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 | | PAL CARD WINS GROWING INTERNATIONAL ACCEPTANCE | | | International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) | | 11/12/2006 | | |
The PAL Card (Powered Access Licence) is recognised in a growing number of countries around the world. This is helping to facilitate cross-border working, says the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF), the organisation that issues PAL Cards to platform operators who have completed training certified as conforming to the international standard ISO 18878.
The PAL Card is widely recognised as proof of platform operator training in many countries, for example, by the Major Contractors Group in the UK, by the Berufsgenossenschaften in Germany, by Assodimi in Italy, by the SSW in the Netherlands, by the Scaffold Industry Association in the USA, and most recently, by Asociace ZZ-CR in the Czech Republic. More than 50,000 PAL Cards are issued each year through a network of over 200 IPAF-approved training centres worldwide.
Tim Whiteman, Managing Director of IPAF, said: 'If you have migrant workers on site and they show you a PAL Card issued in another language, you can be sure that they have received 95% of the same top quality training certified as conforming to ISO 18878. The 5% difference lies in the language and country-specific health and safety legislation. This means that a worker who has done PAL Card training in Czech will be able to use platforms safely and effectively on a UK site, but that he or she will need to be made aware of relevant national regulations and site rules.'
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