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Mobile access tower association PASMA has launched a new scheme using Facebook to help find last minute availability on training courses

Leader has high hopes for its modular scaffolding range, and with the help of its Hong Kong-based sister company and international certifications it is beginning to distribute around the world. AI reports

Brian Burket has taken the role of vice president of sales at BilJax, Haulotte Group’s scaffold and staging producer in North America, following the retirement of Chuck Hutchinson

Scaffolding provider NSG has been rebranded to reflect its integration into the France-based multinational Altrad Group. Eighteen months after its acquisition, UK-based NSG, will now be called Altrad NSG

Top New York City officials recently made 30 arrests after discovering a fraudulent scaffold certification ring. A construction company owner has been charged with possessing 32 fake scaffold certification cards he had made, according to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. These cards are required to work on scaffolding in NYC.

Five workers were injured in a scaffolding collapse Oct. 25 in Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada.

UK firm Turner Access Ltd is to hold a scaffolding competition in 2013 which it claims will not only showcase the fastest scaffolding teams in the country but will also highlight best practice and statutory regulations.

Irish scaffold tower specialist Instant UpRight will officially open its new Chinese manufacturing facility in Foshan, Guangzhou, next week with an event for dealers and customers from Asia, Middle East and Australia.

Access firm provides six mastclimbers to assist contractor John Murphy & Sons (JMS) in the construction of the Maryport UID scheme in Cumbria, UK.

UK based industrial services specialists Pyeroy has won a £1.1 million contract to provide access scaffolding and containment systems for the multi-million pound refit of the Royal Navy's Trident ballistic missile submarine HMS Vengeance.

British Waterways called in Harsco Infrastructure to provide its Cuplok scaffold system to provide access to the Five Rise canal lock system in Bingley, West Yorkshire, which has been drained for maintenance for the first time in 25 years.

Safway Services, LLC has introduced a new System Steel Sand Blast Plank developed to reduce debris accumulation on walking surfaces.

Avontus Software Corp., a rental billing, estimating, drawing and software designer for the scaffold and construction industries, has developed a new scaffold drawing tool that creates precise drawings and materials lists.

The Miami Herald is reporting that two employees of a Coral Gables, FL glass company have been hospitalized after the scaffolding they were using collapsed.

German scaffolding company Peri has seven of its latest projects firmly in the limelight at present, having worked on the construction or expansion of seven of the eight football stadiums currently being used for the 14th UEFA European Football Championships in Poland and the Ukraine.

After four recent construction accidents that took place in New Jersey, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released a statement calling on construction companies to ensure that workers at height (above 6 feet) have the proper fall protection equipment to protect themselves from falls on the job.

A 28-year-old man died May 27 after he fell three stories from scaffolding he was working on.

The Scaffold and Access Industry Association (SAIA) will celebrate its 40th anniversary at its annual convention and exposition to be held at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort & Spa from July 15-18 in Huntington Beach, CA.

French scaffolding group Altrad has acquired Generation Hire & Sales, a nationwide seller and renter of access equipment. The price has not been disclosed.

A 29-year-old man fell six stories to his death March 23 while erecting scaffolding at a Bay County, FL incinerator.