In today's fast-paced world, workplace safety is of utmost importance. Regardless of the industry – be it construction or warehouse management – work platforms play a critical role in ensuring the ...

A sweeping set of new standards from the American National Standards Institute, for operators, supervisors and owners of boom and scissor lifts and under-bridge inspection platforms, are now poised to ...

Preliminary fatal injury rate calculations from the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) confirm that mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs, also known as aerial work platforms or AWPs) are ...

New regulations that will address the design, safe use, and training requirements for mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) are presently being drafted by U.S. and Canadian standards-writing ...

Working at heights is an inherently risky activity and, unfortunately, falls from mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) such as scissor or boom lifts occur on an all too frequent basis. Entrapment ...

Cargotec’s Mobile Elevating Work Platform – fitted on Hiab cranes and suited for maintenance jobs, bridge inspections and tree trimming – helps ensure safer and more productive work at heights through ...

According to the statistics over the past decade, the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) reports that there have been 118 fatalities, 16 major injuries, and 5 minor injuries attributed to ...

The Labour Department today launched the revised “Guidance Notes on Safe Use of Mobile Elevating Work Platforms”, urging duty holders to strengthen workplace safety measures and prevent accidents. To ...

Hong Kong labour authorities have suspended the use of elevating platforms at a construction site where a 65-year-old worker died after getting trapped between the device’s railing and a wall. The ...

The use of aerial work platforms is on the rise. In a recent study, the International Platform Access Federation, an industry group, found that AWPs continue to grow as a percentage of rental fleets.