Ltd
Leeds
Contact: Bill Kellie
Tel: 0113 2493600
Fax: 0113 2493888
info@speedytraining.co.uk
www.speedyhire.co.uk
OY Rotator
Vantaa
Contact: Petri Lajunen
Tel: 09 8789 010
Fax: 09 8789 0111
petri.lajunen@rotator.fi
www.rotator.fi
France (+33)
Haulotte Hubarbeitsbühnen GmbH
Bad Krozingen-Hausen
Contact: Patrick Degen
Tel: 07633 80 6920
Fax: 07633 80692 18
haulotte@de.haulotte.com
www.haulotte.com
The Platform Company Ltd
Birtley
Contact: Michelle Beak
Tel: 01628 559977
Fax: 01628 666484
m.beak@platformcompany.co.uk
www.platformcompany.co.uk
Uplift Power Platforms Ltd
Wakefield
Contact: Charlotte Audsley
Fax: 01924 383833
Tel: 01924 383832
charlotte.audsley@upliftplatforms.co.uk
www.upliftplatforms.co.uk
Belgium (+32)
Omnitalent
Antwerpen/Brüssel/Gent/
Hasselt/Lüttich
Contact: Laura Brink
Tel: 0031 43 358 10 81
Fax: 0031 43 35 00 656
info@omnitalent.info
www.omnitalent.info
Vangaever NV
Markegem
Contact: Benjamin Goosen
Tel: 0516 34331
Fax: 0516 35273
Haulotte Services
Saint Priest
Contact: Dominique Arondel
Tel: 04 72 88 05 70
Fax: 04 72 88 05 78
darondel@haulotte.com
www.haulotte.com
Germany (+49)
Arbeitssicherheit und
Arbeitsmedizin
Neustadt a.d.W.
Contact: Harald Diemer
Tel: 063 21 96 81 42
Fax: 063 21 96 81 43
info@diemer-ing.de
www.diemer-ing.de
AST GmbH Arbeits-Sicherheits-Training
Blaustein
Contact: Matthias Müller
Tel: 07304 430994
Fax: 07304 430995
info@ast-gmbh.biz
www.ast-gmbh.biz
Hytec Arbeitsbühnen Vermietung GmbH
Bremen
Contact: Wolfgang Klein
Tel: 0421 447380
Fax: 0421 448090
wk100@aol.com
JLG Deutschland GmbH
Ritterhude-Ihlpohl
Contact: Kai Schliephake
Tel: 0421 69 35 00
Fax: 0421 69 35 0 35
info@jlg-deutschland.de
www.jlg.com
Lift-Manager GmbH
Massing-Oberdietfurt
Contact: Roland Jäkel
Tel: 087 249 601 66
Fax: 03588 2946 25
info@lift-manager.de
www.lift-manager.de
Mietpark Gushurst
Sinzheim
Contact: Rainer Gushurst
Tel: 07221 987007
Fax: 07221 987008
mietparkgushurst@aol.com
www.mietpark-gushurst.de
Omnitalent
Aachen/Essen/Heinsberg/Köln/Moers
Contact: Laura Brink
Tel: 00 31 43 358 10 81
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Fax: 00 31 43 35 00 656
info@omnitalent.info
www.omnitalent.info
Peter Cramer GmbH & Co. KG
Hagen
Contact: Annekathrin Cramer
Tel: 02304 9333
Fax: 002304 933 600
info@cramer-arbeitsbuehnen.de
www.cramer-arbeitsbuehnen.de
Roggermaier GmbH
Kirchheim
Contact: W Eichstädter
Tel: 089 90 50 060
Fax: 089 90 50 06 55
info@roggermaier.de
www.roggermaier.de
Anton Ruthmann GmbH & Co KG
Gescher-Hochmoor
Contact: Thomas Rammelt
Tel: 02863 204 230
Fax: 02863 204 212
info@ruthmann.de
www.ruthmann.de
Schmidt GmbH & Co. KG
Neu-Isenburg
Contact: Michael Awarter
Tel: 06102 79790
Fax: 06102 797930
ni@schmidt-info.de
www.schmidt-info.de
Suffel Fördertechnik GmbH & Co. KG
Aschaffenburg
Contact: Steffi Schnabel
Tel: 06021 861 284
Fax: 06021 861 310
steffi.schnabel@suffel.com
