When teaching employees who use scaffolds, it's crucial to understand the risks involved and the safety precautions that can be taken. Lean more check out the document.

1. Scaffolding Hazards and SafetyMeasures
Four Major Types of Scaffolding Hazards

2. Why Is Scaffolding SafetyImportant
Scaffolding safetyis crucialbecauseworking on scaffoldsinvolvesworking atheights,
which poses various risks for workers.

3. OSHA reports that
approximately 2.3 million
individuals, which is roughly 65
percent of construction workers,
work on scaffolds. Preventing
scaffold-related accidents
among these workers could
avert 4,500 injuries and 50
fatalities annually.
OSHA. (n.d.). Scaffolding. Website. [PDF]. https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/notes.pdf

4. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
reported that between 2003 and 2004, up to
4,500 individuals working on scaffolds were
injured, and more than 60 were killed each
year. Most of these accidents resulted from
falls from scaffolds, being struck by falling
objects, or scaffolding collapses caused by
inadequate planking.

5. Four Major Types of Scaffolding Hazards
Let’s find out the 4main hazards that those individuals working on scaffolds may
face.

6. Falling from Scaffolds
SafetyMeasures:
🞘 Wearing appropriate fallprotection gear
🞘 Installing guardrails, mid-rails,and top rails in both
suspendedandsupportedscaffolds on allopen sides
🞘 Not working on scaffolds coveredwith snow andice

7. Struck by
Falling Objects
SafetyMeasures:
🞘 Using PPE such ashardhats
🞘 Installing toe-boardsor screens so that
materials andobjects do not slideoff
thescaffolding platform
🞘 Erectingdebris nets,catch platforms,or
canopiesto stop or redirectthefalling
objects
🞘 Ensuring thathand toolsandother
objects arekept away from theedgeof
thescaffold

8. Electrocution
SafetyMeasures:
🞘 Maintaining distances between ascaffoldand insulated
powerlinesasrecommendedby OSHA Standards
🞘 Following OSHA recommendationswhen doing welding
and other types of electricalwork on different types of
scaffolding
🞘 Wearing PPE such asrubber gloves

9. Scaffoldin
g
Collapses
SafetyMeasures:
🞘 Following OSHA’s Scaffolding Safety
Standardrecommendations andguidelines
relatedtobuilding scaffolds,using
scaffolds,anddismantling scaffolds
🞘 Ensuring thescaffold is designedby a
qualifiedperson
🞘 Ensuring thescaffold is inspectedby a
competentperson daily beforework
begins

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