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How to Ensure Safety While Shoring an Existing Structure Shoring existing structures can be a tricky business. Typically, the older the building is the more complicated the shoring of it can become. Many older structures do not have drawings of the existing construction and if they do, they are not...

Is a mast-climbing work platform a scaffold? This is a common question due to conflicting information provided by OSHA. The quick answer to the question is yes, but determining the applicability of OSHA standards for mast climbers requires a bit of research, a real understanding of what a mast...

Insurance is a big deal. There’s life insurance, medical insurance, insurance for insurance (reinsurance) and scaffold insurance, to name a few. Generally, the purpose of insurance is to reduce financial risk for an individual entity; frankly, another way to look at it is that insurance shares the...

While some may believe there are no useful regulations, and certainly the actions of some scaffold users would confirm that belief, the OSHA standards (regulations) governing how we use scaffolds are actually quite, well useful. Included are exciting minimum requirements such as who is to inspect...

Moving vertically on a construction project can be a challenge. While stairs are normally available, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to use those to climb 50 stories unless you are interested in a lot of exercise! Consequently hoists, elevators and lifts are frequently used to transport...