www.suffel.com
Wagert Arbeitsbühnen-Vermietung
Bayreuth
Contact: Ulrich Wagert
Tel: 0921 789920
Fax: 0921 83126
info@wagert.de
www.wagert.de
WUMAG ELEVANT GmbH & Co. KG
Ebersbach
Contact: Wolfgang Späthe
Tel: 03586 7809 0
Fax: 03586 7809 54
www.wumag.de
WUMAG ELEVANT GmbH & Co. KG
Krefeld
Contact: Rolf Kulawik
Tel: 02151 526 200
Fax: 02151 526 230
rkulawik@wumag.de
www.wumag.de
WUMAG ELEVANT GmbH & Co. KG
Merklingen
Contact: Steffen Noak
Tel: 07337 922067
Fax: 07337 690431
noack@wumag.de
www.wumag.de
Zooom (Deutschland) GmbH
Frankfurt/Braunschweig/
Nürnberg/Kirchheim/
Neu-Isenburg/Hasbergen/Neuss
Contact: Klaus Langbecker
Tel: 069 950099 99
Fax: 069 950099 77
klaus.langbecker@zooomrent.de
www.zooomrent.de
Tel: 021 435 4000
Fax: 021 435 4600
info@euroaccess.ie
www.euroaccess.ie
Height for Hire Ltd (Safety Training)
Co. Meath
Contact: Frances McArdle
Tel: 01 8354900
Fax: 01 8354901
michelle.pentony@heightforhire.ie
www.heightforhire.com
HSS Hire Service Group Ltd
Dublin 9
Contact: Training Administration
Tel: 00 44 845 766 77 99
Fax: 00 44 161 7494059
training@hss.co.uk
www.hss.co.uk
Italy (+39)
Bigman GmbH/Srl
Varna (BZ)
Contact: Horst Harrasser
Tel: 474 412770
Fax: 0474 412771
info@bigman.it
www.bigman.it
CTE SpA
Rovereto (TN)
Contact: Mauro Potrich
Tel: 0464 48 50 50
Fax: 0464 48 50 99
info@ctelift.com
www.ctelilft.com
ECO (European Certifying Organization) SpA
Faenza (RA)
Contact: Roberto Pomini
Tel: 0546 62 49 11
Fax: 0546 62 49 22
info@eco-cert.it
www.econb.com
ICE Istituto Certificazione Europea SpA
Anzola dell’Emilia (BO)
Contact: Fabio Bicchi
Tel: 051 73 67 00
Fax: 051 73 67 01
info@ice.bo.it
www.ice.bo.it
JLG Industries Italia srl
Pregnana Milanese (MI)
Contact: Luciano Gardin
Tel: 02 93 59 52 10
Fax: 02 9 59 58 45
italia@jlg.com
www.jlg.com
Leader S.R.L.
Reggio nell’Emilia (RE)
Contact: Sandrino Ferrarini
Tel: 0522 61 92 70
Fax: 0522 61 92 69
info@leader-piatt.it
www.leader-piatt.it
Fax: 0171 61 41 00
roberto.corino@merlo.com
www.merlo.com
NO.VE srl
Monterotondo Scalo (ROMA)
Contact: Gianni Ballarin
Tel: 06 9004545
Fax: 06 9069565
gianniballarin@novesrl.com
www.novesrl.com
Ormet SpA
San Martino di Colle Uberto, Treviso
Contact: Carlo della Giustina
Tel: 0438 2086
Fax: 0438 394720
info@ormet.it
www.ormet.it
Serfin Srl
Cremona
Contact: Marco Rodiani
Tel: 0372 444188
Fax: 0372 471729
info@serfinsrl.it
www.serfinsrl.it
Luxembourg (+352)
Omnitalent
Contact: Laura Brink
Tel: 00 31 43 358 10 81
Fax: 00 31 43 35 00 656
info@omnitalent.info
www.omnitalent.info
Netherlands (+31)
Algebra Technisch
Handelsonderneming BV
Vlaardingen
Contact: M M van Zanten
Tel: 010 435 50 22
Fax: 010 460 35 85
info@algebrabv.com
www.algebrabv.com
Boels Rental Training Centre
Sittard
Contact: Richard Janssen
Tel: 046 459 21 01
Fax: 046 459 22 00
r.janssen@boels.nl
www.boels.com
Instant Amsterdam B.V.
