Tony Groat

Tony Groat is manager of IPAF North America, member of the ANSI A92 main committee and sub-committees, and vice chair of the CSA B354 technical committee.

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Compact Lift Safety: Guidance and Best Practices

An overview of compact lifts, their intended applications and best safety practices to operate them.

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IPAF Offers New Technical Guidance

Tony Groat considers some of the latest resources IPAF is offering to assist industry stakeholders.

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Do You Have a MEWP-Specific Safe-Use Plan?

Mobile elevating work platform (MEWP) users vary greatly from the one-time user to the daily user. The one thing in common is the need for the MEWP user to have a safe-use program in place to ensure the operation is safe for everyone.

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MEWP Industry Report 2022: The World Outside the Rental Market

A look at the latest in mobile elevating work platforms and where it's going in 2022.

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Positive Association: SAIA and IPAF Alliance Grows

Alliance, collaboration, and focus on member and industry benefits will see an increase in the activities and events where SAIA and IPAF join forces in the future, leveraging their shared expertise to enhance the safe use of powered access equipment.

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How We View COVID-19 in the Rear-view Mirror

We are in a new place, never going completely back to where we were. What’s missing is a sense of what behaviors have changed for good and which are likely to revert to pre-pandemic norms.

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Are Your Workers Trained Hard or Hardly Trained?

Elevating Safety spoke to a group of experienced MEWP training and safety professionals from across the industry to provide the following summary of what constitutes quality training and evaluate its importance.

Concerns about safety and a look at alternatives to ladders will continue a demand for MEWPs FIRST and ladders last.

ANSI Standards and Equipment Trends: A 2021 Outlook for the MEWP Industry

Members of the IPAF North America Council share their thoughts on the general outlook of the MEWP industry.

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An Improved Design for MEWPs – Plus Updated Safety and Training

With existing standards last changed in 2006, the ANSI/SAIA A92 suite of A92.20 design, A92.22 safe use, and A92.24 training standards are introducing the most significant changes since the standard were first published in the 1970s.

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Powered Access Standards Update

The year 2020 has been notable for powered access standards, with the ANSI/SAIA suite of standards for mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) going into effect.

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Why it Took a Global Health Crisis to Empower us to Make the Future Safer for Everyone

The coronavirus has cast a long shadow over the world, but amid the uncertainty, we are learning new methods to do business, re-evaluating the old ways of working, and uncovering new opportunities and smarter ways to be safe and effective.

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Putting Your Risk Assessment to Work for You

IPAF’s Tony Groat offers step-by-step guidance on how to put your risk assessment and safe-use plan into action.

Checklist vs. Inspection

When used correctly as an inspection tool, a checklist can assist in the compliance with required inspections. As each task on the checklist is completed, you are verifying the actual inspection task is accomplished and the MEWP is operating properly.

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Should Just Anyone Be Allowed to Rent a MEWP?

While an individuals might be able to rent a MEWP – they must also understand their responsibility to ensure their own safety. All MEWP renters should ask if training is available and complete it prior to operation.

ANSI A92.20 design, A92.22 safe-use and A92.24 training standards for mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) go into effect this December.

New ANSI A92 MEWP Standards Effective in December

These new stand-alone topic ANSI A92 standards provide detailed focus on the responsibilities for mobile elevating work platforms safe use and delivery of required MEWP training.

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Work Platform Operator Retraining – A Vital, Never-Ending Journey

Training operators of mobile elevating work platforms includes much more than simply the knowledge of how to make the machine move.

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Tilt and Load Sensor Design Changes

When the new ANSI A92.20 design standard is published, it will usher in many new requirements for MEWP manufacturers.

Reaching An Understanding

In the US, a growing Spanish-speaking population has raised awareness of the need to provide training in Spanish. Similarly, training in the Quebec province of Canada benefit from training in French.

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Standard Delays: The Broken Record Back on Track

The changes are significant and will require reading, understanding and implementing any requirements to meet your responsibilities as stated in the suite of standards.

New design, safe use and training standards cover the majority of all aerial work platforms in use, with the noted exception of vehicle-mounted devices.

How Will New Aerial Lift ANSI Standards Affect Users?

Both the US ANSI A92 standards and Canadian CSA B354 standards have been undergoing a thorough review over the past several years and new standards are expected to be issued by early 2017.

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Avoid Jobsite Hazards

Worker safety can be accomplished when a risk assessment is completed and method statement developed to eliminate or mitigate risk and the plan is implemented, to include the proper selection of the access equipment for the site and task to be performed.

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North American Powered Access Standards to Receive Overhaul

Don’t wait until the last minute to speak up if you will be impacted and required to address any change. This notification is to make you aware of potential changes that may impact you and your business.

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Lift Safely in Tight Spots

Safe use of aerial work platforms in a confined space or areas with overhead obstructions requires proper risk assessment to determine potential hazards, plus proper training to ensure site managers and operators understand safe operating procedures.