Scaffolding

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Welcome
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• Scaffolding
• Lionel Ybanez
• Area Safety Manager

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Team Work
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Average Scaffold

• A average scaffold is made up of 75 scaffold
  components! (5X5x15 tall)
• The scaffold is made up of verticals,
  horizontals, braces, wood or steel planks,
  ladders, brackets, screw jacks, 2x4s, plywood,
  nails, mudsills wire

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What is important before you execute the work

• Have trained personnel (competent person)
• Know your tie-off points for fall protection
• Need the correct material in good working
  condition
• Know the application! What size to erect and how
  much weight will be supported by scaffold (take
  in consideration the workers weight)

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Continued

• Have the correct crew size!
• Evaluate the area for hazards and communicate
  with crew (JSA) (Permit)
• Have a plan to execute the work in the safest
  manner possible
• Once the scaffold is complete, the scaffold will
  be tagged according to the hazards by a competent
  person.

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Hazards

• Working at heights
• Dropped objects
• Pinch points
• Eye protection during erection dismantle
• Lifting procedures
• Confined space/Lock-out Tag-out
• Hazards not fully communicated

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What to look for during audits

• Tie-off points
• Incomplete toe-boards
• Access was not planned thoroughly
• During scaffold jobs material is not kept in good
  order (housekeeping)
• Mudsill not secured to screw jacks
• Crew members not using boards to stand on as they
  erect or dismantle
• Boards not thoroughly inspected

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What to look for during audits

• Crew members walking over stacked material
  (tripping hazard)
• Crew members in the line of fire!
• Dropped objects!
• Barricade not large enough
• Barricades not tagged
• Incomplete scaffolds (handrails, board deck)