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It’s that time of year when cold weather scaffold users start wrapping scaffolds in enclosures for weather protection and warmth. Since wrapping a scaffold in an enclosure seriously changes the forces that are applied to scaffolds, the installation of such systems must be carefully designed and...

Exciting times these are for the scaffold industry. Years of meetings are producing results. People are communicating, discussing, listening, and working on making scaffold products safer and safer. And yet, workers are still getting injured and killed while using and working with scaffolds. What...

Rules, rules, and more rules. Rules are made to be broken. What good are the rules if nobody follows them? Why do I have to follow the rules when my competition doesn’t? The other guy doesn’t follow the rules and he doesn’t get caught; it’s not a level playing field! I’ll follow the rules as soon...

The federal government’s approach to scaffold erector safety won’t work. The scaffold industry’s present approach to safety won’t work either. Why? Simply stated, it’s the lack of information that will make the present approaches ineffective. It is true that the government has sufficient potential...

While everybody says they are for safety, sometimes actions speak louder than words. As the saying goes, sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees. The intrigue surrounding the scaffold regulations, as written by Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is surprising. If...