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Safe-use regulations in other countries have identified who is responsible for which aspect of scaffolding.
Hydek's Reddick points out similar benefits. "It's safer because of the guard rails and also because the platforms are more stable," he says. "It reduces back injuries and repetitive stress injuries"
Stepping up industry training
KEVIN O'SHEA, training and safety director for Mast-climbers LLC, in Lithonia, Ga., and senior instructor for Aerial Work Platform Training, the North American branch of the International Powered Access Federation, is creating training centers that will offer standardized mast climbing training.
"The idea will be to strategically place training centers in the U.S. so that we can maximize on demand," O'Shea says, adding that he expects to have 10 opened within the next 18 months and, potentially, double to 20 in four years. Centers have already been appointed in Montreal, Boston and Atlanta.
O'Shea is currently forming a MCWP working committee, inviting people from OSHA, mast climbing manufacturers, labor organizations, and others to get together to write safe use regulations.
"What we've got to do is quickly and comprehensively compile safe use regulations," he says. "We're looking at a 12- to 18-month process for writing the documents and getting them to the publication stage."
O'Shea says safe-use regulations in other countries have identified who is responsible for which aspect of the scaffolding, informed regulatory and compliance groups how to identify risk during installation, and set training and accreditation standards.
"We're going to take the blueprint of those regulations, Americanize them, get input from the MCWP industry in the U.S., and fashion the document into something we can present to the industry as the benchmark for consistency, quality and safety," he says.
Manufacturers are also focusing on training. Hydro Mobile developed a training program and certification process in the The Voice of the Masonry Industry