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| Date
added: 23 April 2008 |
| IPAF elect Height for Hire's John Ball as president |
| John Ball, group managing director of Height for Hire, Ireland, has been elected president of the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF). |
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| Date
added: 07 April 2008 |
| Barely a week to the Summit |
| This years IPAF summit – Are your MEWPs safe? - will be held at Whittlebury Hall near Silverstone, England on April 15th. With just over a week left to go there are still a few places left for what is one of the best values going - tickets are free. |
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| Date
added: 28 March 2008 |
| O’Shea heads mast climber committee |
| Kevin O’Shea, of US based, Mastclimbers LLC, was elected chairman of the IPAF Mast Climbing Work Platforms (International) Committee at the last meeting, held during CONEXPO in Las Vegas. |
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| Date
added: 28 March 2008 |
| O’Shea chairs IPAF mast climbing committee |
| Kevin O’Shea of Atlanta based Mastclimbers, was elected chairman of the IPAF Mast Climbing Work Platforms (International) Committee at its last meeting, held in Las Vegas during Conexpo. |
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| Date
added: 15 February 2008 |
| Meeting stringent safety standards can be tough for small contractors |
| The tough safety standards of large general contractors like PCL Constructors Inc. discourage some subcontractors from bidding on their projects — even when the contracts are lucrative. |
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| Date
added: 01 February 2008 |
| As Worker Dies and Building Violations Increase, City Council Introduces Bill To Make Sites Safe - Brooklyn |
| CITY HALL — On Wednesday, the same day a construction worker fell to his death from a Clinton Hill tower, City Council introduced legislation its sponsors said would improve safety at building sites and “end the Wild West approach to development.” |
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| Date
added: 29 January 2008 |
| Mast Climbing Safety Discussed at BAC Conference |
| Kevin O'Shea of Mastclimbers
LLC in Grayson, Georgia, and Aerial Work Platform Training's
mast climber representative, was asked to conduct a number of
workshops on mast climber safety, the drive for "safe-use"
regulation and, of course, AWPT's pivotal role in educating
and training workers. |
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| Date
added: 28 January 2008 |
| UCATT calls for safety crackdown after fatal fall from scaffolding |
| Union calls for employers to improve site safety after death on Swansea site earlier this month. |
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| Date
added: 11 January 2008 |
| Safer and superior access solutions for home builders |
| For home builders, balancing safety responsibility with the need for high productivity at manageable cost has never been greater. This is especially true when working at height is involved. For safe, innovative, total access solutions, many organisations are turning to market leader SGB. |
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| Date
added: 08 January 2008 |
| Haulotte exits French rental market |
| The Haulotte Group has sold its rental businesses in France, Lev and Royan Levage to Loxam. |
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| Date
added: 07 January 2008 |
| IPAF Signs New Members |
| Admar Supply Company, Rochester, NY; Bil-Jax, Inc. Archbold, OH; Fraco Products, St. Mathias, Quebec, Canada; Midwest Aerials & Equipment, St. Louis; Missouri; NES Rentals, Chicago, Illinois and Northeast Work Platform Training, Boston, Massachusetts have become new members of the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF), the parent organization of Aerial Work Platform Training, Inc (AWPT). |
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| Date
added: 01 January 2008 |
| European Expansion for Skyjack |
| Skyjack, the world’s fourth largest self propelled aerial lift manufacturer, has been a major player in the North American market for some time but in Europe its only consistently strong market presence has been in the UK and Ireland. |
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| Date
added: 31 December 2007 |
| New IPAF Categories |
| The IPAF aerial work platform training programme adopts new lift categories from 1 January 2008. The changes do NOT affect the training already received or existing PAL Card (Powered Access Licences) holders. |
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| Date
added: 28 December 2007 |
| Latest scaffolding accidents |
| Worker falls to death at Temple Hospital - Philadelphia
Heartland plant shut down after fatal fall for worker -
Canada
Scaffolding Accident Injures 4 - Los Angelese
Two hurt in scaffolding collapse - UK
OSHA investigates scaffolding collapse - Pennsylvania
Site horror halts work at Academy - Liverpool
Seven hurt as scaffold collapses
Death after steel scaffolding fell from forklift
12 feared dead as scaffolding of fly-over collapses in Hyderabad |
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| Date
added: 22 December 2007 |
| Santas clamber up early |
| PASSERS-BY were startled to see a clutch of Santas toiling away
on scaffolding on North Marine Road, Scarborough |
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| Date
added: 19 December 2007 |
| News from the Scaffold Industry |
….including: An Interview
with Alimak’s
Arvidson
Beta Max
Introduces
New Hoists
Tackling
Indemnification
Issues
SIA Regional
Chapters to Meet |
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| Date
added: 01 December 2007 |
| Mast Climbing Safety Discussed at BAC Conference |
| In August each year, The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craft Workers (BAC) hold its Annual Leadership Conference at Notre Dame University. Founded in 1865, the BAC represents hundreds of thousands of members throughout the United States. Part of the conference includes workshop sessions for regional leaders to hear about new and exciting initiatives which could benefit their members. This year, Kevin O'Shea of Mast-climbers LLC in Grayson, Georgia, and Aerial Work Platform Training's mast climber representative, was asked to conduct a number of workshops on mast climber safety, the drive for "safe-use" regulation and, of course, AWPT's pivotal role in educating and training workers. |
