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I believe that it’s safe to assume that if you are reading this article, you survived Y2K. In fact it’s nice to know that we are starting a new year having survived the previous year, especially if you look at the odds of not surviving. More than 41,000 people died in auto accidents in 1998. And...

In January of this year I wrote an article titled “A Better New Year?” The article described fatality statistics in the construction industry. If you will recall, in 1997 there were almost 700 fall related deaths which means that, on average, there were at least two deaths per workday attributed to...

Have you ever wondered why a scaffold can support loads? Have you ever wondered how an engineer can determine what a scaffold leg can support? Do you wonder who thought up the way to answer those questions? Wonder no more. Thanks to Swiss physicist Leonhard Euler, (typically pronounced “Oiler”), a...

Scaffold platforms are arguably the most important component of a scaffold but yet are probably the least understood. Questions repeatedly arise about the strength of platforms, the expectations that users have for platforms, and the requirements that various regulatory agencies have developed for...

Connections are everything, or so we are told. Political connections promote the aspirations of some while business connections promote the success of others. But what does that have to do with scaffolding? Just as business or social connections are important to individuals, connections of...