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IPAF Launches Clunk Click Campaign
Clunk Click is a worldwide campaign calling for all users of boom type platforms to wear a full body harness...
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IPAF 25th Anniversary Dinner & Summit 15th April
The International Powered Access Federation will hold their annual AGM, Summit and 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner on April 15th at Whittlebury Hall, Northants. Details on the IPAF Website at www.ipaf.org
Adept Access have moved into their new premises in Gloucestershire
Mike Palmer has opened the new Adept Access workshop and training facility on February 1st. This will ensure that Adept Access are providing the best type of training base for their customers whilst also allowing them to move all of the sales machines to a convenient central location.
The new address is at Orchard Business Park, in Stoke Orchard between Cheltenham & Tewkesbury just off the M5 offering easy access. It is a decent size workshop with a large and spacious training room, with room inside or outside of the property to carry out practical instruction and examinations dependant on weather. As part of the Gastec at CRE site, the whole area is geared up for training and our clients are sure of a warm and professional welcome. Gastec at CRE Carry out instruction for heating and plumbing electrical engineers also at the location see their website at www.gastecuk.com
IPAF Launches New MEWP Categories from Jan 1st
The IPAF training programme adopts new MEWP categories from 1 January 2008. The category change does not affect the training received and existing PAL Cards (Powered Access Licences) remain valid as specified. Existing PAL Card holders do not need to get their cards changed.
IPAF has revised the categories in its training programme and is moving to align with the international standards prEN 280 and ISO DIS 16368, standards that regulate the design and manufacture of access platforms worldwide.
The new IPAF categories, with abbreviations and brief explanations, are:
Static Vertical (1a): Vertical personnel platforms (static)
Static Boom (1b): Self-propelled booms (outriggers), trailers/push-arounds, vehicle-mounted platforms
Mobile Vertical (3a): Scissor lifts, vertical personnel platforms (mobile)
Mobile Boom (3b): Self-propelled booms
Special (SPECIAL): Airport equipment
The following courses continue unchanged:
• Mast Climbing Work Platforms (MC)
• Insulated Aerial Devices (IAD)
• Telehandler Platforms – Integrated (TPI)
• Harness Use and Inspection (H)
• Loading and Unloading (LOAD)
• MEWPs for Managers (MM)
Current PAL Card holders who need to replace lost cards will be issued duplicate cards with the original categories they have been trained in. This is because the categories listed on the PAL Card reflect the training received. Those who re-train or do upgrades from 1 January 2008 onwards will be issued with the new categories.
Site managers can check the validity of PAL Cards by calling the IPAF office.
http://www.ipaf.org/en/training/categories/
IPAF Launches Clunk Click Campaign
Clunk Click is a worldwide campaign calling for all users of boom type platforms to wear a full body harness with a short restraint lanyard attached to a suitable anchor point.
The campaign started as a grassroots initiative by the UK Powered Access Interest Group (PAIG), a joint committee of the Construction Plant-hire Association and IPAF. Major rental companies took the initiative because unnecessary fatal accidents were happening when users were catapulted out of boom platforms because they were not wearing harnesses.
IPAF launched international versions of Clunk Click at bauma, including the German "Click Clack", the Italian "Clic Clac" and the North American "Click It". The campaign has the support of the UK Health & Safety Executive (HSE), the Major Contractors Group (MCG), the Hire Association of Europe (HAE) and the German Association of Construction Equipment Engineers (VDBUM).
How can I support Clunk Click?
If you or your employees are using boom type platforms, get some stickers and put them on the relevant machines. You could save a life.
Click Here to visit the IPAF site and find out more
HSE Launches Ladder Exchange
HSE and Local Authority inspectors will be looking at safe ladder use in June and July 2007. The HSE have a simple message to ladder users. "If it is right to use a ladder, use the right ladder, and use it safely. If it is not the right ladder, exchange it."
Ladder Exchange is a local initiative that will take place throughout June and July.
Ladder manufacturers and hire companies, many of whom are Ladder Association members, are planning a series of events in the summer aimed at ladder users in building and plant maintenance.
Click here to visit their site
NEW WEBSITE as Adept Training & Adept Access Merge.
Pete Ives of Adept Training Services Ltd and Mike Palmer formerly of AJ Access have merged their resources to form a new Training focussed company under the banner of Adept Access.
Offering IPAF, PASMA and Ladder Training, along with consultation and supply of new and used equipment from their respective Northern (Chester) and Southern (Cheltenham) bases. The pair hope to provide a competitive and complete service within the powered access and aluminium / ladder scaffold marketplace.
Having worked together for PTP Access in the late 90's until Loxam took over in 2000, Pete and Mike have kept in touch over the years. Pete going on to start up and run a thriving Training company, and Mike working for many of the industry big boys in rental, operations in Machine Sales. Both are qualified instructors, and have masses of experience in the marketplace.
“It just seemed natural that the customers looking to purchase machinery or equipment would trust the guy training them, and that is the way we want it to remain” said Mike Palmer. “We are looking to give the best information and advise on the safest and best fit machines for the task, not try and make a machine we have sitting in the yard sell to an unsuspecting client who will need to swap it out a little time later”.
“Thats right” Pete replied. “Training is our priority, but we have the resources and contacts to find the right machines for our clients whether new or used. And at the end of the day we will probably be training their staff on the equipment, so we want to make sure it is right from that perspective too!”
Both are hoping for rapid expansion in all of their services over the next few months, hence the reason they have opted to go for a bespoke designed website from Urban Element. We are both extremely happy that the service, John, Malcolm and David etc. at Urban Element have provided for us. Quickly understanding the business, and leaving us plenty of room to expand and improve the site as we grow in size.