MEWP Training Services

When working on MEWPs - your team will need to ensure there is a safe traffic management plan in place.

This will help segregate the MEWP from workers, pedestrians and other vehicles nearby.

Key points to consider:
🚧 Plan ahead - positioning & ground conditions
🚧 Be visible - enforce PPE being worn
🚧 Manage traffic - use temporary lights, signage and possible road closures
🚧 Implement an exclusion zone - ensure no overhang into traffic and take into account height and sizes of buses / lorries that may pass by.
🚧Restrict access to pedestrians so they cannot walk under the platform
🚧Load and unload safely - ensure enough space and separate from traffic.

Keep clear of overhead cables. You do not need to touch the power cables to be electrocuted – electricity can arc!

Contractors, end-users and rental companies are urged to download free poster artwork, for use in their daily operations, as part of IPAF’s campaign promoting the safe use of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) and mast climbing work platforms (MCWPs).

I am my brothers keeper ...
Pulitzer prize photo...and certainly worthy of that award..
This photo shows two power linemen, Randall Champion and J. D. Thompson, at the top of a utility pole. They had been performing routine maintenance when Champion brushed one of the high voltage lines at the very top. Over 4000 volts entered Champion’s body and instantly stopped his heart (an electric chair uses about 2000 volts).His safety harness prevented a fall, and Thompson, who had been ascending below him, quickly reached him and performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. He was unable to perform CPR given the circumstances, but continued breathing into Champion’s lungs until he felt a slight pulse, then unbuckled his harness and descended with him on his shoulder. Thompson and another worker administered CPR on the ground, and Champion was moderately revived by the time paramedics arrived, eventually making a full recovery.