07.07.2010

Highway Plant offers CAP

Belfast based Highway Plant has become the first company in Ireland to be certified to provide training for the IPAF Competent Assessed Person (CAP) card and only the ninth in the UK/Ireland.

In addition the company was yesterday confirmed as having passed the final audit to gain the IPAF Rental+ quality standard. The company which celebrates its 27th anniversary later this year, joined IPAF in 1984 as member number eight and has been a training centre since 2001.
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Highway Plant has achieved IPAF+ status

The company which is based in Dunmurry to the south of Belfast city, is owned by David Houston and his family and was founded in November 1983 and as such possibly qualifies as the oldest independent powered access rental company in the UK?

The company is a family business with two generations active in the day to day operations, the rental fleet is one of the largest in Ireland, although its exact size is a closely guarded secret. Cranes & Access estimated it as the 17th largest in the UK and Ireland last year.

Director Julie Houston Smyth who recently became the first female to be appointed to the IPAF council, said: “As a family business we have worked very hard to educate powered access users and promote safety. We are very proud to have achieved the Rental+ accreditation and look forward to start training people for the CAP card”
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Highway Plant has a large mixed fleet operating from a single location

“As well as our rental fleet we sell powered access equipment and have a full engineering department which enables us to carry out work for owners from all over Ireland.”