We watch with great interest as the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) release their regular Product Safety Reports, as often, they’ll show confirmation of unsafe imported ladders having been stopped, tested, and subsequently rejected, at Port. In April alone, 17 safety reports hit our inboxes of ladders that were all deemed as ‘presentingMore Info
Our Executive Director, Peter Bennett OBE, continued to fly the flag for ladder safety when he appeared recently on the ‘Professional Builder’ podcast. Hosted by Lee Jones, editor of the popular and well-established SME trade magazine, Peter introduced the Ladder Association and how we support businesses of all sizes to stay safe when working atMore Info
By David Gray, Chairman of the Ladder Association and Managing Director, T.B Davies At the Ladder Association, we want everyone who climbs a ladder to come back down safely, and at T.B Davies, our commitment to safety when working at height is at the core of our operations. No Falls Week aligns perfectly with ourMore Info
To coincide with the start of #NoFallsWeek, the Ladder Association are pleased to announce the launch of a new ladder label, designed to promote accredited Ladder Association training to ladder users at work and at home! Available to all Ladder Association members, the label (available in portrait and landscape layouts) can be affixed to theirMore Info
Following on from his appearance on ‘The Roofing Show’ in February, our Executive Director, Peter Bennett OBE, was a guest this week on another of Fix Radio’s popular podcasts – ‘The Electrical Show’. Peter joined host Thomas Nagy to discuss the dangers faced by electricians while working at height. They managed to cover a wholeMore Info
The Ladder Association was shocked to see footage of a recent accident, caught on a driver’s dashcam, involving two men falling from a scaffold tower and ladder in Buckingham, UK. It was nothing short of a miracle that the men appear to have escaped serious injury, or even worse, as they plummeted to the groundMore Info
Ladders appear on the Weatherfield Cobbles For all you Corrie fans, did you catch last Wednesday’s episode featuring the scene on an extension ladder? If you missed it, poor window cleaner Gav had never been up a ladder before, so Tim stepped in to show him the ropes (catching out Tracy Barlow in the process…butMore Info
Peter Bennett OBE talks on The Roofing Show Our Executive Director, Peter Bennett OBE, was a guest recently on Fix Radio’s ‘The Roofing Show’ podcast with Danny Madden, alongside Alistair Kerr (Annandale Roofing) on the topic of Falls from Height. Danny, Fix Radio’s ‘Roofer of the Year 2022’ and a third-generation roofer, was brave enoughMore Info
The Ladder Association has enjoyed a record-breaking year, with particularly strong growth in LadderCard numbers from our training members. We’re delighted to have trained over 15,300 delegates in 2023 thanks to a consistently positive year and a record-breaking November, in which 1889 delegates were trained in that month alone! That’s the highest number in aMore Info
Latest research commissioned by the Ladder Association has again raised serious concerns that unsafe and potentially dangerous ladders continue to be sold via online platforms to unsuspecting consumers in the UK. The market surveillance study, part of the Ladder Association’s ongoing ‘Step Up to Safe Ladders’ campaign, found that 70% of the commercially-available multipurpose laddersMore Info
