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Why do we fear an inspection, particularly a scaffold inspection? Mr. Webster, in his dictionary, describes an inspection as a “Careful investigation, a critical examination, to examine or review officially, to look at carefully.” How does this relate to scaffold, you ask? How does this relate to...

Life is good when we get the quick fix! As children, our restless minds never want to work out the solution; just tell us the answer. Never mind how to get that answer. As adults, I’m not convinced our attitudes have changed much. Only the stakes have changed. We still strive for those easy...

Remove the crossbrace; it’s in the way! If the scaffold doesn’t fall over, apparently the brace isn’t needed! Those people who put in all the braces don’t know how to build scaffolds! Before you get too excited, the foregoing statements are not true—please keep reading! Scaffolds are temporary...

I believe that it’s safe to assume that if you are reading this article, you survived Y2K. In fact it’s nice to know that we are starting a new year having survived the previous year, especially if you look at the odds of not surviving. More than 41,000 people died in auto accidents in 1998. And...

In January of this year I wrote an article titled “A Better New Year?” The article described fatality statistics in the construction industry. If you will recall, in 1997 there were almost 700 fall related deaths which means that, on average, there were at least two deaths per workday attributed to...