Course Overview
This course is designed for anyone who is involved in working at heights using scaffold. This session will give an appreciation of the hazards and control measures for scaffolds and how to ensure if the erected platform is safe to use or not.
Training Contents
- Introduction / Pre-Course Test
- Definitions & Terminology
- Relevant Regulations and Codes of Practice
- Fall Arrest Equipment
- Scaffolding Types
- Scaffolding Components
- Basic Scaffold Setup
- Foundations & Ground Conditions
- Working Platforms
- Methods of Access & Egress
- Independent Scaffolding
- Openings and Bridges
- Protection of the Public
- Handling Materials on Scaffolding
- PFAS
- Scaffolding Tags
- Site visit of scaffold structures
- Safe Scaffold Erection
- Ties & Stability
- Bracing and tying scaffolds
- Fan boards and public protection
- Mobile, Static, and Loading Towers
- Birdcage scaffolds
- Beams and Bridging Beams
- Putlog Scaffolds
- Chimney–stack Scaffolding
- Temporary Edge Protection
- Scaffold dismantling
- Scaffold material storage
- Scaffold Erection Practical – Mobile Tower Erection, Static Tower Erection, Scaffold Ties
- Scaffold inspection exercises
- Scaffold Inspection reports exercise
- Exam
