Registration is open for next year’s IPAF Summit and International Awards for Powered Access (IAPAs), which returns to the UK for the first time in five years.

A safety trail demonstrating the most common types of MEWP accidents, as identified by the latest analysis of data gathered in IPAF’s incident reporting project, will be the theme of the IPAF stand at Vertikal Days 2021 in Peterborough, UK, 22-23 September.

IPAF has launched a new type of membership, the Safety Professional member category, aimed at those in health & safety or related supervisory roles.

IPAF’s new International Safety Committee (ISC) has been convened for the first time, to assist in globalising standards development and implementation, and promoting awareness about industry safe practice.

New ways to renew and extend MEWP operator training have been made available by IPAF, giving operators renewing their PAL Card and training certification or taking their advanced operator PAL+ training further options to use VR sims and eLearning.

IPAF’s world-leading quality training is now available in Lithuania for the first time, to meet the ongoing boom in demand for trained MEWP operators across the region.

IPAF has seen a surge of interest in its new Safety Professional member category, aimed at those in health & safety or related supervisory roles within powered access or wider industry, with the first member in the category already signed up.

A free webinar has marked the launch of the Global Powered Access Rental Market Reports, compiled exclusively each year for IPAF by research specialist Ducker.

Book now for IPAF Elevation, the UK conference, networking lunch and gala dinner, to be hosted for the third time, this year at Whittlebury Park Hotel on 18 November

The shortlist for the 2022 IAPAs has been announced, following a meeting of the judging panel. Those wishing to attend the IAPAs dinner and awards ceremony on
10 March in London, UK, are reminded the early-bird discount ends on 21 January.