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Spanish standards institute AENOR has started work on the new standard for training of mobile elevating work platform operators.

The Ladder Association, the trade body dedicated to promoting the safe use of ladders and stepladders, has launched a new information resource for users. Called LadderSolve, it sets out to provide simple, straightforward information about the proper use of ladders in the workplace.

Following lobbying by IPAF to introduce a European manufacturing norm for transport platforms, a new Working Group 4 on transport platforms has been formed under CEN/TC 10, the European technical standards committee that covers lifts, escalators and moving walks.

As part of the response to controversy surrounding rated capacity limiters in the new EN 13000:2010 European Standard, ESTA and FEM have issued a questionnaire surveying owners' experience with cranes delivered since 1 May 2010

International Tower Cranes 2011 is a new top-level one day conference and networking dinner for tower crane users and manufacturers worldwide

By the end of the year the UK scaffolding industry should be fully conforming to the European Standard BS EN12811-1:2003 rather than the withdrawn British Standard BS 5973:1993.

IPAF has published three standard forms/templates with the aim of promoting safety and best practice in the use of MCWPs (mast climbing work platforms) on work sites.

Mobile cranes delivered new in Europe since 1 May have changes to the operator's controls as a result of the 2010 amendment to the EN13000:2004 standard

Mobile access tower association PASMA is to technically evaluate the two most common methods of tower erection to provide an objective assessement of the benefits of each system.

New laws to improve the safety of tower cranes on construction sites were laid before the UK Parliament on 22 February

The long awaited revision of the cranes and derricks in construction standard has entered the final rule stage in the USA

The UK Association of Lorry Loader Manufacturers and Importers is moving to raise awareness of potential issues surrounding any delay to implementation of the new EN12999:2009

One of the most interesting and important debates at the World Crane and Transport Summit in October centred on an amendment to the European EN 13000 mobile crane standard regarding rated capacity limiters. EUAN YOUDALE reports

NASC (the National Access & Scaffolding Confederation) has launched a new information brochure, which aims to explain to clients and main contractors how using only regulated scaffolding firms can help them meet their requirements under the CDM 2007 Regulations for competence.

The American National Standards Institute has approved a new standard, the ANSI/SIA A92.10-2009.

IPAF is opposing a draft proposal by the ASSE (American Society of Safety Engineers) and ANSI (American National Standards Institute) A10 committee of new standards that cover the purchase, rental, lease, maintenance, use and training in use of aerial platforms used for lifting personnel in construction.

Following an independent audit, IPAF (the International Powered Access Federation) can announce that it continues to meet the ISO 9001:2000 standard. The audit is carried out every three years - this year by David Willcocks from ISOQAR - no major and no minor non-conformities were found.

The new North Carolina Crane Safety Standard will take effect 1 October. It is intended to protect the safety and health of crane operators, construction workers and the general public in the US state

Lebus International Engineers has claimed that new guidance to limit the use of deepwater cranes to 58% of their rated capacity will throw the industry into turmoil

As of 1 January 2010, Midas Group will only use scaffolding companies who are full members of NASC (the National Access & Scaffolding Confederation) from their subcontractor database.