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Control and protect your working height with height limiting systems from GKD

|Date: December 16, 2020

Control and protect your working height with height limiting systems from GKD

GKD Technologies design, develop and produce height, slew and load safety control systems for general con ...

GKD Technologies design, develop and produce height, slew and load safety control systems for general construction equipment and Road Rail vehicles (RRV’s). The company has recently seen a significant ...

December 16, 2020
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Facelift invests in 32 Versalift Ford Transit Van Mounted Platforms

|Date: October 30, 2020

Facelift invests in 32 Versalift Ford Transit Van Mounted Platforms

Leading access platform hire specialists Facelift, (part of the AFI group of companies) has announced an ...

Leading access platform hire specialists Facelift, (part of the AFI group of companies) has announced an investment in 32 VTL-135-F Ford Transit van mounted platforms vans from Versalift UK. The Versa ...

October 30, 2020
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Genie launches new Z-62/40 TRAX articulating boom in Europe

|Date: October 14, 2020

Genie launches new Z-62/40 TRAX articulating boom in Europe

Providing end-users enhanced performance in challenging and rugged work environments, the popular Genie Z ...

Providing end-users enhanced performance in challenging and rugged work environments, the popular Genie Z-62/40 articulating boom is now available in TraX version throughout Europe and Russia region. ...

October 14, 2020
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Elite Access Rentals takes first Spider 43T in UK

|Date: October 09, 2020

Elite Access Rentals takes first Spider 43T in UK

Newly formed UK access rental specialist Elite Access Rentals has made a serious statement of intent by t ...

Newly formed UK access rental specialist Elite Access Rentals has made a serious statement of intent by taking delivery of the first Platform Basket Spider 43T Hybrid in the country from distributor P ...

October 09, 2020
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Manitou 200 ATJ e Oxygen | Electric avenue

|Date: September 29, 2020

Manitou 200 ATJ e Oxygen | Electric avenue

The Manitou 200 ATJ e Oxygen delivers all the performance you would expect from a Manitou but in a 100 pe ...

The Manitou 200 ATJ e Oxygen delivers all the performance you would expect from a Manitou but in a 100 per cent electric platform. The access platform remains the safest and most efficient way of work ...

September 29, 2020
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Eagle Platforms reaches new heights at power station project

|Date: September 29, 2020

Eagle Platforms reaches new heights at power station project

Eagle Platforms, the Sheffield-based supplier of next generation access solutions, has been chosen to del ...

Eagle Platforms, the Sheffield-based supplier of next generation access solutions, has been chosen to deliver critical safety training and working at height equipment for the construction of an ambiti ...

September 29, 2020
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Working at Height Best Practice Forum 2019

|Date: October 04, 2019

Working at Height Best Practice Forum 2019

Close to 400 delegates from leading contractors, associations and manufacturers once again came together ...

Close to 400 delegates from leading contractors, associations and manufacturers once again came together for the Working at Height Best Practice Forum on the 19th September 2019 with the aim of improv ...

October 04, 2019
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Nationwide Platforms opens new depot in Didcot

|Date: August 14, 2019

Nationwide Platforms opens new depot in Didcot

The UK’s largest powered access rental company, Nationwide Platforms, have opened a new depot in Didcot, ...

The UK’s largest powered access rental company, Nationwide Platforms, have opened a new depot in Didcot, Oxfordshire. The new operational facility is strategically placed to serve the company’s growin ...

August 14, 2019
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Heightsafe respond to rising falls from height deaths

|Date: July 04, 2019

Heightsafe respond to rising falls from height deaths

Today the HSE published its annual workplace fatality figures showing that deaths due to falls from heigh ...

Today the HSE published its annual workplace fatality figures showing that deaths due to falls from height have risen 11% in the last five years, 14% from last year. In 2018/19, 40 fatal injuries to w ...

July 04, 2019
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11% of health and safety incidents on public works involve Working at Height

|Date: May 31, 2019

11% of health and safety incidents on public works involve Working at Height

Figures supplied to Heightsafe by four of the UK’s most high-profile public works projects demonstrate th ...

Figures supplied to Heightsafe by four of the UK’s most high-profile public works projects demonstrate that a high proportion of health and safety incidents are related to Working at Height. Data from ...

May 31, 2019
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