JLG Partners with Associated Builders and Contractors for Enhanced Equipment Training
A strategic partnership between JLG Industries and Associated Builders and Contractors has resulted in enhanced equipment training at the ABC Keystone Chapter with the delivery of three pieces of equipment to the chapter training facility in Manheim, Pa., on March 5, 2020. The equipment includes a rough terrain forklift, a 1930ES scissor lift and a E300AJP boom lift.
“We are excited for what JLG has brought to the table with this partnership, and we look forward to using this equipment in training our members,” said chapter president and CEO G. David Sload. “The strategic partnership between ABC National and JLG is helping ABC members develop people, win work and deliver that work safely.”
JLG Industries Inc. and ABC National formed a strategic partnership in 2018 to help solve industry challenges with world-class education, training and equipment solutions. As part of this partnership, ABC Keystone member companies and chapter employees have provided user feedback to JLG Industries through time spent evaluating and testing equipment at the JLG facility in McConnellsburg, Pa.
In 2019, ABC Keystone’s Director of Safety Services Kevin Keith became the first JLG equipment-trained instructor across ABC’s 69 chapters. With the upcoming American National Standards Institute (ANSI) 92.20 suite of changes, this unique certification that Keith holds allows ABC Keystone to provide better training and service to its members and employees, resulting in a safer and more knowledgeable workforce.
“JLG is a valued ABC strategic partner and leader in the industry when it comes to the design and manufacturing of access equipment,” said Greg Sizemore, ABC National’s vice president of health, safety, environment and workforce development. “We’re excited that our current and future workers will be educated using JLG equipment, which leads the industry in quality and safety.”
“JLG was founded on the principal of providing people with a safer way to work at height more than 50-years ago,” said Jennifer Stiansen, director of marketing, JLG. “Today, we remain passionate about pursuing the vision of our founder. We continually look for new ways to support the industry through innovative products, connected solutions, world class training and strategic partnerships such as the one formed with ABC.”
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Michael Roth
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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.