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Sustainable Work for Data Center Maintenance

Sustainable Work for Data Center Maintenance
By Power Towers

Data center sustainability is more than being carbon neutral and taking care of the earth.  It is also about providing the right work conditions for the skilled workers that are tasked with maintaining, repairing and refitting the myriad of systems that keep information flowing through the data centers – especially for work that has to be done at heights.  Traditionally, this work has been done with ladders, podiums, step-ups and scaffolding.

At Power Towers, we are passionate about providing alternatives to these traditional devices that will increase efficiency while reducing body stress, fatigue and risk to life.  Our product line-up of powered, push-around and non-powered platforms will eliminate climbing up and down ladder rungs and the need to balance while over-reaching and overstretching.  We can ensure that your operators will work sustainably at an optimum work position that will keep them healthy and motivated by showing them there is another, better way.

To achieve our objectives, Power Towers performs ergonomic tests to determine the forces acting on known musculoskeletal stress points to ensure that our solutions minimize these effects.  We also compare our solutions to the traditional devices to accurately measure the improvements for the human body.  These tests are performed using the latest biomechanical, motion detection and muscle sensing technology available.   The results can be seen in the growth of Power Towers from its founding in 2007 as an innovative UK start-up ready to disrupt the ladder and scaffolding industry to its purchase by JLG Industries, Inc. (A global leader for working at height solutions) in 2015 to the inauguration of a new factory in the UK in 2020.   The thousands of machines sold and being operated today demonstrate how companies around the world, including members of the Dutch Data Association, are making the change to a more sustainable work at height environment.

The Healthy Workplaces Campaign 2020-22 – Lighten the Load sponsored by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, indicates that 60% of all workers with a work-related health problem, identify musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) as their most serious issue.  MSD work-related accidents are also among the most common accidents that occur.  Workers with MSDs tend to be absent more often and longer than others with the associated impact to operational efficiency.

This data clearly indicates the need to continue to modernize the way tasks are performed and Power Towers has the solutions that can catalyze the change to make working at heights more sustainable.
If you are building the future, why climb in the past?

Contact info:
www.powertowers.com
rob.tuithof@powertowers.com
rfpuglia@jlg.com

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