AFI director wins

Austin Baker,
AFI’s Health,
Safety,
Environment
and Quality
(HSEQ)
director has
won the IPAF Safety
Champion award at this
year’s International Awards
for Powered Access (IAPA)
conference in Rome.

The judges cho

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Stops crushes

Being crushed against overhead
obstructions, is one of the main
hazards facing operators of Mobile
Elevating Work Platforms (MEWPs).

In a move to save lives, powered
access rental specialist AFI-Uplift ha
developed th

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Stops unauthorised use

Providing a cost effective method of
preventing unauthorised use of
Mobile Elevating Work Platforms
(MEWPs), AFI-Uplift has launched
the Key Zone keypad. Key Zone is a
standalone unit, which locks and
unlocks the machin

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Access all areas

Manoeuvrability and flexibility were
key requirements for Whittle
Programmed
Painting when the
company hired an
AFI powered access
machine to carry out
a painting contract
in Derby. Following
an AFI site survey, a
JLG 800AJ boom lift
was selected to paint
the exterior concrete
and windows on the
five-storey office building. The
800AJ has a working height of
26.38m, a horizontal outreach of
15.74m and a width of 2.44m.

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AFI in the zone

Hoping to reduce deaths and
injuries, AFI-Uplift has launched
two major initiatives to improve
safety for operators of Mobile
Elevating Work Platforms (MEWPs).

Firstly, it is introducing Smart
Zone, a Smart Card reade

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HVAC help

AFI-Uplift units have been in action
at the NEC to help principal
contractor, Interserve ,and a number
of sub-contractors carry out a refit to
Halls 1 and 2.

Interserve project manager, Mark
Ball, said key factors in

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The small & tall

When contractors were called in to
install data and fibre optic cabling at
the NEC in Birmingham they hired
powered access machines from AFIUplift
to give them the height and
manoeuvrability required to reach the
roofs

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Tall order

Painting contractor Bagnalls turned
to AFI-Uplift powered access
machines to carry out the job of
painting 80m of footbridge spanning
a river and a three lane road before
connecting to the Meadowhall
Shopping Centre at

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Making light work

A boom lift supplied by AFI-Uplift
has helped to make light work of a
repair and painting contract at a
lighthouse in Hartlepool.
Pyeroy’s Infrastructure and
Maintenance Support Services
Division hired the JLG 450AJ boo

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To fail to plan…

Brian Parker discusses why companies must have an
emergency rescue plan in place when using mobile
elevating work platforms

Iwould never go up in a Mobile
Elevating Work Platform if I didn’t
know how to get myself do

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