Badhoevedorp
Contact: Allard May
Tel: 020 659 22 50
Fax: 020 659 57 15
ipaf@instant-holland.nl
www.instant-holland.nl
Kamphuis Hoogwerkers B.V.
Zutphen
Contact: Emiel Kamphuis
Tel: 057 554 37 98
Fax: 057 55 10 079
techniek@hoogwerken.nl
www.hoogwerken.nl
Omnitalent
Amsterdam/Alpendorn/Breda/
Groningen/Sittard/Rotterdam/
Venlo/Maastricht
Contact: Laura Brink
Tel: 043 358 10 81
Fax: 043 35 00 656
info@omnitalent.info
www.omnitalent.info
IPAF TRAINING CENTRES
Irish Republic (+353)
Euro Access Sales & Service Ltd
Cork
Contact: Paul McHugh
Merlo SpA
Cúneo
Contact: Roberto Corino
Tel: 0171 61 41 11
RIWAL Hoogwerkers BV
Dordrecht
Contact: Rik Maaskant
Tel: 078 618 18 88
Fax: 078 61 81 866
info@riwal.com
www.riwal.com
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IPAF TRAINING CENTRES
Ziegler Brandweer Techniek B.V.
Winschoten
Contact: Marcel Visser
Tel: 059 745 68 88
Fax: 059 74 56 889
m.visser@ziegler-nl.com
www.ziegler-nl.com
New Zealand (+64)
Go Hire Access Platforms Ltd
Auckland
Contact: Glenn Eddleston
Tel: 25 849803
Fax: 94 791178
service@gohire.co.nz
www.gohire.co.nz
Portugal (+351)
Aldaiturriaga Portugal Lda
Villa Franca de Xira
Contact: Duartde Carmo
Tel: 026 327 02 91
Fax: 026 327 02 93
famportugal@iol.pt
www.gamalquiler.com
Elevação Europeia Ph Lda (Euro Elevacao)
Quinta do Conde
Contact: Francisco Santos
Tel: 021 233 20 45
Fax: 021 233 20 78
lisboa@euroelevacao.com
www.euroelevacao.com
Spain (+34)
Aerial Platforms SA
San Fernando de Henares
Contact: Víctor López
Tel: 091 655 86 70
Fax: 091 656 93 32
office@apsa-jlgspain.com
www.apsa-jlgspain.com
ALDA - ELEVACION, S.L.
San Fernando de Hernares
Contact: David Montañola
Tel: 091 671 29 21
Fax: 091 672 79 99
scomez@gamalquiler.com
www.gamalquiler.com
GAM Aldaiturriaga
Barakaldo
Contact: Felix Bastida
Tel: 094 499 43 00
Fax: 094 499 67 99
aldaiturriaga@aldaiturriaga.com
www.gamalquiler.com
GAM LEVANTE
Massalfassar
Contact: Manoli Camacho
Tel: 096 141 71 42
Fax: 096 141 70 49
valencia@aldaiturriaga.com
www.gamalquiler.com
Haulotte Ibérica, S.L.
Torrejón de Ardoz
Contact: Manuel Fernandez Rubio
Tel: 091 656 97 77
Fax: 091 676 02 30
manuel.fernandez@haulotteiberica.com
www.haulotte.com
Plataformas y Maquinaria 2000, S.L.
Galdakao
Contact: Sergio Sagarminaga
Tel: 094 457 51 06
Fax: 094 457 32 83
plataformas2000@niftylift.net
www.niftylift.net
Talleres Velilla SA (Movex)
Canovelles
Contact: Francisco Velilla
Tel: 093 849 37 77
Fax: 093 849 93 57
info@talleresvelilla.com
www.talleresvelilla.com
Williams Powered Access Soluciónes SLL
Utebo
Contact: William H Daves
Tel: 064 942 11 85
Fax: 097 678 84 27
wdaves@wanadoo.es
Switzerland (+41)
ABB Schweiz AG
Wettingen
Contact: Hanspeter Keller
Tel: 058 588 01 30
Fax: 058 588 01 31
hanspeter.keller@ch.abb.com
www.abb.ch
Accès & Elevatique S.A.
