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Ipaf expide en 2011 cerca de 100.000 documentos PALIpaf Issues in 2011 near of 100.000 documents PAL
16 January 2012
A total of 101.457 people have completed, during the past year, a course of learning of Ipaf (International Powered Access Federation) in 2011. Said courses, for operators and for managers, issue the renowned carné PAL (Powered Access License) and a certificate of assistance, respectively. The centres of learning recognised by Ipaf, of all the world, issued in the 2011 a record quantity of 97.488 documents PAL, 13,9% more than the 85.605 carnés PAL of the 2010. These, with force of five years, guarantee that his headline possesses the necessary learning to operate aerial platforms of safe and effective way. The program of learning of operators for the obtaining of the carné PAL of IPAF has been certified by the body of inspection TÜV as according to ISO 18878. To finals of the 2011, Ipaf had already near of 900 affiliated all over the world. More than half of the affiliated comes from at present of out of the United Kingdom and the membership keeps growing in places like EE UU and Brazil or the sudeste of Asia.
The Federation calculates that nowadays there is some 400.000 carnés PAL valid in circulation.