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What is a scaffold? A scaffold is “any temporary elevated platform (supported or suspended) and its supporting structure (including points of anchorage), used for supporting employees or materials or both.” (OSHA 29CFR 1926.250) This includes frame scaffolds for example, and also two planks...

Interesting thoughts and observations: • The US Congress passed the law that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, in 1970. Why it that some people still don’t know who or what OSHA is? • There were 5.5 million workplace injuries in 1998, according to the Department of...

Why do we fear an inspection, particularly a scaffold inspection? Mr. Webster, in his dictionary, describes an inspection as a “Careful investigation, a critical examination, to examine or review officially, to look at carefully.” How does this relate to scaffold, you ask? How does this relate to...

Remove the crossbrace; it’s in the way! If the scaffold doesn’t fall over, apparently the brace isn’t needed! Those people who put in all the braces don’t know how to build scaffolds! Before you get too excited, the foregoing statements are not true—please keep reading! Scaffolds are temporary...

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...