PAR2007 - IPAF

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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IPAF POWERED ACCESS REVIEW 2007