When it comes to choosing a scaffolding company for your upcoming project, you should have various points on your checklist. However, there is one thing that stands head and shoulders above most other aspects in importance: safety. To safeguard your sub-contractors, your property and the public, you must choose scaffolding erectors with a proven health and safety record for scaffold supply and delivery. Whether you have a basic access scaffold outside your home in Twickenham and the nearby areas, or a huge structure with temporary stair access and temporary roofs, ongoing safety remains vital. This is why we not only install but make thorough scaffolding inspections to ensure everything is to standard.
If installed improperly by inexperienced, unqualified scaffolders, these structures become a genuine risk to health, and even life. Below, we have provided essential advice for safe scaffolding installation and use. As you will see, choosing reputable scaffolding erectors sets a tone for strict safety for the duration of your project.
At A & GB Scaffolding, we know how much you value peace of mind. Our local scaffolders are always happy to discuss our commitment to safe scaffolding practices. Call us on 01784 437 875 or 07951 590 094 to schedule an initial consultation in Twickenham or the neighbouring areas.
According to recent statistics, 72% of injuries suffered during scaffold use involved a structural malfunction, falling objects hitting workers or slipping. While accidents will always happen from time to time, the nature of these incidents suggests a safer approach could have prevented them.
The best way to reduce accidents is to follow basic steps that lead to safer scaffold towers, from the foot of temporary stair access up to the temporary roof, such as tin hat roofing.
Here, we will look at the following tips for decreasing risks while using scaffolding structures:
Qualified, experienced scaffolding erectors design, assemble and alter structures in full compliance with current Health and Safety standards. They will inspect the scaffold at your Twickenham site before first use and then hand it over to you. From this point, you are responsible for the structure’s ongoing safety.
As your local scaffolders, we never leave your safety to chance. After erecting your structure in Twickenham, we leave you with guidelines for safe scaffold use. These include maximum load capacities. But we also administer scaffolding inspections, thoroughly assessing the safety of all access solutions installed.
The structure and temporary tin hat roofing our scaffolding erectors assemble for you have a maximum load capacity. This ensures that it won’t collapse. If you exceed this load, you run the risk of a serious accident.
The personnel you hire to use your scaffold towers are the people most likely to suffer an accident on it. You can safeguard their health by training them on how to use it properly. This includes how to safely ascend the scaffold, be it via temporary stair access or ladders. You must also teach them how to use fall protection equipment and how to perform visual inspections.
Keep a log of your training and visual checks. This will cover you if an accident does occur.
As a scaffolding company, we sympathise with your need to meet deadlines and budgets. But you must never push for results at the expense of safety. In most cases, scaffolding safety is simple common sense. For example, don’t place boxes or free-standing ladders on the structure.
Likewise, if a liquid spill occurs on your temporary stair access or a working platform, make sure it’s cleaned up before work resumes. The same goes for clearing ice and snow or any other slip hazards.
For further information regarding our safe access solutions with scaffold supply and delivery, as well as the installation and safety inspection procedures for temporary roofs and scaffolding systems, please contact us today.