Crissier
Contact: Arnaud Baumgartner
Tel: 021 635 87 77
Fax: 021 635 87 20
elevatique@bluewin.ch
www.elevatique.ch
AzAs GmbH
Ausbildungszentrum für Arbeitssicherheit
Rüthi (SG)
Contact: Ursula Uster
Tel: 071 757 38 38
Fax: 071 757 38 39
info@azas.ch
www.azas.ch
Bronto Skylift AG
Rümlang
Contact: Thomas Vogel
Tel: 044 818 80 40
Fax: 044 818 80 50
bronto@bronto.ch
www.bronto.ch
Camillo Vismara SA
Canobbio
Contact: Paolo Vismara
Tel: 091 941 75 59
Fax: 091 942 71 86
info@vismara.ch
www.vismara.ch
Maltech Zürich AG
Rümlang
Contact: Ulrich Hunziker
Tel: 044 818 05 60
Fax: 044 818 05 55
info@maltech.ch
www.maltech.ch
Mietlift-AG
Schaan
Contact: Claus Rzehak
Tel: 00 423 33 73 99 44
Fax: 00 423 33 73 99 45
office@mietlift-ag.ch
www.mietlift-ag.com
Rosenbauer AG
Oberglatt (ZH)
Contact: Alexander von Orelli
Tel: 043 411 12 12
Fax: 043 411 12 20
alexander.vonorelli@rosenbauer.com
www.rosenbauer.com
SkyAccess AG Handel und Service
Giebenach
Contact: Martin Vögtli
Tel: 061 813 22 22
Fax: 061 813 22 23
info@skyaccess.ch
www.skyaccess.ch
skycraft GmbH
Zürich
Contact: Hanspeter Krapf
Tel: 044 440 43 37
Fax: 044 440 43 38
info@skycraft.ch
www.skycraft.ch
UP - AG
Affoltern am Albis
Contact: Peter Elmer
Tel: 044 763 40 60
Fax: 044 763 40 70
peter.elmer@upag.ch
www.upag.ch
United Arab Emirates (+971)
Rapid Access LLC
Dubai
Contact: Martin Newton
Tel: 4 347 0131
Fax: 4 347 3900
martin@rapidaccess-golf.com
United States (+1)
Eckstine & Associates, Inc
Waynesboro, PA
Contact: Dennis Eckstine
Tel: 717 762 1555
Fax: 717 762 9055
deckstine@earthlink.net
FKI Logistex
St. Louis, MO
Contact: Dennis Wiggers
Tel: 314 409 6679
Fax: 314 995 2346
dennis.wiggers@fkilogistex.com
Haulotte U.S. Inc.
