Scaffold Safety

Duration: 25 Minutes      Language: English

Topics Covered:

• Recognize various supported and suspended scaffold types.
  
• Determine qualified individuals for scaffold design, construction, and inspection.
  
• Understand scaffold design and construction requisites, including load limits.
  
• Identify scaffold related hazards, like instability, falls, and electrocution.
  
• Implement safeguards against falls, falling objects, and electrical risks.
  
• Recognize conditions unsuitable for scaffold safety use.
  
• Evaluate scaffold safety through comprehensive inspection criteria.
  

Course Benefits:

• Certificate of Completion. *Valid for 1 year.
  
• Examination record available for employer.
  

Regulations:

• 29 CFR Part 1926, Subpart L, Scaffolds.
  
• 1926. 451 - General Requirements.
  
• 1926. 452 - Additional requirements applicable to specific types of scaffolds.
  
• 1926. 454 - Scaffolds: Training Requirements.
  
• Appendix A - Scaffold Specifications.
  
• Appendix B - Criteria for determining the feasibility of providing safe access and fall protection for scaffold erectors and dismantlers.
  
• Appendix C - List of consensus standards: Scaffolds.
  
• Appendix D - Training topics for scaffolding erectors and dismantlers.
  
• Appendix E - Drawings and Illustrations.
  
• 29 CFR Part 1910, Subpart D, Walking and Working Surfaces.
  
• 1910.28 - Safety requirements for scaffolding.
  
• 1910.29 - Manually propelled ladder stands and scaffolds (towers).
  
• Scaffolding & Access Industry Association (SAIA).
  
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI) A-10.8 (1988) Scaffold Safety Standard for Construction.
  
• ANSI / SSFI SC-100 (2005) Standard for Testing and Rating Scaffold Assemblies and Components.