Ask an Expert: A Free Service for End Users of Powered Access MEWPS in the UK.
Ask an Expert serves to provide end users and operators of machinery with expert guidance for MEWP equipment selection.
Working at Height safely, quickly and cost-efficiently is possible with the right advice from MEWPS UK ‘Verified’ Members.
Hiring access equipment can be a tricky process for purchasing and site management teams, let alone for the single end user or operator. So great advice and goodwill can go a long way towards improving machine selection for hired-in equipment and new equipment sales. Making working at height tasks: Safer > Cost-Efficient > Faster…
MEWPS UK is the new home of the Access Experts for all things relating to MEWPS.
What does MEWP mean, what does it stand for?
MEWP is an acronym for mobile elevating work platform, typically used to access hard-to-reach places for safer working at height. A site-working practice (favoured in construction) for elevating workers and their equipment to height in order that they can perform safe maintenance, building tasks and all manner of contractor services.
How can the MEWPS UK Community help with project equipment requirements?
Here’s some of the ways that access experts can support better use of equipment:
- Emailed answers to your uploaded questions
- Phone calls from Expert Hire Members
- Site Surveys for the best advice possible
- Online video calls by Expert Hire Members
- Materials Handling Attachment (MHA) awareness and demo
- MEWPS Safety Innovations awareness and demonstrations
- Visit to Member’s Hire Depot for equipment demonstrations
What is the aim of Ask an Expert?
Our simple, honest aim is to ‘hook up’ those with a need, matching those with a solution, for a better fit I can’t personally think of; and do it for FREE.
How does ‘Ask an Expert’ work?
Uploaded end user questions are distributed using website backend automation via mailer to signed-up ‘Verified’ Hire Members: with no favour nor agenda. If you want to help then simply get signed-up, get verified and get involved!
Will asking an equipment hire member, and new access equipment sales member, help to get the right advice for practical access equipment selection, to hire or buy?
After 30+ years in #Hire and #Rental I recognise (Andy Laking, the author and owner of UK MEWPS Ltd) that this is a superb initiative, which I hope our members and end user visitors embrace. If they do, get the right advice – for all the right reasons – I believe it will lead to preferred #Safety and optimal commercial outcomes. That was my personal experience working with the UKCG and hundreds of UK Contractors on MEWP innovations…
