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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.

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Verizon for $140,700 due various safety violations following a Sept. 14, 2011 death of an employee who was electrocuted while working from a utility truck.

The ANSI A92 main committee has approved the development of three new US standards: A92.20 Design, A92.22 Safe Use and A92.24 Training. The International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) is represented on the new standards committees. These standards are intended to replace A92.3, A92.5, A92.6, A92.7 and A92.8.

US safety company Ty-Flot has launched three new versions of the hard hat lanyard

IPAF (International Powered Access Federation) said that it welcomed Italy's updated regulations on the safe use of work equipment in the Italian Health and Safety Act 81/2008.

The Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited One Source Equipment Rentals for lacking to provide familiarization and training upon delivery of equipment. As required in ANSI A92 standards, familiarization must be provided to users when equipment is provided for sale, rental or lease. Trained operators must also be familiarized on the specific equipment prior to use. According to sources, the user was also cited for lack of operator training.

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved two American Society of Safety Engineers' (ASSE) standards addressing fall protection - the new ANSI/ASSE Z359.14-2012, Safety Requirements for Self-Retracting Devices for Personal Fall Arrest and Rescue Systems, and the revised ANSI/ASSE Z359.4-2012, Safety Requirements for Assisted-Rescue and Self-Rescue Systems, Subsystems and Components. The standards are part of the Z359 Fall Protection Code.

The maintenance department of the Turkish access rental and sales company, İstanbul Vinç Group has added further expertise to its service with training from Wim Roos and Kadir Özdemir from Holland Lift Servi-Tec.

German firm Carl Stahl has added the Elebia e5 and e10 automatic safety hooks to its portfolio of lifting equipment

According to research released by the UK IOSH (Institution of Occupational Safety and Health) deaths and injuries among migrant construction workers could be reduced if pictures were used in safety training.