Safety Bulletin - Safe Use of MEWPs Fitted with Deck Extensions

The EWPA has recently become aware of a fatality overseas where an operator was ejected from a scissor lift MEWP after the extended, deck extension was caught on a protruding structure during a lowering movement of the MEWP.
In collaboration with the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF), the EWPA NZ provides the following safety information to alert Owners, PCBU’s, Trainers and Operators to the potential hazard around the safe use of scissor deck extensions.

Read the full Safety Bulletin for Deck Extensions