Hire and Rental News

ACCESS in ACTION

MAY 2016

VOL17 NO 4

6,953 (Audit period September 2015)

CAB Member since March 2010

ELEVATING WORK PLATFORM ASSOCIATION INC

ABN 70 093 630 847

EWPA

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President: Rick Mustillo

Tel: 02 9817 7610

Vice President: Mitch Ely

Tel: 07 3456 4508

Past President: Tim Nuttall

Tel: 03 9547 7700

Chief Executive Officer: James Oxenham

Tel: 0410 704 979

Operations Manager: Nicolas Chiew

Tel: 0410 468 468

NSW President: John Glover

Tel: 02 9735 7600

VIC President: Tim Hille

Tel: 03 9555 1116

QLD President: Richard Gannon

Tel: 07 3277 7255

SA President: Ben Pritchard

Tel: 08 8262 1000

WA President: Will Reilly

Tel: 08 9456 4400

TRAINING DIRECTOR

Phil Middleton

Tel: 02 9622 6060

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Peter Wenn

Tel: 03 9568 7211

COMMITTEE

Dean Halliwell

Tel: 02 9623 3329

Bob Mules

Tel: 02 8718 6300

Peter Davis

Tel: 02 8796 5055

Doug Rawlings

Tel: 08 9350 5700

Keith Clarke

Tel: 03 9792 1000

TELESCOPIC HANDLER ASSOCIATION OF

AUSTRALIA (TSHA)

President:

Chris Taylor

Tel: 02 9609 4653

EWPA & TSHA

PO Box 1304, Mona Vale

NSW 1660

Tel: 02 9998 2222

Fax: 02 9998 2299

Email: info@ewpa.

com.au

Web: www.ewpa.com.au

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As always there are a number of great speakers

lined up. Make sure you go along and have

a listen. From a personal point of view it

is pleasing to see we will be getting some

international exposure with Leigh Sparrow

attending. For those of you who don’t know

Leigh he is the publisher of Cranes & Access

magazine and the very informative vertical.net

website.

I have known Leigh for many years and I know

he loves nothing more than to have a chat

about what’s going on in the access industry.

So if you see him around please go up and

introduce yourself and say hi.

I recently attended a joint HRIA / EWPA trade

night in Perth which had over a hundred

attendees. Some great food, refreshments and

ample networking made for a great night.

A big thanks to Allwest Equipment Hire for

hosting the function at their premises and to

all the suppliers for their support; it's greatly

appreciated.

The Perth event was a great example of how

the state committees try and come up with

ways where different and informative meetings

benefit the members. If you have a product,

idea for a meeting or speaker please pass it

on to either your state president or the EWPA

National office. We certainly would love to hear

from you.

Over the past six months it has been

unfortunate there have been a number of

deaths attributed to the use of aerial work

platforms. While I am not in a position to

comment on the nature of the accidents we

must remember we are operating high risk

plant, but the

risks can be

mitigated by

undertaking the

correct training,

worksite

assessments

and selecting

the correct

machine for the

job.

Don’t forget a great deal of information can

be found under the ‘Resources’ tab on the

EWPA’s website, including information sheets,

alerts and notices, safety controller information

and Yellow Card information. If you or your

company is a member then there is even more

information at hand simply by logging in on the

members section. Go to www.ewpa.com.au

On a technical note the EWPA has been invited

by the International Standards Organisation

(ISO) technical committee to participate in the

new international standard which will deal

with the ‘design and operation of controls’. It is

pleasing to see Australia is an active participant

in developing the new standard and Peter

Wenn, the EWPA’s Technical Director, will be

attending the meeting which is being held in

June. It will be interesting seeing the outcome

as it appears the three standards, AS/NZ

1418:10, ISO16368 and EN280 are getting to the

point where hopefully there will be one global

standard.

And so, see you on the Gold Coast.

Rick Mustillo

EWPA National President

Industry support in networking as well as technical

president's

message

After an excellent show in Adelaide last year, we are back at

the Gold Coast for the annual HRIA convention. The Gold Coast

always seems to attract the largest attendances and by all

accounts the 2016 show will follow.

Rick Mustillo

ACCESS IN ACTION • MAY 2016