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Fall protection is a hot issue. Let’s face it – who wants to fall? The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) clearly expects scaffold users to have some form of fall protection when on a scaffold platform above ten feet. Usually that protection is a guardrail system on...

Previous articles have discussed various portions of the new OSHA regulations that address scaffold use and erection, including the new requirements that specify that a competent person evaluate each scaffold erection project for the feasibility of providing erectors with safe access and fall...

The letter I wrote last month concerning Mr. Schapira’s plank article created an uproar of untold proportions! My sole purpose for writing the letter was to clarify for safety officers, suppliers and users, that federal law, as it pertains to construction, does not require scaffold grade plank. My...

The side bracket, that triangular shaped thing that hangs on the side of scaffold legs, is a familiar scaffold component. Side brackets, also known as outriggers, are common to both frame and systems scaffolds. (Outriggers, as used here, should not be confused with the outriggers that are used at...

Previous articles discussed scaffold regulations and scaffold training requirements, issues that obviously are important but don’t necessarily tell us how to erect or use a mobile scaffold properly. Mobile scaffolds, also known as rolling towers (formerly known in the old OSHA regulations as...