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Hoists and elevators are invaluable productivity enhancement devices used in project construction and renovation. It would be impossible to complete today’s projects without hoists and elevators to move workers and materials vertically. The Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration,...

Last month we offered a quiz for you to take to test your knowledge of the OSHA scaffold standards. Well, here’s the answers. As you recall, it was suggested that the quiz be taken two ways, one closed book, the other open book. The purpose was to simulate answering the questions in the field...

Experience indicates that certain scaffold safety issues remain unresolved in the minds of those responsible for safety. More specifically, it appears that fall protection requirements and access requirements are not understood. So, let’s see if we can sort out the issues. Fall protection for...

I was on a jobsite recently with a good friend of mine who also happens to be a scaffold sales representative. We were there to evaluate a particularly interesting scaffold situation that involved placing scaffold on a roof of unknown capacity. But this article isn’t about that; it’s about what was...

Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a federal agency that developed a set of regulations governing scaffold access. These regulations were thought to be perfect, or about as perfect as regulations could be. The scaffold industry was invited to comment on these regulations. In fact, the...