All Health & safety Articles

Rental firm offers five places on Electrical Installation apprenticeship programme.

Haulotte and Hydro Mobile have joined the International Powered Access Federation to provide training.

Executives from Trico Lift recently provided hands-on training on aerial work platform safety as part of a one-day Fall Prevention seminar hosted by Madison Risk Group (MRG) at the FallProof Systems headquarters in Trenton, New Jersey.

Lavendon Group is promoting health and safety with a number of events across its international territories, starting with Nationwide Platforms in the UK this week.

UK plant hire firm achieves gold in the 2013 Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Occupational Health and Safety Awards. The accolade makes Hewden the first plant rental company to achieve gold for five years in a row.

The company plans to launch the online telehandler training by the end of this year.

Terex AWP has issued a safety notice requiring an inspection of the secondary boom angle on Genie Z-135/70s, following fatal collapse In June, but says machines are safe

UK rental and services firm opens a new multimillion-pound, purpose-built training facility in Reading today.

The UK’s Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) has published a guide to managing excavations safely

UK equipment hire company launches new training course aimed at employees who are appointed to control the movement of vehicles and plant at work

Sergio Kariya, director of Brazil-based access equipment rental giant Mills Rental, writes about the attitude towards safe working practices in the country and how his company is promoting the cause.

Riwal has committed to a range of International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) safety initiatives

Safety first? Is it possible for a rental business to focus too much on safety? No, says Kevin Appleton.

UK rental firm A-Plant has received its sixth consecutive gold award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).

AFI-Uplift has received a Bronze award in the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2013

The International Powered Access Federation is launching an eLearning aerial work platform training module for U.S. operators.

Equipment operators should be medically assessed every three years according to the new industry guidelines.

The American Rental Association (ARA), Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) and the Scaffold & Access Industry Association (SAIA) have released a best practices guide geared toward workplace risk assessment and aerial work platform equipment selection.

Announcement of 2012 access industry fatality statistics follows the launch of IPAF's accident reporting campaign in January 2012.

Australia’s EWPA (Elevating Work Platform Association) is educating its local market on the dangers of unauthorised alterations to equipment by end users.