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People do the most amazing things. Take the “scaffold” application illustrated in the two photographs. The photos, contributed by Mr. Steve Schuler of Carl Schuler Masonry Construction Company in Waterloo, Iowa, depicts a scaffold constructed of lumber and mounted to a Ford Pick-up Truck. A cursory...

The new year always brings resolutions that promise to make one’s life better, break bad habits, improve one’s health, lose weight, gain weight, stop smoking, and who knows what else. ( My latest resolution is to not make any resolutions.) In this era of increased safety awareness I wonder if...

Exciting times these are for the scaffold industry. Years of meetings are producing results. People are communicating, discussing, listening, and working on making scaffold products safer and safer. And yet, workers are still getting injured and killed while using and working with scaffolds. What...

Rules, rules, and more rules. Rules are made to be broken. What good are the rules if nobody follows them? Why do I have to follow the rules when my competition doesn’t? The other guy doesn’t follow the rules and he doesn’t get caught; it’s not a level playing field! I’ll follow the rules as soon...

The federal government’s approach to scaffold erector safety won’t work. The scaffold industry’s present approach to safety won’t work either. Why? Simply stated, it’s the lack of information that will make the present approaches ineffective. It is true that the government has sufficient potential...