KHL Group - Access

Access Industry Training Award

Alo Rental
Alo Rental is pioneering powered access and operator training in South America. The Chilean company was the very first IPAF training centre in the region and has been keen to learn and apply the very best practices from the world’s more developed access markets. The scale of the operation is may be small by European standards, but Alo is a genuine pioneer with a commitment to providing high quality training: as the company says, the 130 PAL cards it has issued in the last three years represent “a tiny figure, but a huge effort”.

A-Plant
A-Plant has made itself one of the UK access industry’s most successful ‘one-stop-shops’ for training, offering IPAF and PASMA courses, ladder association training, safety harness training as well as fall arrest, site safety awareness and driver load/unload training.

In 2008 the company trained over 3700 customer employees, and held over 4500 training days for its 2000 staff during the year. Last year also saw the company invest in a new National Customer raining Centre in Nottingham, a facility that just reinforces A-Plant’s commitment to training in the access business.

CTE (Italy)
Italian manufacturer and distributor CTE has been one of the most active operator training bodies in Southern Europe, and in 2008 trained the most operators of any organisation in Italy.

Led by safety and training manager Mauro Potrich, CTE has also been a key promoter of operator training and safe use of aerial platforms in Italy, having given presentations at eight different conferences and seminars during 2008. CTE also contributed substantially to updating Italian training courses to reflect the requirements of the new Italian health and safety act which came into force during 2008.

JLG (UK)
Like A-Plant, JLG in the UK gets its second shortlisting of the night in the Access Industry Training Category. It is well-deserved, since JLG (UK) is the largest training provider of any manufacturer in the UK and is committed to “promoting the need for training to anyone planning to operate an access platform.”

Although operator training is the key focus, the company is also able to offer other access training courses, including MEWPs for Managers and the Competent Assessed Person (CAP) course, one of only five organisations certified to do so in the UK.

The company will also take on major training challenges: in 2007/2008, for example, its training staff travelled to a Bechtel site in Iceland and helped that company achieve a record of 3 million hours of safe working.