Members and non-members who log knowledge within the IPAF accident reporting portal at the moment are in a position to entry improved dashboard capabilities that enable them to trace their very own security statistics towards the broader business, following intensive work behind the scenes to boost and replace the portal’s consumer interface.

“Till now, IPAF supplied a restricted interface for viewing studies by way of the portal, with logged-in customers solely in a position to view charts rating the incidents reported by the corporate as a proportion of the entire, which allowed tough benchmarking towards general business tendencies,” says Brian Parker, IPAF head of security and technical.

“Nonetheless, after intensive growth work, we’re happy to announce that these utilizing the incident reporting dashboards can now apply a number of filters that can give a snapshot of member firm incidents entered towards all database entries,” he says, “which in fact are fully anonymized so no firm or particular person will be recognized.”

Falls from the platform, electrocution, and platform overturns are the most typical sort of incidents resulting in severe accidents and deaths over the previous ten years, in response to the newest International Security Report, containing an evaluation of anonymized knowledge collected by way of the portal.

“IPAF’s accident reporting has been going for ten years; at present we’re receiving round 600 studies a 12 months from greater than 40 international locations worldwide – a leap ahead from the place we had been within the early days,” Parker says. “By providing a fast and easy method for member corporations to tailor their very own database read-outs, we hope it will help in making these actions safer, giving one thing again to our members within the rental business who’ve been enthusiastic supporters of IPAF’s accident reporting since day one.”

“We use the incident database to tell all of the work we do at IPAF – together with updating our globally acknowledged coaching and forming the idea of our worldwide security campaigns, akin to the present Do not Fall For It! initiative aimed toward lowering falls from the platform,” says Peter Douglas, CEO and managing director of IPAF.

“The newest tendencies present we have to problem ourselves as an business: is there extra we might do to cut back these numbers?” asks Douglas. “We hope that powered entry stakeholders all over the world learn the annual IPAF International Security Report, now out there in all core IPAF languages, to grasp key tendencies and benchmark their very own security actions.

“We want extra knowledge from throughout all sectors of business, from as many international locations as potential; particularly by way of straightforward on-the-spot incident reporting by way of the ePAL app. We hope this empowers individuals to report accidents and near-misses, which too usually go under-reported.”