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Working platform certificates - challenge them for safety's sake

Philip Hines of the UK’s Federation of Piling Specialists asks why the Federation is hearing about increasing numbers of incidents involving the failure or improper use of working platforms putting specialist geotechnical rigs and their operators in danger.

Philip Hines
 Failure to keep a Working Platform Certificate up-to-date can have serious ramifications on a job site

Failure to keep a Working Platform Certificate up-to-date can have serious ramifications on a job site

As we all know, working platforms are there to provide a safe and durable surface from which piling rigs, cranes and other heavy plant can operate. Their design obviously varies, according to many factors...

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