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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration was created by the United States Congress in 1970 in response to the injuries and deaths that were occurring in American workplaces. The law requires that employers provide “employees employment and a place of employment which are free from...

Well, are you competent? What if your boss asks you if you are competent? What if you are interviewing for a job and you are asked if you are competent in what you do? What will you answer? I’d like to think that I am competent in what I do. As you may know, I write an article for this magazine. Am...

Some thoughts on scaffold training: User training is optional: OSHA requires that all scaffold users be trained in the awareness of certain hazards prior, that’s right, prior to getting on a scaffold. This training is to be provided by a qualified person. That would be somebody that knows about...

What goes up, must come down is the old saying that doesn’t mean a darn thing to me. Maybe it has something to do with the stock market; sure doesn’t have anything to do with scaffolding, unless of course, you are thinking about access for the scaffold. Experience suggests that there are common...

Editor’s Note: The opinion expressed in this article does not necessarily reflect the opinions or policy of the Scaffold Industry Association. It’s time to make some changes. Since 1996 we’ve been wrestling with fall protection for scaffold erectors without resolution. It’s time to make changes to...