Here is a list of safety tips you should pass on as reminders to your employees to keep them safe on scaffold:
- Ensure scaffold is sound, rigid and sufficient to carry its own weight plus four times the maximum intended load without settling or displacement.
- Erect the scaffold on solid footing
- DO NOT use unstable objects, such as barrels, boxes, loose bricks or concrete blocks, to support scaffold or planks
- DO NOT erect, move, dismantle or alter scaffold except under the supervision of a competent person.
- Equip all scaffold with a guardrails, midrails and toeboards.
- Immediately repair or replace scaffold accessories, such as braces, brackets, trusses, screw legs or ladders, that are damaged or weakened from any cause
- Ensure scaffold platforms are tightly planked with scaffold plank grade material or its equal.
- Make certain that a competent person (per OSHA) inspects all scaffolding and re-inspects it at designated times.
- Instruct employees about the hazards of using diagonal braces as fall protection.
- Access scaffold only by using ladders and stairwells.
- Keep scaffolds at least 10ft. from electric power lines at all times.
