Scaffold User's Course

Course Description: this course is intended for scaffold users and trades people working from scaffolds. Topics include fall hazard recognition, struck-by hazards, electrical hazards and electrocution, scaffold collapse and platform failure, and scaffold access. The role and importance of the ”competent person” will be explained and emphasized.

Course Content:

• General requirements
• Types of scaffolding
• Criteria for scaffolds
• Fall protection
• Electrical/Scaffold Hazards
• Falling Objects
• Compliance
• Personal Fall Arrest System (PFAS)