Scaffold Safety
Criteria for Scaffold Components
- Safety violations occur when employees use bricks, sand and other unapproved materials to weight the scaffold down.
- An element of balance may include counter-balance systems.
- Counterweights shall be made of non-flowable material. Sand, gravel and similar materials that can be easily dislocated shall not be used as counterweights.
- Counterweights shall be secured by mechanical means to the outrigger beams to prevent accidental displacement.
- Counterweights shall not be removed from an outrigger beam until the scaffold is disassembled.
- Suspension scaffold outrigger beams, when used, shall be made of structural metal or equivalent strength material, and shall be restrained to prevent movement
