IPAF Issues Guidance on Remounting MEWPs

The guidance emphasizes the difficulty and high level of engineering expertise required to mount MEWPs on a chassis other than those for which they were originally designed.

Feb 8, 2018
International Powered Access Federation (IPAF)
Ipaf Re Mounted Boom

IPAF’s Technical & Safety department has issued global guidance on the remounting of second-hand MEWP equipment on a different chassis. The guidance emphasizes the difficulty and high level of engineering expertise required to mount MEWPs on a chassis other than those for which they were originally designed, cautioning that “failure to mount or re-mount a MEWP correctly can and has led to serious accidents worldwide."

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