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UK rental company Facelift will again sponsor the Access Photo of the Year competition, with a €1000 prize for the winning picture. Tell your colleagues, employees and friends about the competition and ensure that the judging panel has a great selection of photos to choose from. The award is open to everyone working in the access industry. Entries should not include pictures commissio ... more
CRO cards issued since October 2015 will expire by the end of September and no further CRO cards will be issued as of 31 March 2017 as they are phased out by the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) in the drive to move towards full qualification. There are currently around 230,000 CRO cards in circulation, covering a number of ancillary construction roles. However, you do not nee ... more
Fatalities when working with Mobile Elevating Work Platforms (MEWPs) can be prevented with rigorous inspection and maintenance regimes, according to IPAF. This comes after a rental company manager was jailed for two years over safety failings that led to the death of one construction worker and seriously injured another. Donald Craig, 57, of Hamilton-based Craig Services & Access Lim ... more
Facelift is an IPAF Senior Instructor Training Centre and provide IPAF Operator training courses for all types of powered access platforms including Scissor Lift training, Cherry Picker training, Static and Mobile booms, Static and Vertical platforms, and Specialist Internal and Narrow Access Platforms. IPAF courses available from Facelift include: IPAF PAL+ advanced operator training cours ... more
Three companies from Essex have been fined after a worker fell over seven meters through a fragile roof he was replacing. Chelmsford Crown Court heard how Rafal Myslim was standing on the fragile roof at Dengie Crops Ltd in Asheldem, when the asbestos sheeting gave way and he fell 7.5m onto a concrete floor, hitting a number of pipes within the building on the way down. There was no safety n ... more
National bread makers Warburtons has been fined £2million after a worker was hospitalised following a fall. On 11 November 2013 Andrew Sears was cleaning one of the mixing machines at their Wednesbury bakery, a routine job he carried out every few weeks, when he lost his footing and fell nearly two meters. The father-of-one, who had worked at the factory since 2007, was hospitalise ... more
A roofing contractor has been fined after putting the lives of two employees at risk whilst working at height without protection against falls. The employees of MW Roofing (NW) Ltd where removing a chimney on a two storey house, at the site on Bertha Road, Rochdale, when they were seen accessing the roof via a cat ladder, while waste material was being removed by buckets carried down the ladde ... more
Access and safety experts from the US, China and the UK will be among the speakers at the 2017 International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) Summit, which is being held on 4 April in London. The theme of this year’s IPAF Summit is “Safety by Leadership”, and confirmed speakers for the IPAF Summit to date include: John Garrison Jr, President & CEO of Terex Corporation ... more
Nearly half of all small construction sites it inspected in 2016 fell below standards in health and safety, worse than in last year’s initiative. Notes published ahead of the HSE board meeting show that inspectors visited a total of 1840 sites and inspected 2235 contractors. Out of these, 49 per cent of sites fell below standards required to comply with health and safety requirements. ... more
Facelift kit was brought in to assist in the filming of a very special music video earlier this month. This came after Warwickshire police officers and other members of the emergency services put on their dancing shoes to record a music video in aid of Alex Goodwin, the son of a Warwickshire Police officer who has a rare form of cancer. To help raise money for Alex, Warwickshire Police Investiga ... more
