Maintaining industrial machinery is hard work, and can be dangerous due to the size and scale of some plant machinery.  Food production, brewing, oil refining and many other industrial practices involve the use of complicated and large equipment.  This equipment needs regular maintenance and repairs, and accessing the parts which need attention requires the right [...]

After so much time at home over the past 12 months you might think that everyone's been completing their DIY jobs and that this spring is the time to relax, wouldn’t you? However, there will always be jobs around the home that need doing, such as window cleaning, painting and maintenance.  The loss of income [...]

In September last year, disaster nearly struck at Birmingham airport when a step ladder fell from a maintenance truck onto the runway, and was narrowly missed by three landing aircraft.  The stepladder had been loaded into the back of a flatbed truck and secured with a bungee cord; which was stretched so far that it [...]

For many of us wooden ladders are a thing of the past, nice to use for interior decoration, or for putting in a museum, but not for actually using.  It may not be the easiest thing to find a new wooden ladder, but there are some manufacturers out there still making them.  Wooden or timber [...]