Hanover, MD
Contact: Carl Bisser
Tel: 877 428 6588
Fax: 877 428 5687
cbisser@us.haulotte.com
www.haulotte.com
Hoj Engineering & Sales Co
Salt Lake City, UT
Contact: Roy E Funk
Tel: 801 266 8881
Fax: 801 261 2327
rfunk@hoj.net
www.hoj-eng.com
JLG TrainingPLUS
McConnellsburg, PA
Contact: James H Smith
Tel: 717 485 6831
Fax: 717 485 6013
trainingplus@jlg.com
www.jlg.com
Skyjack Inc
St. Charles, IL
Contact: Matt Rahn
Tel: 800 275 9522
Fax: 630 262 0006
safety.training@skyjackinc.com
www.skyjackinc.com
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MEMBERS
Manufacturers’
directory
ACCESS SYSTEMS CLIMBER
Pinto, Madrid,Spain
Contact: Massimo Toni
Tel: 00 34 918 414 162
Fax: 00 34 911 412 314
mail@asclimber.com
www.asclimber.com
AICHI
Saitama, Japan
Contact: Ken Nezuka
Tel: 00 81 48 781 1671
Fax: 00 81 48 781 1808
Kensan@aichi-corp.com
BARIN
Cittadella (PD), Italy
Contact: Pierpaolo Barin
Tel: 00 39 049 5971300
Fax: 00 39 049 9400229
info@barin.it
www.barin.it
BRONTO SKYLIFT
Tampere, Finland
Contact: Esa Peltola
Tel: 00 358 3 27 27 111
Fax: 00 358 3 27 27 300
sales@bronto.fi
www.bronto.fi
COLOMBO GIUSEPPE
Settimo Milanese (MU), Italy
Contact: Enrico Colombo
Tel: 00 39 02 3281432
Fax: 00 39 02 3282849
info@colomboelevatori.it
www.colomboelevatori.com
CTE
Rovereto (TN), Italy
Contact: L Cipriani
Tel: 00 39 0464 48 50 50
Fax: 00 39 0464 48 50 99
info@ctelift.com
www.ctelilft.com
DINO LIFT
Loimaa, Finland
Contact: Lars-Petter Godenhielm
Tel: 00 358 2 762 5900
Fax: 00 358 2 762 7160
lpg@dinolift.com
www.dinolift.com
DUNLOP MASTCLIMBERS
Exeter, NH, United States
Contact: Julian Dunlop
Tel: 00 1 603 778 9840
Fax: 00 1 603 778 0230
JcHdunlop@aol.com
www.dunlopmastclimbers.com
EGI PLATFORMS
Les Ayvelles, France
Contact: Claude Guillou
Tel: 00 33 3 24 373136
Fax: 00 33 3 24 377600
claude.guillou@egi-platform.com
www.egi-platform.com
ELEVADORES GOIAN
Lazkao, Spain
Contact: Mario Moura
Tel: 00 34 902 365284
Fax: 00 34 943 1647 26
goian@goian.com
www.goian.com
FRACO
Quebec, Canada
Contact: Francois Villeneuve
Tel: 00 1 450 658 0094
Fax: 00 1 450 658 8905
fraco@fraco.com
www.fraco.com
GARDNER DENVER
Bradford, UK
Contact: Ben Martin
Tel: 00 44 1274 683131
Fax: 00 44 1274 651006
ben.martin@eu.gardnerdenver.com
GENIE *
Grantham, UK
Contact: John Liposits
Tel: 00 44 1476 584333
Fax: 00 44 1476 584334
john.liposits@genieind.com
www.genieindustries.com
GSR
Rimini, Italy
Contact: Piero Palmieri
Tel: 00 39 0541 397811
Fax: 00 39 0541 384491
info@gsrspa.it
www.gsrspa.it
HAULOTTE GROUP *
L’Horme, France
Contact: Yves Boucly
Tel: 00 33 4 77 29 24 24
Fax: 00 33 4 77 29 43 95
haulotte@haulotte.com
www.haulotte.com
HEK MANUFACTURING
Middelbeers, Netherlands
Contact: Ernst Van Hek
Tel: 00 31 13 514 8653
Fax: 00 31 13 514 8630
info@HEK.com
www.hek.com
HOLLAND LIFT
Hoorn, Netherlands
Contact: Menno Koel
Tel: 00 31 229 285553
Fax: 00 31 229 285558
info@hollandlift.com
www.hollandlift.com
ITECO
Pegognaga (MN), Italy
Contact: Corrado Conti
Tel: 00 39 0376 554011
Fax: 00 39 0376 559855
c.conti@itecolift.it
www.itecolift.it
JCB
Rocester, UK
Contact: John Lyle
Tel: 00 44 1889 590312
Fax: 00 44 1889 591287
jon.lyle@jcb.com
www.jcb.com
IPAF POWERED ACCESS REVIEW 2007
JLG *
Manchester, UK
Contact: Paul Phillips
Tel: 00 44 161 654 1000
