{"id":13182,"date":"2024-05-23T07:47:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T07:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=13182"},"modified":"2024-05-23T07:47:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T07:47:05","slug":"leea-leads-high-quality-glad2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/leea-leads-high-quality-glad2024\/","title":{"rendered":"LEEA Leads High Quality #GLAD2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA)<\/a> has moved products, inspection, and training to the front of its Global Lifting Awareness Day (GLAD)<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n

As #GLAD2024 approaches on Thursday 18 July, LEEA<\/a> is sharpening its focus on the importance of surrounding these three cornerstones of lifting with high quality.<\/p>\n

GLAD<\/a> is an established event where its members, manufacturers, and suppliers lead those sharing material that promotes safe and high quality load lifting across the world. Social media posts, videos, articles, and in-person activity are bound together by the hashtag, #GLAD2024.<\/p>\n

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Global Lifting Awareness Day 2024 \u2014 #GLAD2024 \u2014 will take place on 18 July.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ross Moloney, CEO at LEEA<\/a>, said: \u201cIt\u2019s about the ongoing battle between cost and quality. We all know that buying decisions are made for a multitude of reasons, but we want people to make sure those choices are always based on quality. It is perhaps easy for some not to think there\u2019s any difference in quality and that all equipment and services are the same; we\u2019re saying this isn\u2019t the case. It\u2019s why we constantly refer to skills, standards, and high levels of competency. This is a specialist industry, where high quality is a minimum requirement.\u201d\"\"<\/p>\n

LEEA<\/a> has already circulated three graphics based on high quality products, inspection, and training, all of which attach the trifecta to existing #GLAD2024 publicity. The message chimes with LEEA<\/a>\u2019s organisational vision to eliminate accidents, injuries, and fatalities, placing further emphasis on skills and employment, which had emerged as front-running themes when the fifth GLAD<\/a> drive was launched.<\/p>\n

Moloney added: \u201cWe are in a risky industry, and these are three key ways by which we can eliminate risk; accidents occur when these three things fail. Product matters, but because it was once compliant doesn\u2019t mean it always will be, hence the need for ongoing inspection, and this must be conducted by a high quality individual, who has been trained to the highest standards.\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is where the LEEA<\/a> logo fits,\u201d Moloney continued. \u201cJoining our association means you become associated with high quality providers. Our members go through an audit where we help them to check and improve their processes and practices. And on an ongoing basis our members access training developed and devised by 1,000 members worldwide. We\u2019re not making this content up ourselves\u00a0\u2014 it\u2019s written by the industry, for the industry. Above and beyond GLAD<\/a>, it\u2019s a clear market signal to end users: if you are involved in lifting, look for the LEEA<\/a> logo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moloney delivered a well-received presentation, centred on GLAD<\/a>, to the Associated Wire Rope Fabricators (AWRF) Spring General Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee last month (April). It was a delegation united in understanding that there is no low-risk job in the lifting industry, and the entire global community must be trained and competent. Further, it is a sector that is offering work opportunities, especially to younger people looking to become trained and qualified.\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cSkills in our industry pays the bills,\u201d roared Moloney. \u201cYou get trained and qualified, and there are work opportunities in our high tech, high quality industry. A perception endures that lifting is all about heft and physicality, but our people fight gravity and do dangerous things. They all need to be trained and competent, so there are no unskilled occupations. We provide training and we strongly encourage end users to make sure that anyone they work with is trained and work ready. Look at our TEAM card initiative for evidence.”<\/p>\n