RER Innovative Product Award Honorable Mention – Genie Lift Tools Access Deck
Product: Genie Lift Tools Access Deck
Manufacturer: Terex AWP
Key Innovation: Innovative accessory for safe work at height.
Manufacturer’s Description:
The new Genie Lift Tools Access Deck for Z articulating booms, S telescopic booms and GS-1930 scissor lifts provides operators with a secondary surface to work from, elevating them 22 inches (0.56 m) above the platform floor. Attached to the platform rails, this additional access solution enables operators to get into restricted spaces safely and increases productivity.
“Aerial jobsites often require access into space-restrictive areas to carry out work,” says Marie Engstrom, Genie product manager, Terex AWP. “Often, a MEWP's platform is too large to access these areas, and this limitation can result in operators not being able to access their work. The Genie Lift Tools Access Deck provides operators with a secondary surface to work from, enabling them to access restricted spaces safely to increase productively working at height.”
Rated for both indoor and outdoor use and engineered with non-slip decking on a wide, stable surface for use at height, this accessory is ideal for use in HVAC, electrical, lighting, plumbing and welding applications, as well as between rafters or other structures at height.
Genie Lift Tools Access Deck for Booms
Providing more than 3 square foot (0.27 m) of additional work area in the platform, the Genie Lift Tools Access Deck for booms is designed for use on jobsites where operators in a standard boom platform cannot reach their work. To accommodate a variety of operators, this additional deck has a 300-pound (136 kg) capacity.
Genie Lift Tools Access Deck for Scissor Lifts
The Genie Lift Tools Access Deck for scissor lifts provides operators with a secondary surface to elevate them above the platform floor for a productive solution to access hard-to-reach areas. This additional deck has a 225-pound (102 kg) capacity and installs to the inside of the extension deck guardrails on Genie GS-1930 scissor lift platforms.
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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.