Concretepumping.com is pleased to announce that Robert (Rob) Edwards has accepted the title of Safety Professional for concretepumping.com.

Rob has been in the concrete pumping industry since 1978, starting as a pump operator in Minnesota. He is currently employed as the Director of Product Safety and Development for Alliance Concrete Pumps out of British Columbia. Rob has a great deal of experience in pump safety. When he worked for Schwing America, he wrote the original Safety Manual , plus the Safety Manual for Ready Mix Truck Drivers, and the CoWorker Safety Rules. He has written several articles for Concrete Pumping magazine, and Concretepumping.com. He's been one of the instructors on safety topics at the World of Concrete, the Con-Ag, the Latin American World of Concrete in Mexico City, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He's given sworn testimony in somewhere over fifty lawsuits regarding concrete pumps. Rob is currently president of the CPMA, and is the chair of the ASME committee that developed the safety standard for concrete pumps (ASME B30.27), which is an American National Standard.

Rob will be guest writing articles for the website, and watching the website for misinformation and unsafe practices. I'm very happy that Rob has agreed to perform this valuable service for the benefit of the operators and workers around pumps. Please join me in welcoming Rob to the concretepumping.com experience.

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