High risers join forces in commercial cleaning.Recognizing the need to improve the level of safety for exterior maintenance workers and professional window cleaners at high-rise commercial properties, Bob Zeola, president of American-Anchor, and Stefan Bright, safety director of the International Window Cleaning Association, have joined together to open a new location in central New Jersey. On May 1, 2004, Bright will join American Anchor and take charge of the Mid Atlantic Mid Atlantic can mean:
Bright noted that "this location will allow fast response and assessment at sites in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Washington, D.C." Headquartered in Boston, American Anchor's specialty is providing timely and effective safety solutions for window cleaners, building maintenance contractors, property managers, architects and general contractors in order to address fall protection, work site safety and compliance with American National Standards (ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. ) and OSHA OSHA n. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a branch of the US Department of Labor responsible for establishing and enforcing safety and health standards in the workplace. regulations. Stefan has more than 25 years experience in the window cleaning and exterior building maintenance industries. He currently serves as safety director of the 1WCA (Web Clipping Application) An application for a Palm PDA that accepts an abbreviated version of a Web page for efficient display on the PDA's limited screen size. , provides safety training to window cleaning companies worldwide as a consultant and is extremely involved on all ANSI committees relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the industry, including chair of the 1-14 Window Cleaning Safety Standard. Stefan's abilities include being well versed in industry codes, standards and regulations, site assessment and fall protection requirements and solutions that provide safe work conditions. Bob Zeolla, the company president, also has over 25 years experience in the industry. Over the last five years, American Anchor has installed the Pro-Bel line of fall protection equipment on numerous commercia properties in the New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. area. "Stefan has educated many of the people in this industry, including myself," Zeolla said. "Having him on board will help us to better understand our industry's needs with regards to using proper fall protection and understanding the requirements of both the building owners and the contractors." |
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