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Competent Person Scaffold Inspection Checklist

QUESTION COMMENT
1. Are scaffolds and scaffold components inspected
before each work shift by a competent person?

2. Have employees who erect, disassemble, move,

operate, repair, maintain, or inspect the scaffold
been trained by a competent person to recognize
the hazards associated with this type of scaffold
and the performance of their duties related to this
scaffold?

3. Have employees who use the scaffold been trained

by a qualified person to recognise the hazards
associated with this scaffold and know the
performance of their duties relating to it?

4. Is the maximum load capacity of this scaffold

known and communicated to all employees?

5. Is the load on the scaffold (including point loading)

within the maximum load capacity of this particular
scaffold?

6. Is the scaffold plumb, square, and level?

7. Is the scaffold on base plates and are mudsills

level, sound, and rigid?

8. Is there safe access to all scaffold platforms?

9. Are all working platforms fully planked?

10. Do planks extend at least 70 mm and no more than

200mm over the supports?

11. Are the planks in good condition and free of visible

defects?

12. Does the scaffold have all required guardrails and

toeboards?

13. Are 4:1 (height to width) scaffolds secured to a

building or structure as required?

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Competent Person Scaffold Inspection Checklist

QUESTION EXPLANATION COMMENT
1. Have you If you quote the job without considering the
allowed for types of scaffolds and the quantities of
your scaffolding equipment you need to do the
scaffolding work safely and legally, you could lose big
costs in your money when you provide the necessary
contract price? scaffolding.
2. Are your Make sure anyone constructing, or directly
scaffolders supervising the workers that construct any
properly scaffold from which a person or materials
competent? could fall, ensures the scaffold erectors are
competent.
3. Is the scaffold Bricklayers, stonemasons, concreters and
strong enough demolition workers need heavy duty
for the loads? scaffolds that can safely support up to 675
kg per platform per bay. Carpenters and
general trades may need at least medium
duty scaffolds which can safely support up
to 450 kg per platform per bay. Light duty
scaffolds are limited to 225 kg per platform
per bay. In estimating loads on scaffold
platforms, a person is assumed to weigh 80
kg. Check the supplier's information for the
type of scaffolding systems you’re using.
4. Is the scaffold Scaffolds can collapse if they are built on
stable? soft ground without timber soleplates to
properly distribute the load, if they are too
close to trenches or excavations, if they
aren’t properly braced and tied to the
supporting structure, or if they’re badly out
of level.
5. Does the Planks should be genuine scaffold planks in
scaffold good condition, of uniform thickness (to
protect the prevent trip hazards) and secured against
workers and uplift. Platforms should be fully decked
other people? across their full width and free of gaps. All
platforms higher than 2 metres should have
guardrails, midrails and toe boards (or brick
guards) fixed to each open side and end.
Where debris from the work can cause
danger, it may be necessary to sheet the
scaffold in shadecloth. Never use hessian
because it can very easily catch fire.
6. Is there safe Properly constructed temporary stairways or
access to ladder access is needed to all working
every scaffold platforms. Climbing up and down the
platform? scaffold framework is very dangerous.
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Ladders should be securely fixed to prevent

movement, pitched at a gradient not less
than 1 in 4, or more than 1 in 6, and they
should extend at least 900 mm above the
platform so they can be safely climbed.
7. Are scaffolds a No part of a metal scaffold should be closer
safe distance than 4 metres from any live power lines.
from
powerlines?
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QUESTION EXPLANATION COMMENT

8. Are your While it’s under construction, the scaffold
scaffolders should be isolated from other workers and
working safely? the general public. Scaffolders’ tools should
be stowed in holders on their scaffold belts.
Scaffolders should work from a full deck of
planks whenever possible. They should fix a
guard-rail for their own protection as they
go, leaving it in place until that part of the
scaffold is dismantled. Scaffolders working
underneath should wear safety helmets. On
large jobs, they should have the scaffolding
equipment crane lifted, or they should use a
winch or gin wheel to reduce manual
handling risks.
9. Are your Workers must use the scaffold safely. They
scaffold users must not overload the platforms or store
working safely? material in a dangerous way where it could
be knocked off the scaffold. Clear access
should be maintained along the full length of
platforms. They should not climb on
guardrails to get extra height. They should
not make the scaffold unsafe by removing
planks, ties or guardrails.
10. Are your You must not allow work to start from a
scaffolds being scaffold until the construction of the
regularly scaffold is complete. Get the scaffolder in
inspected? charge of the work to fill in a handover
certificate and keep it on site until the
scaffold has been dismantled. Make sure a
certificated scaffolder or other competent
person inspects all alterations or additions
to the scaffold. Have a thorough inspection
done at least every month and keep a copy
of the inspection record on site. Get any
necessary repairs to the scaffold done
before it is put back into use.
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APPOINTED
COMPETENT
PERSON: