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May 1st 2007 With the Work at Height Regulations
beginning to bite, employees can
no longer just reach for the nearest
ladders or steps to gain access at
height – they must now carry out
risk assessments and consider
whether an alternative form of
access would be safer.
However, as Austin Baker, a
director at AFI-Uplift, says, the
regulations do NOT ban ladders, but
they do oblige you to ensure that
ladders are not an automatic
choice and that alternatives should
always be considered.
Baker says increased emphasis
on risk assessments and
considering whether an alternative
form of access would be safer is
leading to an increased demand
for smaller powered access
machines. To meet this demand,
AFI-Uplift has invested in machines
such as the ultra-small Pop-Up, the
Genie IWP20 and the Haulotte Star
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