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Interesting thoughts and observations: • The US Congress passed the law that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, in 1970. Why it that some people still don’t know who or what OSHA is? • There were 5.5 million workplace injuries in 1998, according to the Department of...

The scaffolding standards of care can be ambiguous if not at times downright bizarre. Between the requirements of safety standards, the demands of the market place, and the confusion of inconsistent safety enforcement, it’s a wonder that there is any agreement within the industry. It’s amazing to...

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...