New Skyjack White Paper Highlights Key Changes to ANSI Standards
Skyjack has released a white paper detailing the major changes to the new aerial equipment standards in North America.
“The new ANSI design standard will bring North American machines in line with equipment currently in the European market, closing off most global variances,” said Barry Greenaway, senior product manager, Skyjack. “The white paper details the changes so rental companies and operators can prepare in advance and gain the insights needed.”
The American National Standards Institute is expected to release the new standard in the third quarter of 2017. In the white paper, Greenaway highlights the following information and major changes:
- Current and future standards;
- Familiarization and training;
- Availability of machines designed under old and new standards;
- Active load-sensing system;
- Impacts of new wind force requirements;
- Impacts of new stability and calculation tests;
- New railing heights and platform entrances.
The white paper is available for download at Skyjack’s website: Skyjack.com/ANSI-whitepaper.
The ANSI standards dictate stability, testing and safety requirements to access equipment manufacturers to ensure the marketplace receives and uses certified machines. The ANSI standards are similar to Canadian CSA standards, allowing for a consistency of approach, equipment and training throughout the Americas.
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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.