WHAT IS PIPA?

About the Scheme

The PIPA scheme was originally set up to be an online database to record inflatable safety inspections against PIPA tags on inflatable devices. After a request to improve the industry, PIPA drafted a 5-year plan alongside HSE to take PIPA inspector training and examination in-house. PIPA is now responsible for the competancy, professionalism, and skill of PIPA inspectors when the carry out a PIPA inspection.

Our new PIPA website and inspection portal provides our stakeholders with further assurance in the work we do. This is down to:

  • Having built-in compliance to ensure inspections are completed on the date and time they say they were, and also at the named location
  • Having built-in compliance to require all required fields within inspection reports to be completed
  • Having full traceability on the inspection report recording process and any subsequent changes
  • Locking in inspection report data and preventing future changes
  • Being built on the latest technology to ensure the cloud-based system has almost 100% uptime

The scheme continues to expand in all directions. From not only increasing the scope of what can be inspected under the scheme rules, but also capturing more parts of the inflatable industry.

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