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While everybody says they are for safety, sometimes actions speak louder than words. As the saying goes, sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees. The intrigue surrounding the scaffold regulations, as written by Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is surprising. If...

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...

The letter I wrote last month concerning Mr. Schapira’s plank article created an uproar of untold proportions! My sole purpose for writing the letter was to clarify for safety officers, suppliers and users, that federal law, as it pertains to construction, does not require scaffold grade plank. My...

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...