Renting a MEWP? Here’s Why You Should Consider a Certified Operator Too
Hiring a Mobile Elevating Work Platform (MEWP) is the easy part. Getting the right person to operate it safely is where most sites run into trouble — and it’s often the piece that gets left until the last minute.
At Kwick Access Rentals, you don’t have to solve that separately. Alongside every machine we hire out in Johannesburg, we offer a certified operator as a billable add-on service — someone trained, qualified, and ready to run the equipment safely for the duration of your hire, at an additional cost on top of the machine hire.
Why This Matters More Than It Seems
Under South Africa’s Driven Machinery Regulations and the Occupational Health and Safety Act, only trained and authorised persons may operate a MEWP. That’s not a box-ticking requirement — untrained operators are a leading cause of overturns, falls, and equipment damage on site.
For a lot of businesses, the equipment is the easy call. Finding someone in-house who’s certified, available, and free on the day the machine arrives is the harder one. That gap is exactly what this add-on service solves.
What You Get With a Kwick Access Certified Operator
As a billable add-on to your machine hire, you get:
- Qualified operators — trained and certified to operate the specific machine you’ve hired, not just “someone who’s driven one before”
- On-site support — your operator arrives with the machine and works the platform for the duration of the job, so your team can focus on the actual work being done at height
- Safe and efficient operations — a trained operator doesn’t just reduce risk, they get the job done faster, because they know the machine’s limits and how to position it properly the first time
Who This Is For
This add-on makes the most sense when:
- You need a machine for a short-term or once-off job and don’t have a certified operator on your books
- Your usual operator is unavailable and the job can’t wait
- You’re running a job that needs an unfamiliar machine type — a different boom configuration or working height than your team normally handles
- You’d rather remove operator liability and training gaps from your side of the job entirely
How It Works
When you request a quote for your MEWP hire, simply let our hire desk know you’d like to add a certified operator. We’ll build the operator cost into your quote upfront, match the right operator to the machine and the job, and have them on-site and ready to work when your equipment arrives.
Quoting the machine and the operator together, from the same place, means one point of contact, one invoice, and one less thing that can go wrong on site.
Ready to add a certified operator to your next hire? Get in touch with our Johannesburg hire desk when you request your quote.
Kwick Access Rentals — access equipment and the trained people to run it. Part of our commitment to safer work at height, as covered in our Smart Start Monday series.