THE LADDER ASSOCIATION has launched this year’s Ladder Exchange, which will run from 1 September to 31 December. Established by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in 2007 – and now run and managed by the industry trade body – the campaign has already resulted in thousands of ’dodgy’ ladders being taken out of service.More Info

Martin Brooke, sales director at Nottingham-based Bratts Ladders, is the new chairman of the Ladder Association. He took over from Cameron Clow, managing director of access specialists the Clow Group, at the association’s Annual Members’ Meeting (AMM) at the Moxhull Hall Hotel, Wishaw. A surplus stock broker and sales agent before joining Bratts Ladders in 2003,More Info