22.08.2012

UKCG supports PAL+

Following a meeting of its Health & Safety Sub Group, UK Construction Group (UKCG) has agreed to ‘encourage’ steel erectors and net riggers working on its sites to hold an IPAF PAL+ qualification as of the 1st January 2013. It has also agreed to extend this to other trades working on specific projects, on a risk-assessed basis.

Mark Atkinson, health and safety manager for Clugston Construction, said: “UKCG members will encourage their supply chains to adopt the PAL+ training for key trades such as steel erectors and net riggers, and on a risk basis for specific projects, from January next year. PAL+ is a positive development. Candidates will need to be experienced operators and they will have over five hours of practical assessment on MEWPs.”

PAL+ is an optional, additional day of category-specific training intended to be more advanced, challenging and extensive than the PAL operator course which meets all requirements for basic operator training. The training is open to operators holding an existing PAL card (Powered Access Licence) qualification in the relevant category. Upon successful completion of the theory test, practical test and interview, operators will have the relevant categories added to their PAL Card.
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