Scaffold Safety
Presentation
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Scaffold Safety
All employees shall be
protected from falls of six
feet or more by the use of an
approved fall protection
system
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Scaffold Safety
Approved Fall Protection Systems:
Fall Arrest System
• Full Body Harness/Lanyard/Lifeline
Ladders
Scaffold System
• Guardrail System
• Planking
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Scaffold Safety
General Requirements
• Must be supervised by a competent person
• Sound footing or anchorage
• Don’t use unstable objects as
supports
• Use guardrails
• Use screen
• Use full planking
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Scaffold Safety
General Requirements
• Legs should be plumb
• Eliminate slippery conditions
• Post safety rules
• Scaffold shall be tied and fully braced
• Shall be capable of supporting 4x the design
load
• Plan or drawing approved by Structural
Engineer
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Scaffold Safety
General Requirements
• Avoid power lines
• Approval for multiple usage
• Ladders should have landing
• Use outrigger or outboard safety support
• Provide independent safety lines
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Scaffold Safety
Personnel Requirements
• Must be supervised
• Provide access ladder or equivalent
• Work during severe weather condition is
prohibited
• Extend and overlap planks
• Do not ride on rolling scaffold
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Scaffold Safety
Personnel Requirements
• Secure all materials and equipment
• Apply brakes at all times
• Should be inspected on a daily basis
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Scaffold Safety
Interstitial Work
Temporary work platforms/Walkways (Scaffolds
and boards)
• Personnel shall have a secured safety
lanyard
• Provide safe means of ingress/egress
• Area should be fully barricaded
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Missing Planks
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Missing Guardrails
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Improper Access
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Stupid Set-ups
⚫ The plank is
supported by an
extension ladder, a
closed step ladder
and a straight
ladder.
⚫ The guardrails are
not acceptable.
⚫ There is no stability
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Scaffold Requirements
⚫ Be on a firm foundation with base plates
⚫ Be plumb, square and adequately braced
⚫ Have a fully planked work deck
⚫ Have guardrails over 10 feet
⚫ Be tied in over 4 Vert./1 Horiz. high
⚫ Have an adequate means of access
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Scaffold Capacity
⚫ Must be able support its own weight and
4 times the maximum intended load.
⚫ Scaffolds must be designed by a qualified
person.
⚫ They must and built and loaded within
design.
Competent Persons
⚫ All scaffolds must be
erected, moved,
dismantled or altered
only under the
supervision of a
competent person
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Scaffold Foundations
⚫ Scaffolds must have
base plates, even
when setting on a
concrete floor.
⚫ Also, the lack of a
base plate could
damage the scaffold
leg.
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Scaffold Foundations
⚫ Scaffold legs must be
set on base plates and
adequate mudsills.
⚫ There is no base plate
and the scrap plywood
is not adequate.
⚫ The scaffold frame
could penetrate the
plywood.
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Never on Masonry!
⚫ Scaffolds should never
be set on bricks,
masonry blocks, etc.
⚫ These are not
structural elements
and could crush under
the scaffold load.
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Good Foundations
Frames
Mason’s Adjustable
Hydro-mobile
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Plumb & Level The Scaffold
⚫ It all starts in the
first bay.
⚫ If it is set plumb and
square, the rest will
follow.
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Mobile Full Guardrails
Scaffolds
Fully Planked
Deck
Proper
Access
All Frame
Bracing
Stack Pins
Locked
Level
Diagonal
Surface
Brace
Total Height Less than 4 times Base 22
Training Requirements
⚫ Workers must be trained in
– Nature of electrical, fall, and falling object hazards
– Correct procedures for protection of above
– Proper use of the scaffold
– Load capacities of scaffolds
– Requirements of OSHS
⚫ Retraining as necessary to restore proficiency
BAD!
Pump Jack
Scaffolds
⚫ Must have an 18”
platform.
⚫ Must have guardrails
or other fall protection
GOOD!
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WORKING FROM ELEVATED WORK
SURFACES
NOTHING IS SO
URGENT THAT IT CAN
NOT BE DONE SAFELY
!!!
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WORKING FROM ELEVATED WORK
SURFACES
IF IT CAN’T BE
DONE SAFELY,
DON’T DO IT AT
ALL
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WORKING FROM ELEVATED WORK
SURFACES
LET US ALL WORK TOGETHER
TOWARDS AN INJURY-FREE
WOKPLACE
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