[Bill Doig]

Manufacturers design wind speed is based on EN 280:2001 +A2. The rated wind speed is 12.5 metres/sec. Altec and Versalift did say they have lifts that are capable of more than that but there isn’t any change in their design. We had anemometers listed as a control in our risk register. When going into the field to verify the controls, general consensus from field operators was they didn’t use them. (From couldn’t find them to flat batteries.) One Filipino was quite succinct – 12.5 metres/second is white caps on the sea. We wouldn’t go up in anything near that