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At an open day at its Lutterworth headquarters, Lavendon Access Services gave visitors a taster of the new training courses on offer plus a look at the Blue Sky range of access accessories and demonstrations of the company's Nano platforms from Power Tower.

Terex AWP chose ARA's The Rental Show to launch: new on-line training courses, a more accessible parts service and a maintenance and repair service to augment its customers' facilities. Siva Balakrishna, vice president of global services at Terex AWP told Access International that this was a continuation of the Genie 360 customer support programme - "a one-stop-shop aftermarket solution which brings the company closer to the customer."

A new ‘best practice’ guide on training and familiarization for aerial work platforms in the US and been launched following a collabaration between trade associations, manufacturers and rental companies.

Starting a safety program can be a daunting task if you don't know where to begin. Lindsey Anderson speaks with industry safety veterans on how to create a program and implement it from start to finish

UK rental company, AFI-Uplift have become the first in the powered access industry to run the new IPAF PAV (Push Around Verticals) training course).

The launch of warning stickers by the AWPT (American Work Platform Training) subsidiary of IPAF (the International Powered Access Federation) is timely in the light of a US roofing contractor being cited for lack of training which led to a fatal accident.

NES Rentals has become an AWPT training center in the Chicago area and will offer International Powered Access Federation (IPAF)-based training.

IPAF is starting a pilot fire fighting course for MEWPs (mobile elevating work platforms) in the Netherlands from January 2010.

A report from OSHA (the US department of Occupational Safety and Health Administration) shows that in 2009 safety violations while working at height were among the most common in the US and, overall, the number of violations in the top-ten have increased by 30%.

US based company, Mastclimbers LLC, a sales and service company for new and used mast climbing work platforms, has reduced its insurance premiums by over 40% by implementing the AWPT (American Work Platform Training) training program. AWPT is a fully-owned subsidiary of IPAF (the International Powered Access Federation).    

North American platform manufacturers, rental companies and industry associations AEM (Association of Equipment Manufacturers) and the ARA (American Rental Association) are working together to create a new ‘best practice’ guide for aerial work platform training requirements.

Fixator, a French manufacturer of hoists and suspended platforms has integrated an electronic module into all its electrical cabinets for suspended scaffold hoists.

'Basic Rigging and Operating Procedures for Suspended Scaffold' is now available in Spanish

A new course for the category PAV (Push Around Vertical) will be offered by IPAF-approved training centres in the UK from January 2010.

AWPT interested in truck-mount AWP training

UK Law firm Mace & Jones is warning employers of the dangers of overhead power cables.

The 2010 International Awards for Powered Access will take place in London on Thursday 25 March.

UK manufacturer and distributor of access equipment, Planet Platforms (Northern) Ltd, has added forklift truck training to its access training division following the acquisition of BEL. The decision to purchase BEL formalises a long term working partnership between the two organisations.

In a survey on low level access solutions, Crown House Technologies, part of the Laing O'Rourke Group has found push around, powered access equipment to be far more time efficient than traditional solutions such as scaffold towers and podium steps.

Luca Allegro, technical manager of Alimak Hek Italy, has been named chairman of the Transport Platform Working Group (TPWG).