JLG Industries is supporting the American Ladder Institute’s (ALI) 5^th annual National Ladder Safety Month, February 22 – March 31, 2021, to boost consciousness of ladder security. Becoming a member of in ALI’s month-long efforts, JLG has revealed its new white paper “5 Steps to Attain Zero Falls From a Ladder at Work.”

In its new white paper, JLG highlights how Oshkosh Company and its manufacturers have been working in direction of eliminating falls from a ladder at work in its proactive pursuit of the very best stage of OSHA’s Voluntary Safety Program (VPP). This initiative carefully aligns with the targets of ALI’s Nationwide Ladder Security Month, the one motion devoted solely to the promotion of ladder security at house and work. 

“Let’s be sincere, most firms do not give a lot thought to the overarching value of utilizing a ladder,” stated Jennifer Stiansen, director of selling, JLG. “However ladders are a significant supply of high-priced accidents — and never simply from falls or falling objects both. Ladders can result in different occupational hazards, together with ergonomic and overexertion accidents from strenuous actions and the carrying of them between work places. These accidents result in misplaced time, decreased productiveness and expensive staff compensation claims.” 

In response to Stiansen, a safer various and rising class of options now exist that decrease the danger of expensive accidents: Low-level entry merchandise. These merchandise ship a most work top of 20-ft and weigh lower than 2,000 lb. They’re primarily utilized in functions the place one would traditionally use a ladder or scaffolding, corresponding to in match out and end work like portray, putting in fireplace alarm or sprinkler programs, placing in (or changing) lighting and ceiling tiles, in addition to different comparable sorts of duties.

Stiansen continues: “Low-level entry merchandise decrease the danger of falls and overuse accidents by decreasing pointless climbing. Security-conscious firms, together with JLG’s guardian firm Oshkosh, are committing increasingly to the elimination of ladders the place safer alternate options exist.”

For firms seeking to substitute ladders and scaffolding with merchandise that supply a safer technique to work at top, JLG affords a collection of low-level entry tools, together with the ES1330 and ES1530 scissor lifts, the EcoLift 50 and EcoLift 70 operated by hand lifts and the 830P and 1030P push-around lifts.