Tag Archives: Scaffolding

Scaffolds can provide a safer and more efficient way to work in home building and remodeling. Every time a scaffold is erected, used, or dismantled it must be properly set up and certain protocols must be followed. Even though the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has implemented and updated a scaffold safety standard, scaffold-related accidents that result in injuries …

Saudi Aramco Scaffold Safety Handbook issued by Loss Prevention department. This section establishes the minimum safety-related technical requirements for temporarily elevated work areas, ladders, and scaffolds. This section applies to operations, maintenance, and construction activities of all Saudi Aramco proponent organizations and their contractors, at all Saudi Aramco onshore and offshore facilities and project sites. This section covers the design, …

What is a scaffold? Scaffolds are widely used on site to get access to heights and areas that would be otherwise hard to get to. Scaffolds should provide use with safe platform to work from.  Unsafe scaffolding has the potential to result in death or serious injury to those working from the scaffold or around areas where scaffolding is being …