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Scaffold Safety

ENGR. TITO L. BRIZUELA, JR.

OSH Consultant
Accredited NCII Scaffolder
 Scaffold Safety for
Construction
Course Content

1. WHAT IS SCAFFOLD
2. TYPES OF SCAFFOLD
3. SCAFFOLDING
MATERIALS
4. SAFE ERECTION AND
DISMANTLING
SEQUENCE
 REASONS for SCAFFOLDS
ACCIDENTS
• Planking and support give way
• Constructed with inadequate materials.
• Inadequate for the intended purpose.
• Erected and altered by incompetent people.
• Placed on inadequate foundations.
• Overloaded.
• Employees slipping on surfaces
• Workers being struck by falling objects
• Hit by machinery or shock loaded.
• Subjected to excessive wind loads by being sheeted, whether flexible or solid.
• Not regularly inspected by competent people
Hazards in the Use of Scaffolding
– Fall of person from height
– Fall of materials and objects from height
– Collapse of scaffold
– Overloading of the scaffold
– Safe access not provided
– Electrocution

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 Scaffoldings
A scaffold is a valuable aid to support people and
hold materials that are to be used in
construction work.

Scaffolding is a safety aid to workers and allow

access to areas that are difficult to reach.

However, it remains one of the more serious

problem areas in construction due to a high
frequency and severity of incidents.
More than 50% of these injuries are due to falls.
Scaffold
refers to a temporary or movable platform supported on
the ground or suspended, used for access and/or
working at considerable heights above ground.
 Classification of Scaffolds

❖Supported Scaffolds
are platforms supported
by legs, outrigger beams,
brackets, poles, uprights,
posts, frames, or similar
rigid support.

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 Classification of Scaffolds

❖Suspended Scaffolds
contains one or more
platforms suspended
by ropes or other non-
rigid means from an
overhead structure.

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 Classification of Scaffolds

❖Other Scaffold refers to scaffolds in which the

supports for the platform are step ladders, tripods
or similar movable contrivances such as aerial
and scissor lifts, manlifts, personnel hoists.
Supported Scaffolds

Outrigger Scaffold
 Scaffolding Materials

Main Frame

Joint Pin

Ladder Cross Brace

 Scaffolding Materials

Cat-walk Panel Castor Wheels

Cantilever Support

Adjustable Base
Plate
BASE PLATE
 SCAFFOLDING TERMINOLOGY
• Bay. - Distance between standards.
• Brace - Tube at an angle to give stability.
• Guardrail - To stop persons falling.
• Ledger - Tube supporting transoms.
• Lift - Distance between ledgers.
• Soleboard - placed under baseplate to spread weight on soft ground.
• Standard - Upright tube.
• Ties - Means of fixing scaffold to structure.
• Toeboard - Upstand to prevent tools falling.
• Transom - Tubes to support platform.
• Working platform - set of boards to work on.
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SCAFFOLD
TERMINOLOGY

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0.95m - 1.15m

(38” – 455”)
Safety Requirements

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 Scope and application of
Department Order No. 128-13
Series of 2013

Department Order No. 128 -13:

Amending Rule 1414 on Scaffoldings of the
1989 Occupational Health and Safety
Standards, As Amended

(May 3, 2013)

Engr. Tito L. Brizuela, Jr.

OSH Consultant

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Specific Requirements

➢Timber/bamboo scaffolds - limited to a

height of 6 meters from the ground or base.
Over 6 meters height, steel scaffolds shall be
used.

➢Manufactured scaffolds more than 6 meters

in height - shall be designed by structural
engineer and approved by appropriate
authority
Specific Requirements

➢Site fabricated supported scaffolds exceeding 6

meters in height or a working load of 150 kg/sqm-
designed and inspected by the structural engineer
and approved by the appropriate authority.

➢Suspended scaffolds shall be designed and

inspected by a structural engineer if site fabricated.

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Specific Requirements:
➢Fall protection equipment (guardrails)
or Fall Arrest System - required when
working in a height of 2 meters or 10
feet above lower level
➢Guardrail Height – between 0.9 m. (38
inches) and 1.2 m. (45 inches)
➢All personnel involved in scaffolding
activities shall have appropriate
training and certification.

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 Specific Requirements:
Electrical Safety
• Clearance between scaffold equipment and
powerlines is crucial to worker safety

• Safe distances
must be kept
between
energized lines
and conductive
material

Access Safety Compliance Training, Inc.

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 Clearance from Power Lines
Un-insulated Lines Minimum Distance
Voltage
Less than 50kv 10 feet (3.1 m)
More than 50 kv 10 feet (3.1 m)
plus .4 inch (1cm) for each 1
kv over 50 kv

Insulated lines
50 – 299 volts 3 feet

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Specific Requirements:
Inspection and Tagging

Inspection and tagging shall be performed by qualified or

competent person;

Green Tag – Inspected and safe for use

Yellow Tag – Special requirements for safe use are
required

Red – “Danger – Unsafe for Use”

Specific Requirements
Training and Competency
Requirements
Competent Person
1. Construction Safety Training (40 hours)
2. Scaffold Erection Certificate - TESDA
3. Two years experience in scaffold erection

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 Specific Requirements
Competent Person Responsibilities
1. Select and direct employees who erect, dismantle, move
or alter scaffolds
2. Train employees, erectors, dismantlers in erection,
dismantling, repair, work hazards, capacity
3. Inspection for visible defects before each work shift and
integrity and authorize prompt actions
4. Determine integrity (structural sound)
 Specific Requirements
Qualified Person
1. With recognized degree, certificate
2. Extensive knowledge and training, experience
3. Successfully demonstrated ability to solve problems
related to the work
 Specific Requirements
Qualified Person Responsibilities
1. Design and load of scaffolds
2. Train employees on the scaffolds to recognize associated
hazard and understand procedures to control or
minimize the hazard
3. Design platforms (suspended type) to prevent instability
 Scaffold
Erector
Training and •One day
Competency
Requirements Workers Safety
Orientation
(OSHC/STO)
•Scaffold Erection
NC II - TESDA
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