Scaffold Safety Awareness

To enable the delegates to be reasonably aware of the various types of scaffold, their uses and construction, faults most commonly encountered, and safe methods, within the job role, to deal with them.

Course Content:

• Applicable legislation, BSEN12811 part 1, HSE recommendations, current industry practice and SG4:15.
• Working platforms and their safe working loads.
• The appreciation of all types of independent, putlog scaffolding.

By the end of the training course delegates will be able to:

• Understand the requirements of the relevant legislation, British Standards Code of Practice and industry standards.
• Identify the safe working loads for working platforms.
• Differentiate between various scaffold systems and for what purpose they should be used.
• Understand statutory inspections of basic independent tied and putlog scaffolds.