Fax: 00 44 870 200 77 11
pphillips@jlg.com
www.jlguk.co.uk
MANITOU *
Verwood, UK
Contact: Tony Hobbs
Tel: 00 44 1202 825331
Fax: 00 44 1202 813027
MERLO *
Ringwood, UK
Contact: Peter Grant
Tel: 00 44 1425 480806
Fax: 00 44 1425 477478
peter.grant@merlo.co.uk
www.merlo.co.uk
NIFTYLIFT
Milton Keynes, UK
Contact: John Keely
Tel: 00 44 1908 223456
Fax: 00 44 1908 312733
info@niftylift.com
www.niftylift.com
OIL & STEEL *
S. Cesario Sul Panaro (MO), Italy
Contact: Alessio Nannini
Tel: 00 39 059 936811
Fax: 00 39 059 936800
alessio_nannini@pm-group.eu
www.pm-group.eu
OMME LIFT
Sdr Omme, Denmark
Contact: Harry Lorentsen
Tel: 00 45 75 34 13 00
Fax: 00 45 75 34 15 92
omme@ommelift.dk
www.ommelift.dk
OUTREACH
Falkirk, UK
Contact: Robert Anderson
Tel: 00 44 1324 889000
Fax: 00 44 1324 888901
randerson@outreach.plc.uk
www.outreach.plc.uk
OXLEY
San Rocco Di Bernezzo (CN), Italy
Contact: Giuseppe Zambotti
Tel: 00 39 0171 857036
Fax: 00 39 0171 857547
info@oxley.it
www.oxley.it
PAGLIERO
Manta (CN), Italy
Contact: Sandro Pagliero
Tel: 00 39 0175 255 211
Fax: 00 39 0175 255 255
info@pagliero.com
www.pagliero.com
PALFINGER
Ainring, Germany
Contact: Horst Bröcker
Tel: 00 49 8654 477-0
Fax: 00 49 8654 477-4000
info@palfinger.de
www.palfinger.de
RUTHMANN
Gescher-Hochmoor, Germany
Contact: Thomas Rammelt
Tel: 00 49 2863 204 230
Fax: 00 49 2863 204 212
info@ruthmann.de
www.ruthmann.de
SCANINTER NOKIA
Pirkkala, Finland
Contact: Juha Asikainen
Tel: 00 358 10 680 7000
Fax: 00 358 10 680 7033
juha.asikainen@scanclimber.com
www.scanclimber.com
SKYJACK
Ontario, Canada
Contact: Brad Boehler
Tel: 00 1 519 837 0888
Fax: 00 1 519 837 4895
brad.boehler@skyjackinc.com
SKYKING EQUIPMENT
Market Harborough, UK
Contact: Mark Carrington
Tel: 00 44 1858 467 361
Fax: 00 44 1858 467161
sales@skyking.co.uk
www.skyking.co.uk
SNORKEL
St. Joseph, MO, United States
Contact: Richard Hoffelmeyer
Tel: 00 1 800 255 0317
Fax: 00 1 785 989 3070
sales@snorkelusa.com
TALLERES VELILLA (MOVEX)
Canovelles, Spain
Contact: Francisco Velilla
Tel: 00 34 93 849 37 77
Fax: 00 34 93 849 93 57
info@talleresvelilla.com
www.talleresvelilla.com
TEUPEN
Gronau, Germany
Contact: Alfons Thihatmer
Tel: 00 49 256 2 8161-0
Fax: 00 49 256 2 8161 888
mail@teupen.info
www.teupen.info
UPRIGHT INT. MANUFACTURING
Dublin, Ireland
Contact: Arne Dirckinck-Holmfeld
Tel: 00 353 1 620 9300
Fax: 00 353 1 620 9301
arnedh@uprighteuro.com
www.uprighteuro.com
UPRIGHT POWERED ACCESS
Tyne & Wear, UK
Contact: Gillian Standley
Tel: 00 44 1207 521 111
Fax: 00 44 1207 523 355
gilllian.standley@upright.com
www.upright.com
WUMAG ELEVANT
Krefeld, Germany
Contact: Rolf Kulawik
Tel: 00 49 2151 526 200
Fax: 00 49 2151 526 230
rkulawik@wumag.de
www.wumag.de
* This company also has group membership in other countries.
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CONTACTS
Who is IPAF?
The International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) promotes
safety and best practice in the powered access industry worldwide.
IPAF is a not-for-profit members’ organisation that
represents the interests of manufacturers, distributors, users,
and rental and training companies. It serves as a forum for all
companies, organisations and individuals active in the world
of powered access.
