All Health & safety Articles
Nationwide Platforms' anti-entrapment solution, the SkySiren, is to be mandated on all applicable equipment used by Tyco Fire & Integrated Solutions from Monday 14th May.
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) has fined four companies a total of $107,000 in the January death of a man who fell while working on a bridge.
An Ohio man working from a utility company bucket truck was saved from serious injury because he was wearing proper fall proteciton.
Riwal chief executive officer Norty Turner will be the keynote speaker at the Europlatform conference taking place in Edinburgh, UK, on Thursday 20 September this year.
The Victoria Crane Association, which covers the Victoria region in Australia has issued some important advice to its members on the use of ladders when accessing areas above the ground.
The first NFDC/NDTG High Reach training course was recently held in the UK
Industry association LEEA speaks out against proposed changes to safety regulations and urges companies to join the campaign to keep the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations
The UK's Mentor FLT Training has added Low Level Access, Combined Low Level Access and Towers for Users and Work at Height (Essentials) to its portfolio of courses.
UK rental company Hewden has been awarded gold in the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards for the fourth year in a row, making it the first plant rental company to achieve this record.
Dawes Rigging & Crane Rental of Wisconsin, USA, a member of the All Erection & Crane Rental Family of Companies, has been named as a finalist in the 2011 Wisconsin Corporate Safety Award
Contractors who fail to regularly test their working at height equipment are putting their staff at risk of broken bones, fractured skulls or even loss of life, according to safety experts at Eurosafe.
Reporting incidents and accidents can make a significant contribution to the overall safety of the workplace.
The UK Contractors Group (UKCG) is supporting NASC's (National Access & Scaffolding Confederation) guidance on appointing scaffolding contractors.
JLG has developed Sky Guard to help boom operators avoid entrapment while working where there are overhead obstacles. The device is being demonstrated as a prototype and the company is welcoming feedback from customers and platform users.
IPAF's urban art project is nearly complete, the artists, Shiz and Foundry who are well known in this artistic genre, have been working through some very inclement weather from a boom and scissor having first completed IPAF PAL Card training. The high winds this week have frequently "grounded" the artists but now the 7m by 5m canvases are nearly finished.
Manitou Americas, Inc. has opened a 70,000-square-foot (21,500 m2) training facility for its XPRT Training department at its Madison, SD location.
Focusing on the basic principals of equipment selection and safe machine use remains important whether you are an experienced specifier or user of MEWPs or are just beginning to employ powered access in your business.
Next year’s IAPA awards and IPAF Summit will be held in Miami, Florida on Tuesday, 26 March, 2013 – the first time the event has been held outside Europe and the first time in North America.
Over 200 delegates at the IPAF Summit in Rome, Italy, heard NES Rentals chief executive officer Andy Studdert argue that the aerial platform industry needs to adopt a safety culture similar to that of aviation.
Hewden has been appointed as the sole accredited training provider for UK event crew provider Showforce.
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