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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...

There appears to be a certain amount of confusion concerning the application of the OSHA regulations that address fall protection for scaffold erectors. In fact, from the number of questions and inquiries, I wonder if anybody is understanding what the regulations really require. The regulations...