JLG Industries Inc., a leading global manufacturer of mobile elevating work platforms and telehandlers, announces a new podcast series on JLG® DirectAccess. The series kicks off with a 15-minute podcast detailing the updates to ANSI A92, which take effect December 10, 2019.
Released in December 2018, the new standards impact all owners, operators and supervisors of aerial lifts. The changes are designed to enhance safety and shift North American equipment standards closer to international standards – allowing companies to be more competitive on a global scale. The first podcast – featuring Rick Smith, senior director of product training at JLG – provides a comprehensive overview of the changes and how operators, owners and others are affected by these updates.
“This new communication tool provides busy customers another quick resource to gain vital information around changes and innovations in the access industry,” said Jennifer Stiansen, director of marketing at JLG. “We believe these in-depth podcasts help further educate owners and operators and make them more prepared and safer on the job site.”
The podcast series is ongoing and will cover a wide range of topics, including low-level access, electrification, augmented reality and other innovations impacting the access industry. Podcasts are archived and available any time on the JLG DirectAccess site. Subscribers to DirectAccess receive monthly updates from JLG with newly posted content.
Users can visit DirectAccess, listen to the new podcast series and subscribe to updates at https://www.jlg.com/en/direct-access. For more information about JLG, visit www.jlg.com.
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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.