It offers guidance on the following mewp types.
Scissor lift mobile elevated work platform.
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Mobile elevated work platform or.
Mewps mobile elevating work platforms.
Mobile elevating work platform does not refer to all bucket trucks vehicle mounted aerial lifts and boom trucks.
Are classified in groups.
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This guidance document has been prepared to assist those working with mobile elevated work platforms mewps.
Group a mewps with platforms that move vertically but stay inside the tipping lines.
The ansi standard definition includes the following vehicle mounted elevating and rotating work platforms.
Boom cherry pickers and vertical scissor lifts.
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Under each group they are classified into types.
The company s diverse product portfolio includes leading brands such as jlg aerial work platforms.
Since scissor lifts are mobile the specific requirements for mobile scaffolds in the scaffold.
Group b all other mewps typically boom type mewps where the platform extends past the machine s chassis.
An aerial work platform awp also known as an aerial device elevating work platform ewp bucket truck or mobile elevating work platform mewp is a mechanical device used to provide temporary access for people or equipment to inaccessible areas usually at height.
Jlg skytrak and lull telehandlers.
Scissor lifts which get their name from their stacked lifting mechanism of crossed tubes that work in a scissor like fashion can also be called vertical lifts self propelled platforms or simply slabs.
Rather it is a term that applies to some equipment including some bridge inspection units and self propelled aerial lifts.
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Other common terms in the work at height industry are machine platform height versus work height the latter being a whole 6 ft higher.
Extensible boom platforms aerial ladders articulating boom platforms vertical towers and a combination of any of the above.
Mobile elevating work platforms or briefly mewps are devices that are used to lift people to areas that are hard to access usually at height.
Around the world the whole category is often referred to as aerial platforms mobile elevating work.
Static vertical for example scissors lifts static vertical personnel platforms static static boom for example self propelled booms outriggers vehicle mounted platforms.
They are ideal for maintenance or construction work.
Mewps or mobile elevated working platforms are powered access machines used in a huge range of construction and warehousing sectors mewps are available in two basic types.
Since these devices are mostly used at altitude they are also called aerial work platforms awps.
