Hire and Rental News - Access in Action - February 2017

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38 ACCESS IN ACTION • FEBRUARY 2017
ACCESS in ACTION
United has been appointed exclusive
national distributor for the Elevah range
which is focused on enhancing workplace
efficiency while preventing accidents and
falls from lower heights.
The Italian-designed-and-built range
includes the Elevah 40 Move, a self-
propelled aluminium personal access lift
with a class-leading 4m working height
that has won the International Powered
Access Federation (IPAF) Product of the
Year award for low-level access.
The first vertical mast (access) and order
picker (forklift) products to be distributed
in Australia include the Elevah 40 Move
Stock Picker, as well as the Elevah 51
Move Stock Picker with up to 5.1m
working height and the Elevah 65 Move
Stock Picker with a working height of up
to 6.5m.
All Elevah products to be distributed in
Australia respond to the latest European
and global safety regulations applying to
traditional ladder systems, United Forklift
and Access Solutions’ General Manager,
Sales, Marketing and Distribution, Trent
Osborne said.
“While these have resulted in more
cumbersome and heavier conventional
systems, the light and safe Elevah
systems have provided a totally new and
more efficient solution to an old problem.
The Elevah range offers the greatest lift
heights in its class at a competitive and
affordable rate,” he said.
Elevah products, manufactured by
Faraone Industrie, feature safe working
platforms with built-in protection cages
for operators and nimble performance
for safe operation even in crowded or
restricted spaces. The compact and
versatile access machines each feature
tight turning performance with a high
turning radius that enables the machinery
to turn virtually within its own footprint,
Trent said.
Major advantages include it being safer
than conventional ladder systems,
helping to reduce preventable falls in the
workplace from relatively low heights.
In NSW alone, between July 2011 and
31 May 2016, 3,168 workers were injured
Workplace ladders upgraded to safer, swifter performance
A global range of ladder systems and access equipment purpose-built to provide solutions
to major workplace safety and efficiency issues is being introduced to Australia by United
Forklift and Access Solutions.
The Elevah 40 Move has won a global award for
low level access
in falls from ladders, including two
fatalities at a total cost of $54.5 million to
the NSW workers’ compensation system.*
Nationally, in the eight years from 1 July
2003 to 30 June 2011, 37 workers died
following a fall from a ladder.**
Safety features including side entrance
with sensors which stop the cage
opening; dual operator presence device;
anti-tilting device; electronic slope
monitoring; overload monitoring.
The Elevah range complements United’s
broader national ranges of forklift and
access equipment, including CAT forklifts
and Konecranes lift trucks in capacities
up to 65 tonnes, as well as the full range
of Haulotte access equipment.
* SafeWork NSW – SafeWork NSW issues
ladder safety warning, www.safework.
safework-nsw-issues-ladder-safety-
warning
** SafeWork Australia – work-related
injuries and fatalities involving a fall from
height, Australia, www.safeworkaustralia.
Documents/812/Falls-from-Height.pdf
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Crane service organisation, Konecranes,
is launching a new state-of-the-art
technician training centre in Sydney to
provide its technicians with industry-
specific training on crane use, service,
maintenance and inspections.
The new technician training centre,
which has a strong focus on efficiency,
safety and operations and standards
compliance, complements the existing
centre in Perth and covers technical,
electrical, product-specific, maintenance,
inverter and inspector training.
“A major advantage of our training
centres is not only does it refresh
the knowledge the technicians
have acquired at TAFE or college,
but it provides them with training
specific to industrial applications, and
comprehensively prepares them for
real-world tasks they’ll be performing,”
Konecranes launches new technician
training centre
Martin Davies, National Technical
Training Manager, Konecranes said.
“The training programs involve a mixture
of theoretical and practical components,
and give our technicians all the
required skills to be OEM and Standards
compliant,” Martin said.
The training centres feature advanced
simulators, delivered straight from
Konecranes head office in Finland, so
trainees can practice using cranes
and associated equipment in a safe
environment that mirrors real-world
conditions.
“We don’t just cover Konecranes
equipment either – we provide training
for cranes and equipment from other
manufacturers too.”
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