The IPAF training programme for platform operators is certified
by TüV as conforming to ISO 18878. More than 50,000
operators are trained each year through a worldwide network of
over 250 IPAF-approved training centres. Successful trainees are
awarded the PAL Card (Powered Access Licence), the most widely
held and recognised proof of training for platform operators.
Membership of IPAF is open to users of platforms,
manufacturers, distributors, rental and training companies.
Benefits include:
■ Access to a wealth of valuable, practical information on
legal, technical and commercial aspects of platform use.
■ The chance to influence the growing body of legislation
and regulations that governs platform use.
■ Access to a growing portfolio of member services.
Further information on platform use, operator training,
becoming a training centre and membership is available
from IPAF: Tel: 015395 62444/Fax: 015395 64686/
E-mail: info@ipaf.org/Web: www.ipaf.org.
IPAF: Board, Council Members and Committee Chairmen
BOARD MEMBERS
President
Andrew Reid
Deputy President
Bill Lasky
Vice President
SGB Mastclimbers Ltd
JLG Industries Inc
John Ball Height for Hire Ltd Ireland
Managing Director
Tim Whiteman
Director
IPAF Offices
IPAF Ltd
Steve Shaughnessy A Plant Powered Access
Director
Tony Mort
Director
Pierre Saubot
A J Access Platforms Ltd
Haulotte Group
COUNCIL MEMBERS
Steve Couling
Mike Evans
Claude Guillou
Erkki Hokkinen
John Jordan
Versalift Distributors (UK) Ltd
Nationwide Access Ltd
EGI SA, France
Dino Lift Oy
Rapid Platforms Ltd
Wayne Lawson JLG Industries (Europe)
Ben Martin
Gardner Denver UK Ltd
Andrew McCusker Active Rentals Ltd
Keith Smith
Richard Tindale
Loxam Access Ltd
UpRight Powered Access
Michel van Mil Omnitalent Benelux
(Committee Chairmen are also Council
Members)
COMMITTEE
CHAIRMEN
Chairman, Powered Access
Interest Group
Austin Baker AFI Aerial Platforms Ltd
Chairman, Manufacturers’
Technical Committee
Roger Bowden Niftylift Ltd
Chairman, Mast Climbing Work
Platforms (International) Committee
Andrew Reid SGB Mastclimbers Ltd
Chairman, Mast Climbing Work
Platforms (UK & Ireland) Committee
Cameron Reid SGB Mastclimbers Ltd
Chairman, Telescopic Handlers
Committee
Peter Grant
Merlo UK Ltd
Chairman, Training Committee
Mike Ripton Nationwide Access Ltd
Chairman, ROI Council of IPAF
John Ball Height for Hire Ltd Ireland
UK Head Office
IPAF, Bridge End Business Park, Milnthorpe LA7 7RH, UK
Tel: +44 (0)15395 62444 Fax: +44 (0)15395 64686 info@ipaf.org
www.ipaf.org
Benelux
IPAF-Benelux, Hans Aarse,
39 Seringenstraat,
NL-3295 RN
’s-Gravendeel, Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)6 30 421042
Fax: +31 (0)84 710 0518
benelux@ipaf.org
www.ipaf.org/nl
France
IPAF-France, Bernard Volut,
8-10 Boulevard Thiers,
F-78250 Meulan, France
Tel/Fax: +33 130 99 16 68
france@ipaf.org
www.ipaf.org/fr
Germany
IPAF-Deutschland, Reinhard
Willenbrock, Grüner Weg 5,
D-28790 Schwanewede, Germany
Tel: +49 (0)421 6260 310
Fax: +49(0)421 6260 321
deutschland@ipaf.org
www.ipaf.org/de
Italy
IPAF-Italia, Gerhard Hillebrand,
Via Matteotti 40/12,
I-20020 Arese (MI), Italy
Tel: +39 02 935 818 73
Fax: +39 02 935 818 80
italia@ipaf.org
www.ipaf.org/it
Switzerland
IPAF-Basel, Aeschenvorstadt 71,
CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0)61 225 4407
Fax: +41 (0)61 225 4406
basel@ipaf.org
www.ipaf.org
USA
AWPT, Dennis Eckstine, PO Box 207,
Rouzerville, PA 17250-0207, USA
Tel: +1 717 762 1911
Fax: +1 717 762 9055
mail@awpt.org
www.awpt.org
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access machinery for sale
● New and Used Access Machinery
● Sold direct from our hire fleet
● All machines sold serviced and
certified
● Door to door delivery
● 500 machines available at any one time
Genie S85
Spec: 4wd telescopic boom.
