IPAF Rep to Grow Aerial Safety Awareness in India

Jason Woods, the International Powered Access Federation’s Middle East representative, will take on additional responsibility as IPAF’s representative for India.
Sept. 26, 2016

Jason Woods, the International Powered Access Federation’s Middle East representative, will take on additional responsibility as IPAF’s representative for India.

Woods has been successful growing IPAF’s presence in the Middle East, with members in Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. IPAF has also established good relationships with several health and safety authorities in the region, with the goal of promoting the safe use of powered access equipment in different industries.

“Adding India to IPAF’s Middle East representation was a logical development, due to the strong trade links between the regions, with many India-based companies operating in the Gulf area,” said IPAF CEO Tim Whiteman.

“IPAF members in India welcome Jason’s new appointment and additional support working,” said Nitin Gokhale of Dynamic Crane Engineers, and chairman of the IPAF India Council. “This will help us further promote the safe and effective use of powered access in emerging markets where technical expertise, guidance, training and safety initiatives will be of great benefit.”

Currently there are close to 15 IPAF members in India.

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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.

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