Posted By Peter Zunda Hello Ian, been looking into a similar problem myself, spotted these on my trawls through the WorldWideWait; http://www.midlandladder...der_Platform-168-94.html http://www.midlandladder...ile_Platform-255-96.html

Posted By Ian G Hutchings Peter and Colin Many thanks for the pointers. All the best Ian

Posted By OldNick I've been asked to look into a similar issue myself but in my case the members of staff would only need an approx 50cm boost to work on air con units on the side of a portacabin. I work for a large engineering company and as such we do have RA's in place for working at heights but this stipulates a minimum of 3 points of contact on ladders/stepladders at any one time (e.g. 2 feet & 1 hand, 2 feet and harness). The work itself would not usually take longer than 20 mins but would require the technician to use both hands and because of this a stepladder is not the ideal piece of equipment because of a lack of a secure 3rd point of contact. As such I'm looking at the possibility of recommending a portable 'hop up' step (with suitable RA) as a method to be able to undertake this work but I'm not sure of what additional legal (pardon the pun here!) pitfalls that would accompany this. What are the thoughts out there? Is this something that other would consider as a solution to this problem?