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| Date
added: 15 November 2007 |
| Manning Joins Alimak Hek Inc. |
| Alimak Hek Inc. is proud to announce the addition of Paula Manning as the new Business Development manager of the HEK product line for North America. Paula comes to Alimak Hek Inc. with extensive experience in the construction elevator and platform industry. |
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| Date
added: 13 November 2007 |
| Wachovia Insurance Services Announces Availability of Discount to Companies Adopting Increased Aerial Work Training |
| CHICAGO - Wachovia Insurance Services announces the availability of a discount on general liability insurance premiums to companies that adopt AWPT/IPAF training for operators of aerial work platforms. The discount supports the efforts of the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) and Aerial Work Platform Training, Inc. (AWPT), their North American subsidiary, to bring internationally recognized training programs for operators of aerial work platforms to the North American market. |
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| Date
added: 09 November 2007 |
| IPAF at Notre Dame |
| Situated in South Bend, Indiana, 90 miles from Chicago, Notre Dame University
is a world famous icon of American education. Established in 1842, Notre Dame
has seen many famous Americans pass through its doors, including current US
Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice.
In August each year, one of America’s most prestigious Unions, The International
Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craft Workers (The BAC), founded in 1865, and
who represent hundreds of thousands of members throughout the US, hold their
Annual Leadership Conference in Notre Dame. |
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| Date
added: 01 November 2007 |
| Fraco on duty at Ste. Justine Hospital |
| Fraco's platforms are presently in use for reinforcement works at Ste-Justine Hospital in Montreal. |
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| Date
added: 24 October 2007 |
| New MD at Alimak |
| Rolf J Persson has been appointed as the new managing director of Alimak, the hoist business within the Alimak-Hek group. |
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| Date
added: 18 October 2007 |
| Hek launches its modular system |
| Alimak Hek unveiled the full product range of its new Modular mast climber
system in a well attended event at its Middlebeers facility in Holland yesterday.
The new system announced at Bauma earlier this year allows a wide range of
Mast climbing work platforms and transport platforms to be built from a small
number of interchangeable modular components. |
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| Date
added: 14 August 2007 |
| As buildings rise, so do their costs |
| Construction costs in the UAE are set to continue their upward climb over the next 12 months, according to an industry expert. |
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| Date
added: 02 July 2007 |
| Licensing to move to the vocational education and training sector - Australia |
| A new national licensing standard ASCC 1017 for persons performing high risk occupations is to implemented nationally by all States and Territories by July 1, 2009. |
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| Date
added: 18 June 2007 |
| Cleveland, Ohio— The Scaffolding, Shoring & Forming Institute (SSFI) is offering free online resources to help keep work sites safe. |
| SSFI is a trade association comprising manufacturers of shoring, scaffolding, forming, and suspended scaffolding. The institute primarily focuses on engineering and safety aspects of scope products. |
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| Date
added: 14 June 2007 |
| Mastclimbers solve space problem |
| McCrory Scaffold has used a combination of mastclimbers and a hoist to solve a space problem in Belfast. The development in
Gloucester Street features a glass front but space between the building and street was limited. |
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| Date
added: 14 June 2007 |
| New training centre a national first for Kilkenny |
| This week saw the first basic scaffolding course to run at the Dennis Greenall Scaffolding Training Centre, newly opened in Kilkenny’s Hebron industrial estate |
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| Date
added: 16 May 2007 |
| Australia - QLD seminars on changes to licensing requirements |
| If you employ workers involved in scaffolding, rigging, crane operation, pressure equipment or loadshifting equipment then it is time to get to a seminar which explains new changes to licensing requirements coming into play July 1, 2007 in Queensland. |
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| Date
added: 02 May 2007 |
| New York - City Leaders Observe Construction Safety Week 2007 |
| As part of construction safety week, the city is distributing safety information to day laborers to teach them about workplace safety. |
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| Date
added: 01 May 2007 |
| City Gets Tough on Scaffolding - New York |
| The city's buildings department has formally signed an agreement with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration to get tough on illegal scaffolds. |
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| Date
added: 16 April 2007 |
| Palisade Palms |
Texas Contractor
Changing the skyline of Galveston's East Beach
Falcon Group of Houston is developing Galveston's East Beach with the construction
of the $169-million twin high-rise Palisade Palms condominiums. General contractor
Brasfield & Gorrie of Birmingham, Alabama, leads a construction team that
broke ground on the project in the spring of 2005. |
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| Date
added: 28 March 2007 |
| Chimney stack project is world’s tallest |
| SAVCOR Art was recently commissioned to carry out remedial works on a chimney stack at Loy Yang Power station. With safety being of paramount importance, and a critical time frame that imposed a challenging deadline, Savcor called upon the expertise and resources of the vertical access solution provider, Alimak Hek |
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| Date
added: 05 March 2007 |
| Firms fined for scaffold collapse |
| The scaffolding collapsed in January 2005
Two companies responsible for a scaffold collapse which nearly killed a woman have pleaded guilty to charges under the Health and Safety Act.
