Just weeks after AFI-Uplift's chairman David Shipman used his speech at the IPAF Summit to urge the industry to do more to promote the safety benefits of powered access, the specialist rental company has staged a series of seminars to spread the word.
Key messages were that mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) are the safest way to work at height but that operators should receive familiarisation training on the specific type of machine being used, and there should also be a detailed rescue plan in place. Topics covered during the seminars included working at height legislation, the advantages of MEWPs, management responsibilities, powered access training and best practice.
Speakers at the seminars in Solihull, Waltham Abbey and Stockport including Joy Jones, principal construction inspector at the Health and Safety Executive, and senior representatives of IPAF. Jones highlighted the problem of MEWP trappings and urged the audience of managers and operators to select the right machine for the job in hand and to get advice from the machine hirer.
There was also a demonstration of booms and scissor lifts.
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