05.04.2004

Zooom to offer IPAF training in Germany

The International Powered Access Federation has announced that Zooom, one of Germany's largest aerial platform rental companies and sister company to Nationwide in the UK, is now offering IPAF training in Germany. Gardeman and JLG already operate IPAF approved training centres in Germany and the number of people holding a PAL card issued by an IPAF centre is growing.

Zooom will offer IPAF training from a total of nine sites, including Munich, Berlin and Frankfurt, by the end of 2004, in a bid to raise the European level of training. According to Friedmann Holzworth, sales and marketing director at Zooom, there are around 18 to 20,000 users of aerial work platforms in Germany, of which the company has only previously trained 250.

Tim Whiteman, IPAF managing director, said that the Federation is aiming to have trained 1000 German users of aerial work platforms by the end of the year.