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    1. Aerial/Lifting

    Genie Hosts Webinar Friday on New ANSI/CSA Standards

    May 7, 2019
    Joining OSHA’s National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction efforts to raise safety awareness in the aerial access industry, Genie will host a webinar on Friday, May 10, at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT to provide critical details on the upcoming standards changes.

    Joining OSHA’s National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction efforts to raise safety awareness in the aerial access industry, Genie will host a webinar on Friday, May 10, at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT to provide critical details on the upcoming ANSI A92.22-2018 (United States) and CSA B354.7:17 (Canada) standards changes.

    Hosted by Genie senior training Manager Scott Owyen, the webinar will explain how the North American MEWP (mobile elevating work platforms) standards are changing and why. To participate in the webinar, attendees can log in at https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/gtwuctbb.

    According to Owyen, it is important to understand the more significant aspects of the new MEWP standards in North America. Changes in the new standards that will be addressed in the webinar include:

    • Equipment Terminology
    • Equipment Design Standards
    • Safe Use and Planning
    • Risk Assessment Planning
    • Training (Operators, Supervisors & Occupants)
    • Maintenance and Repair Personnel Training

             “One of the biggest challenges in the aerial industry is increasing awareness about why safety is so important, especially as the standards change,” said Owyen. “With the standards in North America changing so significantly, MEWP owners and operators can benefit from the opportunity to be more educated on what is changing and how it will affect them.

    “The goal of hosting this webinar during OSHA’s National Safety Stand-Down week is to continue to raise awareness about operating MEWPs safely at height. This week gives us the opportunity to highlight the upcoming changes to the ANSI and CSA standards, further increasing our customers’ awareness about the proper use of MEWPs and associated responsibilities.”

    To participate in the Genie webinar on the new North American MEWP standards on Friday, May 10, at 1p.m. ET/10a.m. PT, attendees can log in at https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/gtwuctbb.

    In preparation for the standards changes, additional information and resources on the ANSI A92.22-2018 (United States) and CSA B354.7:17 (Canada) standards can be accessed at https://www.genielift.com/en/support/ansia92-csab354.

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    Michael Roth | Editor

    Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.