Access role (1st July 2006)

Booms and scissor lifts from AFI Aerial Platforms were used by electrical services contractor WT Parker during the construction of a car parts manufacturing centre in Derbyshire.

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  Shop, don't drop (1st July 2006)

For the last two years, Approved Spotless Cleaning has used powered access machines from AFI Aerial Platforms to ensure work at height is undertaken quickly and efficiently. At a recent job, at the Hempstead Valley Centre at Gillingham, the company h

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  Demand for access training (1st May 2006)

Following the introduction of the new Work at Height Regulations, AFI Aerial Platforms reports a surge in demand for its powered access, mobile access tower and safety harness training courses.

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  Less trauma (1st March 2006)

To cut the risk of trauma injury should an employee fall from a machine and become suspended by a harness, AFI Aerial Platforms has introduced the suspension Trauma safety strap.

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  Check-ups for Hired Equipment (1st January 2006)

About 40 boom and scissor lifts have been on hire from AFI Aerial Platforms to four different subcontractors working on a new glass bottling plant in the North West of England.

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  Stop trauma (1st November 2005)

The new Suspension Trauma Safety Strap from AFI Aerial Platforms allows a worker who is suspended at height as a result of a fall to relieve pressure to their arteries and the veins around the top of the legs.

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  Little & large (1st July 2005)

AFI Aerial Platforms called on some of the biggest and smallest scissor lifts in its fleet to meet the needs of a contractor working on the new Coventry Arena complex.

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  CLEAN-UP ROLE (1st May 2005)

Fire and flood restoration specialist Belfor Relectronic (UK) used equipment from AFI Aerial Platforms to help them clean the fire blackened roof of a production process hall at the Corus steelworks in Flintshire.

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  Boom lifts help cranes grow (1st March 2005)

Crane engineers at Southampton Container Terminal used boom lifts from AFI Aerial Platforms to help them extend the height of five 900t dockside gantry cranes. They did this by lifting them 5m so that prefabricated leg extensions could be put into pl

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  SAFE WORKING AT HEIGHTS OVER 15M (1st January 2005)

Hurst Building Services has made extensive use of scissor lifts hired from AFI Aerial Platforms to carry out mechanical and electrical installation work at a new Instore head office and distribution complex in Huddersfield.

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  Training force (1st November 2004)

The long arm of the law has just got longer, with extra reach being provided by AFI Aerial Platforms.

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  BANKING ON TWO BOOM LIFTS (1st January 2004)

Two boom lifts from AFI Aerial Platforms were among 13 hired by Concert Lights (UK) to help them install rigging for lighting, sound and video for a banking conference at the NEC, Birmingham. Concert Lights, based in Bolton, needed 13 machines to car

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