IPAF Rental+

IPAF Rental+ is a Health & Safety Certification that is awarded to member rental companies who have been audited to achieve higher than average standards in service, safety, staff training, contract terms and machine inspection. Each audited company gets a return visit from the auditors every year. Rental+ offers the safest possible hire available from a professional Access hire company!

Training

• All delivery drivers must be trained and competent to provide demonstrations of the machines.
• All engineers must have appropriate qualifications, whether as full service and maintenance engineers, or as PDI inspectors.
• All hire desk staff must be trained so that they can understand what a customer wants to stop mistakes from happening through providing inappropriate machines.

Booking

• Procedures must be in place to ensure the right questions are asked to ascertain what machine is best for the job, and if the customer is uncertain, to offer to conduct a site-survey.

Cross-hire

• Where cross-hire is used, the companies who provide this service do so to the levels set out in IPAF Rental+.

Maintenance

• All appropriate PDI and maintenance paperwork/records must be kept.

Delivery

• When a machine is handed over to a customer, there must be an offer of a demonstration of the machine for the purposes of familiarisation with its controls.
• There must also be proof of this question having been asked, and there should be a system in place to deal with circumstances in which this familiarisation is not possible.

Other areas

IPAF also verifies that a company has processes and policies in place for dealing with issues such as customer satisfaction, insurance, and health and safety.