LEEA’s library provides a lifting knowledge bank
When conducting lifting related tasks, advice needs to be particularly trustworthy to give the practitioner the confidence they require to carry out their work without risk of being led towards potential disaster in the form of straying from regulations, damage or an accident, writes Amro Hassan, LEEA Regional Manager – Middle East.
Fortunately, there is a library dedicated to lifting and it can be found on the LEEA website, leeaint.com. The LEEA Library has curated a remarkably extensive collection of documents and resources related to the lifting industry. While LEEA members have access to the full range of free-to-download documents and also receive discounts on purchased items, there is a substantial amount of information available to non-members to download for free. This includes a selection of documents, LEEA-produced videos on a range of topics, informative presentations and links to open learning such as the End User Guidance CPD (Continuous Professional Development) Course.
Crucially, the LEEA Code of Practice for the Safe Use of Lifting Equipment (COPSULE) is available to download free and there is an interactive searchable version. This is a recommended Code of Practice, providing expert guidance on safe lifting practice. LEEA’s strives to promote enhanced standards for the worldwide lifting industry. By making our Code of Practice freely available, we hope that more end users will be able to access it so that eventually best practice becomes normal practice.
Having acquired information, it is generally beneficial to share it among your associated team of lifting practitioners. Sharing information increases productivity and improves employee relations. Exchanging ideas enables people to work together successfully, increases performance and improves the quality of work produced. This should ultimately result in boosting growth in an organisation.
The more LEEA grows as an association the more it learns and the more, therefore, we can add to our ever-expanding library. Anybody involved in lifting in the Middle East region should spend some time in the LEEA Library at leeaint.com/leea-library – you may just learn something.
