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IPAF NEWS
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MAY-JUNE 2013 accessINTERNATIONAL
IPAF will be at these events:
2013
21 May
IPAF UK Country Council
Meeting (members only)
UK
28 – 30 May
Préventica
Lille, France
6 June
IPAF International Training
Advisory Group Meeting
(members only)
Frankfurt, Germany
12 June
IPAF Training Committee
Meeting (Training Committee only)
UK
13 June
TABS
Ehingen, Germany
18 – 21 June
Suisse Public
Bern, Switzerland
20 June
IPAF Swiss Country
Council Meeting (members only)
Bern, Switzerland
25 June
IPAF Council Meeting
(members only)
Manchester Airport, UK
26 – 27 June
Vertikal Days
Merseyside, UK
2 July
IPAF Training Committee
Meeting (members only)
Birmingham, UK
31 July – 2 August
BuildTechAsia and Asia
Platform Showcase
Singapore
2 August
IPAF Asia Conference
Singapore
IPAF DIARY
NEW MEMBERS
CONTRACTOR
■ Michael J Gallagher
Contractors Ltd, UK
DEALER/RENTAL/
SERVICE
■ Retro Mecânica
Ltda, Brazil
RENTAL
■ Ammec Comercial
SA DE CV, Mexico
■ AuraBrasil
Transportes Maquinas
e Equipamentos Ltda,
Brazil
■ Estaf Equipamentos
SA, Brazil
■ Evans Platforms
Ltd, UK
■ Rentalmak SAS,
Colombia
■ Zanetta Marino Srl ,
Italy
RENTAL/SERVICE/USER
■ Consenso Comércio
e Representaçoes
Ltda , Brazil
INDEPENDENT
INSTRUCTORS
■ C.W. Banks, UK
■ Simon Boulton, UK
■ Maurice Arthur
Penrose Evans , UK
■ Paul Maxwell, UK
■ Norcia Giancarlo,
Italy
■ C.N. Smith, UK
■ Stuart Wollaston, UK
MANUFACTURER
■ Xuzhou Handler
Special Vehicle Co Ltd ,
China
SERVICE
■ Infobric, Sweden
■ Massec SAS,
Colombia
■ SmartEquip Inc, USA
TRAINING
■ Aurelia Ltd, UK
■ Global FLT Ltd, UK
■ Simian Skill Ltd, UK
TRAINING CENTRES
■ Avesco Rent AG,
Switzerland
■ Bolton Hire &
Training Ltd, UK
■ BWK GmbH, Austria
■ Haulotte, Argentina
■ JP Nelson Equipment
Pte Ltd, Singapore
■ Mainline (1982)
Ltd, UK
■ Platform Hire, UK
■ SKC Rental Locação
de Equipamentos Ltda,
Brazil
■ SKC Rental SA, Chile
■ SKC Rental SAC, Peru
■ Swiss Logistics
Academy AG, Switzerland
■ W Rental Locadora
de Equipamentos Ltda,
Brazil
■ Warren Access
Ltd, UK
■ ZM Vermietungen
GbR, Germany
TRAINING CENTRES
(SATELLITES)
■ Health & Safety
Training Ltd, Gateshead,
UK
■ Horizon Platforms
Ltd, Warrington, UK
■ Mills Estruturas
e Serviços de
Engenharia SA, Brazil
■ Nationwide
Platforms, Warrington,
UK
USER
■ Apex Developments
Ltd, UK
IPAF welcomes the following new members. Full contact details can be found in the Membership
Directory atwww.ipaf.org
Steve Couling of Versalift takes
the helm as IPAF president
Steve Couling, managing director
of TIME-Versalift, was elected as
IPAF president at the Federation’s
annual general meeting held
in Miami. He succeeds Wayne
Lawson of JLG.
Andy Studdert, chairman
& CEO of NES Rentals, was
elected deputy president. Two
new members were elected to the
IPAF board of directors: Brad
Boehler, president of Skyjack,
and Nick Selley, group business
development director of AFI-
Uplift.
Mr Couling outlined three
goals for his two-year term as
IPAF president: specialist training
for the vehicle-mounted sector,
online training programmes,
and the creation of more IPAF
country councils to enable
regional forums for discussion
and a local focus on issues
important to those regions.
“The vehicle-mounted platform
sector has further to go than
most,” he noted. “There is still
a far too relaxed approach to
specialist training needs in some
regions.This is an area that I will
be personally trying to address
during my term as president.”
With IPAF’s recent launch
of an eLearning module as part
of the AWPT operator training
programme in the US and
Canada, Mr Couling said that
this is an exciting arena that IPAF
needs to be in from the outset:
“There are clear opportunities for
IPAF to use this medium to reach
even the most reluctant of regions
to accept and adopt safer working
practices and professional training
programmes.”
Launching IPAF’s 30th
anniversary celebrations, Mr
Couling said: “I intend to re-
define our original core objectives
to all members and to remind
everyone that IPAF is a not-for-
profit organisation.The original
objectives of IPAF are still true
and they still hold water: We
want to ensure our industry is
safe, safe for all users of powered
access equipment. I look forward
to working with IPAF CEO Tim
Whiteman and the IPAF staff,
and thank them for their hard
work and loyalty. Without them,
there is no IPAF.” AI
At the handover of the IPAF
presidency (left to right):
Outgoing IPAF president
Wayne Lawson of JLG, new
IPAF president Steve Couling
of Versalift, and IPAF CEO
Tim Whiteman.
2014 IAPAs to be
held near London
The International Awards for
Powered Access (IAPAs) will
be held together with the IPAF
Summit on 3 April 2014 in
Windsor, near London in the UK.
More news on the 2013 IAPAs
in Miami is in this magazine and
atwww.iapa-summit.info AI
International
Awards for
Powered
Access 2014 summit
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