SCAFFOLD

ERECTORS
COALITION

Contents
What is the Scaffold Erectors Coalition ..................................................................................................................... 2
Why a Coalition ......................................................................................................................................................... 2
Why Our Own Trade .................................................................................................................................................. 3
Member Services ....................................................................................................................................................... 4
Contact ...................................................................................................................................................................... 4

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What is the Scaffold Erectors Coalition

The Scaffold Erectors Coalition (SEC) is a grassroots movement dedicated to all scaffold
professionals including but not limited to: scaffold erectors, sales professionals, management,
employees, and the companies themselves. We are vested in increasing the quality of life for
all scaffold professionals across the board. As an organization we intend to have our voices
heard in all matters related to scaffolding including but not limited to:

Having the Department of Labor (DOL) recognize the erection, dismantle, and
modification of scaffolding as a trade rather than consider it a support craft for other
trades as it is considered in the current format.

Lobbying the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) as well as the
American National Standard Institute (ANSI) to increase the standards for scaffolding.

We will also offer services to our members including but not limited to discounted safety
equipment, discounted tools, upgraded training programs, site, office, and warehouse safety
audits, quarterly newsletters, webinars, and SEC merchandise.

Why a Coalition
The SEC has chosen the format of being consider a coalition due to the definition of a coalition
in todays age. A coalition is a group of people, groups, or countries who have joined together
for a common purpose or the action or process of joining together with another or others for a
common purpose. The mission of the SEC is to increase the quality of life for all scaffold
professionals across the board

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Why Our Own Trade

Having scaffold recognized as its own trade will provide many benefits for the scaffold erector,
company, worker, and user alike. We will campaign OSHA to review and amend their
standards concerning the erection, dismantle, and modification of scaffolding providing a way
to mandate training and have certified scaffold erectors instead of just qualified and
competent persons, paving the way to get tighter regulations enacted on scaffolding. We will
also campaign to mandate upgraded training for the scaffold user as well.
Although scaffolding has fallen under the carpentry blanket for many years and was birthed as
a discipline of carpentry originating from wood scaffold in the days of old, we have evolved into
using predominantly steel scaffolding for commercial and industrial applications. With this
evolution little has been done to update the existing standards.
Having scaffold recognized as its own trade will also benefit the workers through training that
would be proprietary to the trade. The training that is available would be revised and updated
producing new criteria and modules. The trade would be able to then mandate and provide
credentials for certified scaffold erectors rather than have just qualified erectors as in the
present time.
Having scaffold recognized as its own trade coupled with the new training standards would put
a stop to other trade workers taking a class (or in some instances not) and beginning to build
scaffold as the USW workers did on the Capitol Building Dome Project in Washington D.C.
This is not the only instance where this happens. Block masons and bricklayers erect
scaffolding that is unsafe and pile hundreds of pounds of mud and brick on the boards at a
time then place men on the boards to work. Insulation companies have crews erect their own

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scaffold, insulate, and dismantle the scaffold in many places. These are not professional
scaffold erectors but yet tradesman in their respected trade taking a 40 hour scaffold class,
receiving a card, and then being sent to erect scaffold that they have limited experience
erecting.

Member Services
The SEC member services that we intend to provide will benefit the member at the individual
and the corporate level. Currently we will be the voice for all scaffold professionals
campaigning to have scaffold recognized as a trade. We have begun working on and will be
providing an array of services to our members including but not limited to:

SEC SERVICES

INDIVIDUAL

CORPORATE

Interactive webpage
Reference Help Desk
Discounted Tools*
Discounted Safety Products*
Scaffold Industry RSS Feed
Webinars/Seminars/Podcast
Newsletters
Merchandise
Office and Site Safety Audits
Consultations

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* All tools and safety products offered will be American made 100% in the U.S.A.

Contact
NAME

NUMBER

EMAIL

Tom Hallman

(304) 634-4573

tomterriffic@scaffolddawgs.com

Philip Nettles

(251) 455-5321

pkn91381@gmail.com

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