productSafety at new levels
In Lebanon’s capital city, the 195 metre high Sama Beirut Tower is set to become the country’s tallest building in 2014.
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productOperator protection system enhances inherent safety
As an IPAF training school, Niftylift fully supports the need for all operators to be trained and familiarised with the operation of any powered access platform, as well as risk assessing the task to be performed and its environment.
productTest & inspect
Fall protection specialist Eurosafe Solutions has secured an agreement with a Dutch designer and manufacturer of wind turbines, to test and inspect its fall protection systems on its turbines across the UK.
productNiftylift wins two HAE awards
Milton Keynes based Powered access manufacturer Niftylift is celebrating winning both the Product of the Year and Supplier of the Year award categories at the recent Hire Association Europe (HAE) Hire Awards of Excellence 2013.
articleSafe access: A call of duty
Safe access equipment often requires mounting on flat roofs which has traditionally presented building owners/managers with a number of issues. Dan Rushton, commercial manager at Big Foot Systems, explains how non-penetrative frameworks have evolved to overcome the challenges posed by retrofitting equipment.
product£20m fleet renewal
Nationwide Platforms has unveiled a £20 million fleet investment plan for 2013.
productVideo alerts contractors and operators to work at height crushing dangers
In a further move to prevent deaths or serious injury caused by crushing when working at height, AFI has produced a new video to help powered access users understand some of the risks that they face and how anti-entrapment devices can help to protect them.
productDiscreet edge protection
KeeGuard Foldshield, the latest offering from Safesite, provides the same design flexibility as the standard freestanding KeeGuard system with the added benefit of being collapsible so it doesn’t detract from a building’s aesthetics.
productContainment system
Combisafe has supplied an edge protection solution at the £160 million Eagle House development in London – the UK’s first project to combine the Combisafe Power Post with vertical netting.
newsCouncil prosecuted after worker falls from cherry picker
Bradford Council has admitted serious safety breaches after one of its parks’ employees narrowly escaped death when he plunged eleven metres from the cradle of a cherry picker…
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