UK based powered access specialist Horizon Platforms has achieved three key ISO accreditations.
18.09.2011
New Zealand Crane Group is installing Standfast’s TRAM fall protection system, on every crane above 80 tonnes.
30.08.2011
The HSE in the UK could charge health and safety offenders £133 an hour to cover the cost of investigating offences.
26.07.2011
Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will introduce new crane safety rules and initiatives in September
20.07.2011
Skyjack has issued a safety related service bulletin covering its SJ46AJ and SJ51AJ articulated booms.
14.07.2011
We have received a strange photograph of 40 people suspended in harnesses from a telescopic crane.
17.06.2011 1
The European material handling federation FEM has published its paper on handling people with Cranes.
25.05.2011
The US based crane operator certification company, NCCCO has won another lawsuit against John Nypl.
23.05.2011
The UK’s CPA has issued a Technical Information Note and declaration form to help UK crane hirers.
14.05.2011
Land Rover has issued a “customer satisfaction programme” for Defender 130s fitted with 13.5 metre platforms.
11.05.2011
Chris Wraith of Lavendon is moving to the International Powered Access Federation as its technical officer.
AGS the French based manufacturer of safety devices for tower cranes has opened its own subsidiary in Spain.
10.05.2011
The Illinois training site of Local 150 International Union of Operating Engineers has become an AWPT training centre.
04.05.2011
UK based construction company Balfour Beatty issued a safety bulletin last week concerning an incident with a Pop-Up +.
19.04.2011
US based Manlift Manufacturing has introduced a new electronic collision warning system
18.04.2011
UK based King Trailers has won an order for 39 ‘beaver tail’ truck bodies from Lavendon Access Services.
12.04.2011
The UK’s HSE has issued advice following an investigation into the failure of a hook on a loader crane.
29.03.2011 2
Kevin Appleton of Lavendon and Carlos Fernández Araoz of GAM have gained their IPAF PAL Cards.
25.03.2011
A Perth court has fined two directors of D&G Cranes $45,000 each and the company $90,000 for a fatal accident in 2007.
11.03.2011
The Canadian Police are looking for a fraudulent crane inspector who has scammed cranes owners out of $40,000.
06.03.2011
IPAF, ARA, AEM, AED and SIA have launched a best practice publication to clarify harness use on aerial lifts in the USA.
01.03.2011
Over the next few weeks, the HSE in the UK is clamping down on unsafe working at height on construction sites.
28.02.2011
US based association AEM has issued a new safety manual for knuckle-boom log loaders.
04.02.2011
JLG has announced that it is equipping its telehandler range with a patented longtitudinal overload device.
03.02.2011