Sarah-Jane McGeachy, 31, was crushed when tons of poles and planks fell on top of her in Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, in January 2005. |
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| Date
added: 01 March 2007 |
| Task Force On Scaffold Safety Presents Findings To City Council (New York) |
| A special task force looking at scaffold safety made its case to the City Council Thursday, asking for a change in the way construction companies do business. |
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| Date
added: 08 February 2007 |
| First Reserve Completes Acquisition of Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services |
| First Reserve, the largest and oldest private equity firm that specializes in the energy industry, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services ("Brand") from J.P. Morgan Partners, LLC. |
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| Date
added: 07 February 2007 |
| After spike in NYC scaffold deaths, city focuses on safety |
| NEW YORK -- An alarming number of construction workers fell from scaffolding suspended atop city skyscrapers last year, city officials said Wednesday as they presented several measures intended to improve safety. |
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| Date
added: 22 January 2007 |
| Beta Max Introduces the Gemini Plus and Scaff-Trac Mounting Solutions Package |
| Creative combination generates superior revenue for rental organization |
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| Date
added: 22 January 2007 |
| Scaffolding buy lifts Siteserv profits |
| Fencing and scaffolding group Siteserv has reported pre-tax profits of €2.6m for the six months to the end of October, its first results since floating on Dublin's IEX market. |
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| Date
added: 03 January 2007 |
| Scaffolding company bought for $1.1 billion |
| Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services said it will be acquired for $1.1 billion by private equity firm First Reserve Corp. |
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| Date
added: 21 December 2006 |
| Siteserv pays €20m for Easy Access |
| Dublin-listed Siteserv has bought formwork and scaffolding provider Easy Access, which operates from sites at Clondalkin in Dublin, Tuam in Galway and Glanmire in Cork. |
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| Date
added: 14 December 2006 |
| New owner for Alimak Hek |
| European private equity firm Triton is to acquire Alimak Hek the leading mast climber and hoist supplier . |
| ......more.> |
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| Date
added: 13 October 2006 |
| First Mammoth lifts arrive |
| The first lifts for the new company set up by Mark Butler and Andy Ainsworth have arrived in the UK. |
| ......more.> |
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| Date
added: 27 September 2006 |
| Access International's Mastclimbers News |
| Link to digital version of Access International |
| ......more.> |
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| Date
added: 27 September 2006 |
| Alimak Hek deal reafirms strategy |
| Alimak Hek's acquisition in July of Conrent, the US$11.2 million turnover hoist and mast climbing rental division of Coates Hire in Australia is the latest expansion into rental by the company and reinforces its commitment to growing the rental business. |
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| Date
added: 13 September 2006 |
| SafeWorks LLC Acquired by Wynnchurch Capital |
| Seattle-based SafeWorks LLC last week announced it has been acquired by Wynnchurch Capital Partners, a Chicago-based, middle market private equity firm specializing in management buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate spin-offs, restructurings and growth capital investments. GE Capital and Merrill Lynch arranged senior debt financing, while Audax Mezzanine provided subordinated debt financing for the transaction. SafeWorks will be the second platform acquisition for Wynnchurch Capital Partners II, L.P. |
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| Date
added: 22 August 2006 |
| US Construction Boom: A Tale of Two Sectors |
| Solid economic growth continues to fuel a surprising boom in nonresidential construction, while homebuilding's woes worsen |
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| Date
added: 06 August 2006 |
| Alimak Hek Introduces the HEK MS 30350 lightweight mastclimbing workplatform |
| The HEK MS 30350 mastclimbing workplatform is designed to meet our customers' demands for a lightweight, easily installed vertical access solution |
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| Date
added: 01 February 2006 |
| IPAF - The International Powered Access Federation |
| A number of factors conspired to provide the MCWP industry in Europe with clear, unambiguous design and use standards. |
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| Date
added: 01 February 2006 |
| MAST CLIMBERS - An American Revolution? |
| The American mast climbing market has the potential to be the most important in the world, and at the current pace of growth it won’t be long coming! |
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