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When it comes to work-at-height projects, ensuring safety, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness is critical. Mobile Elevating Work Platforms (MEWPs) offer a smart, flexible solution, but working at height is dangerous, even more so without the right preparation and training. Whether you’re tackling a major commercial fit-out, facility maintenance, or industrial air conditioning installation, here are five key considerations when planning your next work-at-height project with a MEWP.

When deciding what equipment to use in your work-at-height project, you’ve likely heard the term ‘cherry picker‘ thrown about. But what is a cherry picker machine (also known as a boom lift), how does a cherry picker work, and is it the right choice for your needs? In this guide, the experts at Horizon Platforms explain what a cherry picker is, so you can decide if it’s the MEWP for you.

For projects that require you to work at height, it’s important to acquire the correct equipment, so tasks can be completed as safely and efficiently as possible. With this in mind, whether you work in fit out, mechanical and electrical, maintenance, or another industry, it’s likely that the question ‘what is a scissor lift?’ may have arisen.

Scissor lifts are common work-from-height equipment used in various installation, repair and maintenance projects, ranging from HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) and shop fitting to mechanical and electrical work, and more. 

Health and safety are important in any workplace, and working at height is far from an exception. The HSE defines working at height as ‘work in any place where, without precautions, a person might fall a distance liable to cause personal injury’. Therefore, work at height is undeniably risky. However, with our essential steps, you can ensure your work at height task is as safe and compliant as possible.