Finding the right powered access platform provider can be a challenge, as you want to ensure you hire or buy only high-quality scissor lifts and cherry pickers for your work at height.
Working with a rental company that understands your industry and is 100% committed to helping you hit your goals makes all the difference. At Horizon Platforms, we focus on consistency, safety, and reliability to help you maximise operational efficiencies and make your platform lift rental process straightforward.
With access to over 16,000 platforms, we ensure you can carry out work safely at height. We offer fast (same day and next day) reliable delivery, 24/7 support, competitive rates, and tried-and-trusted accreditations.
Psst! Less than 2% of our machines have experienced problems. That’s some peace of mind!
When choosing a reliable MEWP provider, you will need to consider many factors. In this blog post, Horizon Platforms shares what to look out for, and why a reliable platform provider is vital for safety, efficiency and saving time and money.
What is a MEWP?
A Mobile Elevating Work Platform (MEWP), also know as powered access or an access platform, is a versatile and essential piece of equipment for working safely and efficiently at height. MEWPs include scissor lifts, cherry pickers (or boom lifts), personnel lifts and push around platforms designed to provide stable and elevated access to hard-to-reach areas.
These platforms offer superior manoeuvrability and stability for work at height compared to traditional ladders or scaffolding, significantly reducing the risk of falls and accidents. MEWPs are vital for various industries, including fit-out, facilities management, construction, HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), and warehousing, enabling workers to perform repairs, inspections, and installations with enhanced safety and productivity.
Why a Reliable MEWP Provider is Vital
Scissor lifts, cherry pickers, and other powered access platforms are designed to ensure much safer working environments than other equipment, such as steps and ladders. They are stable and offer excellent manoeuvrability, allowing workers to navigate difficult environments above ground level.
However, when hiring MEWPs, you must ensure you choose reliable machines in the correct working order and that the MEWP provider is safety-focused. Access platforms have risks and challenges, so you need assurances machines won’t let you down or present significant risks to operators or bystanders.
Top working-at-height accidents include:
- Falls from height
- Unstable, dangerous environments
- Falling debris
When operating a MEWP, you will want to choose the correct access platform for your project to limit the risk of accidents. One of the best ways to do this is by assessing your working environment and carrying out a risk assessment.
Here at Horizon Platforms, we take your safety seriously and can guarantee that we supply you with safe-to-use, high-quality, powered access platforms. Use our handy platform finder tool to find your ideal access platform, or call us today, and our expert team will be happy to help you.
In addition, a reliable provider will take it upon themselves to make sure customers are not let down, and if issues do occur, they will take ownership and fix the problem quickly. At Horizon, we know late deliveries and broken down machines cost powered access users time and money, sometimes £000s. Therefore, all of our operations are underpinned by 8 service level commitments, covering deliver, quality and support guarantees, to make sure we’re always there for customers.
Read two case studies on how Horizon Platforms have saved customers time and/or money:
- A Strategic Powered Access Supplier Selection Decision that Resulted in 98.9% Trouble Free Hire Days
- Reversing the £000s Linked to Poor Powered Access Hire
How to Choose a Reliable Access Platform Provider
For many reasons, Horizon Platforms is considered an industry-leading powered access platform provider. From an extensive fleet of MEWPs nationwide to an array of accreditations, a reliable customer service team, and an excellent Trustpilot score, you can rely on Horizon Platforms to find a suitable access platform for your project.
When choosing a reliable provider, you should consider the following:
- Impressive accreditations and certifications
- Their extensive fleet of access platforms
- Professionally inspected, repaired, and maintained MEWPs
- Consider the true cost of hire, not just the hire rate
- Fast, reliable customer service
Do you know if your current powered supplier is hitting the mark in the areas above? Are you missing an opportunity to maximise operational efficiencies on a daily basis?
Unsure? We have created a free, handy powered access equipment supplier scorecard to help you find out. Read why it is beneficial to score your MEWP supplier’s performance from a cost and efficiency perspective.
Why Are Horizon Platforms a Reliable, Industry-Leading Provider?
With an outstanding reputation within the industry, Horizon Platforms has established itself as one of the country’s most trustworthy and reliable access platform hire companies. We have an exceptional understanding of a whole host of industries and a range of specialised indoor-powered access platforms suitable for a range of projects.
Our service, which is underpinned by our 8 commitments to customers, has consistently hit 98% trouble-free hire days. We’re so confident in delivering a quality service that every customer can get access to a personalised hire statistics dashboard through our online portal, HireHub. Monitor on-time deliveries, collections, breakdowns, and spending. So if we don’t hit the mark, the customer will be the first to know!
What are the Benefits of Hiring a MEWP with Horizon Platforms?
Consistent and Reliable Access Platform Hire
Here at Horizon Platforms, we pride ourselves on fast, efficient delivery, with 98% of all deliveries arriving on time.
When hiring from an unreliable provider, you may experience high volumes of project downtime and delays and, as a result, incur additional costs. We are committed to ensuring you get your MEWP without any disruption, meaning you can complete your job on time, resulting in minimum downtime and no unnecessary losses for your clients. With HireHub’s hire statistics dashboard, you can make sure we stick to our promise.
In addition, if you or your team need IPAF training to operate or manage one or a fleet of hired scissor lifts and cherry pickers, Horizon can help! We cover all of your powered access needs!
Trusted Network of Access Platform Partners
From our super-depot in West Yorkshire or via the UK-wide Horizon-led partner network, each sharing our drive for excellence, safety, and compliance and regularly benchmarked for quality. If they don’t, we don’t work with them!
We reach every corner of the country, guaranteeing high service standards and platform quality. And when you hire from Horizon, you only speak and deal with Horizon, no passing from pillar to post.
We only supply well-maintained, high-quality machines from leading manufacturers, such as Dingli, Genie, and JLG. So, whether you want to hire a cherry picker, scissor lift, or push-around platform, you can rely on us to find the right platform for your project.
Professional Inspections, Repair, and Maintenance
Every access machine we hire out is done so following a pre-delivery inspection, is maintained and refurbished to high standard and always has a LOLER. For short-term hires, we have a fast and responsive 24/7 breakdown service in the unlikely event of issues. So if you have a problem you can call day or night, and if we can’t fix the issue remotely, an engineer will be onsite within 3 hours during normal working hours.
If you want to buy a scissor lift or cherry picker from PlatformSupermarket.com (powered by Horizon Platforms) or own a MEWP, we also offer access platform maintenance packages to cover your entire MEWP servicing, maintenance, and repair needs, making sure your MEWPs are always fully operational and safe to use.
Offering industry-leading customer service and one-point contact for your entire powered access platform needs, we will ensure the cherry pickers and scissor lifts you rent or own are always safe and fully operational and meet all work at height and health and safety legislation.
Excellent Accreditations and Certifications
We’re proud of our triple crown of ISO standards (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001), FORS Bronze, Safe Contractor accreditation, and the highest accreditation in the Powered Access Industry: IPAF Rental+ Gold.
We strive for industry excellence and aim to have the best accreditations and certifications within the industry, providing the highest guarantee that you’ll receive excellent standards of service when you work with us.
Visit our blog post for more information on the benefits of hiring powered access platforms.
By choosing Horizon Platforms for your platform lift rental needs, you are ensuring a safe, efficient, and reliable solution for your work-from-height projects. Get in touch and see how we can help.