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Scaffolding as a means to mitigate the risks of working at height?

  • Writer: technocraft industries
    technocraft industries
  • Apr 23, 2019
  • 3 min read

Among the 5 major violations reported in the US UU., 3 are related to work at height: scenarios in which it may be necessary to access through stairs or temporary structures.

These represented a 52% majority of reported serious violations, while fall protection also led the tables under intentional infractions, which stretches the severity of these problems. When scaling these figures from a security context in India, it would be safe to estimate that these figures will increase at least 2-3 times. The addition of voluntary infractions (by definition) would actually increase these numbers of security infractions that were already serious, by a sum of 5 times. The security context of India has features of neglect and careless attitudes within a security framework not applied.


Safe scaffolding allows safe work "


The safe scaffolds that confirm the standards and are certified for quality through inspections and audits are still a great challenge, if we refer to the premise we have created so far. Working at height contributes significantly to accidents and serious incidents that occur in any workplace around the world. And we can link the need for safety attributed through the construction of safe scaffolds that mitigate most of the hazards that have been previously recorded.


Work at height, whether in construction and construction or repair work, requires reliable temporary structures that have an established safety system. A system that can be examined by competent scaffolding personnel, such as the scaffolding design engineer, the competent inspector or supervisor and the post-erection verified by them, equally. Secure scaffolding with quality components and in the hands of trained and certified scaffolding, offers this potential directly available to contractors or organisations. The scaffolding management system based on software offers great potential in this context.


They can provide secure work platforms that essentially allow a worker or engineers to perform their tasks. Since these are high up in the sky or, sometimes, even suspended or overhanging the roofs, a work team looks for confidence in safety. Safe scaffolds generate this exact confidence by providing reliable, secure and stable work platforms, your base of operations in work at height.


Safe scaffolding systems integrate safety in their design, construction and operations through a world-class quality management program. It starts from certified scaffolding trainings for the personnel involved, who is involved in the construction, dismantling and any associated work. To ensure the safe execution of the scaffold, an adequate scaffolding management system must be formulated and implemented. There are three main factors that guarantee the safe execution of the scaffolding; This standard The provision of safe scaffolding is further strengthened by regular inspections and on-site audits, which can effectively anticipate, identify and mitigate the risks and dangers related to height and work at height.


Safe scaffolding means accident reduction


Safe scaffolding is not just to help deliver work safely. They can also accelerate the overall efficiency of work in two ways. In the first place, work platforms at height, better and more reliable, means that the work team has confidence in the execution of their tasks with proactive protection at their side. Second, this promotes efficiency and faster response times from work teams. The parts and pieces of each work task at height go back to where they should be or be redeployed to give place to another secure work platform.


The training related to the secure scaffolding system is the knowledge tool that can drive the message within the work teams and make them more and more competent to perform such work. The importance of using safe scaffolding and following the protocols when working at height must be defined in planning / management procedures / documents, so it must be part of the real work and should not be considered as additional ones. Burden on the cost of the project and planned work.


A vitally designed scaffolding management system that provides a safe working platform, which means that you can control most accidents related to working at height and that 75-80% of accidents can be minimised all kinds of industries. Although it seems a challenge to adapt this system effectively, it is only a matter of planning, not cost. Therefore, choosing the right partner / contractor in terms of scaffolding and safety can facilitate such challenges and make work at height, safer.

 
 
 

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