Allan Hewitt designed and produced the originally safety notice database and presented it to members of the BPA at an annual AGM back in 1996, at this time it was a windows 95 installation disk, it was then updated for a presentation in 2000 for use with windows 98.

This presentation shows the access based database with its limited capabilities and functions but even then it was a very good way to search for safety notices specific to the equipment your currently working on.

With all the feed back from riggers and reserve packers over the years we have now updated it once again it and given it a complete make over with many improvements.

Previously all safety notices were scanned in copies and stored in jpg format making it a very memory intensive system in the days when we were happy with a computer that had 80 mb's not 80 gbs, so it had its draw backs and could only be used by riggers dedicated to making it work.

It had to be updated by each individual rigger, a lot of riggers never had easy access to a computer and with all the microsoft updates it became a problem to install and keep it working on different platforms i.e. win 95, win 98, win xp etc so the enthusiasm to keep this going slowly died with the limited resources available.

It was initially built to be part of a BPA rigging manual which was never completed , amazingly due to reasons that were not related to the function or ability of the database. I kept it updated for my own business and gave away hundreds of CD's to anyone who requested a copy.

After years of using and testing new ideas it was obvious that a project like this needed funding to make it a viable and usable tool which is why this web site has been developed

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