Deutzt diesel.
27.75m work height.
Price: 2004/05/06 – POA.
Genie GS5390
Spec: 4wd Deutz diesel scissors.
18m work height.
Hydraulic outriggers.
Double decks.
Price: 2004/05/06 – POA.
Spider FS370
Spec: Specialised narrow access.
37m work height.
Hydraulic outriggers.
Diesel and battery.
Price: 2003 – POA.
Genie GS1932
Spec : 2wd battery scissors. 7.6m work height.
Solid non-marking tyres. Deck extension.
Price : 2004/05/06 – POA.
Genie GS3384
Spec: 4wd Deutz diesel scissors. 12m work
height. Hydraulic outriggers. Double decks.
Price: 2005/06 – POA.
Genie S125
Spec: 4wd telescopic boom. Cummns diesel.
39m work height. Hydraulic outriggers. Double
decks.
Price: 2003/04/05/06 – POA.
Genie Z80
Spec: 4wd articulated boom. Deuzt diesel. 26m
work height.
Price: 2004/05/06 – POA.
Manitou MT1335
Spec: 4wd Perkins diesel teleporter. 13m work
height. 3.5 tonne lift. Jacks.
Price: 2004 – POA.
Manitou MT2150
Spec: 4wd Perkins diesel ‘Rotator’ teleporter.
21m work height. 5 tonne lift. Jacks. 3t winch.
Basket.
Price: 2004 – POA.
Spider FS290
Spec: Specialised Narrow Acess. 29m work
height. Hyd outriggers. Diesel and battery.
Price: 2003 – POA.
Easi UpLifts Ltd would like to extend its best wishes to all at the
IPAF organisation for the coming year!
PIC TO
COME
John Ball
Managing Director
Tel: +353 1835 2835
Fergus McArdle
Director
Tel: +353 1835 4900
Ronan MacLennan
Export Sales Manager
Tel: +353 1835 2835
Mob: +353 86 8066 778
Coolquoy, The Ward
Co. Dublin, Ireland
Tel: +353 1835 2835
Fax: +353 1835 2781
the access specialist
www.easiuplifts.com

Aerial platforms
+
IPAF trained
operators
=
Safe effective
work at height
We train in many languages, because safety is a global responsibility
(Aerial platforms + IPAF trained operators = Safe effective work at height)
The world authority
in powered access
IPAF trains more than
50 000 operators per year
worldwide in the safe and
productive use of modern
platforms - its PAL Card is
recognised everywhere as
proof of high quality training.
International safety legislation
increasingly demands proper
training and your business
relies on the productivity of
your operators. So insist on
IPAF-training for operators to
get every job at height done
effectively and in complete
safety.
www.ipaf.org
Contact us for details of your nearest IPAF Training Centre, how to become an IPAF Training Centre,
how to join IPAF or simply to find out how IPAF can help your business.
Head Office: IPAF Ltd, Bridge End Business Park, Milnthorpe LA7 7RH, UK
Tel: +44 (0)15395 62444 Fax: +44 (0)15395 64686 info@ipaf.org www.ipaf.org
IPAF-Basel
Tel: +41 (0)61 225 4407 basel@ipaf.org
IPAF-Deutschland
Tel: +49 (0)421 6260 310 deutschland@ipaf.org
IPAF-Italia
Tel: +39 02 93581873 italia@ipaf.org
IPAF-France
Tel: +33 (0)1 30 99 16 68 france@ipaf.org
IPAF-Benelux
Tel: +31 (0)6 3042 1042 benelux@ipaf.org
IPAF training is certified by TUV as conforming with ISO 18878
AWPT Inc-USA
Tel: +1 717 762 1911 mail@awpt.org