Mobile towers - new standards explained

Euan Youdale Editor, Access International

07 September 2021

The mobile tower industry is taking steps to ensure safer work at height, with the rollout of the European EN1004-1 product standards. Sophie Ellam, product manager for WernerCo, which manufactures BoSS towers, discusses what these changes mean for the industry and how to ensure employees stay safe working at height.

Work at height can be a dangerous business. For example, in the UK, falls from height is the leading cause of workplace fatalities and of these incidents, 25% of the number of workers killed in 2020/21 were due to a fall from height. These accidents happened predominantly in the construction…

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