If you ever had a difficult situation on convincing your management on Safe Scaffolding Requirements, this course is for you. This course will give you enough resources and technical know-how on Scaffolding Safety supported by OSHA guidelines. You also get to know about the practical approach of Erecting, Dismantling, Accessing working on a Scaffolding platform safely.

This course has been designed to introduce current and future safety professionals to basic Scaffolding Safety concepts. This course also has some advanced techniques which will help the learner to take a step further. This course focuses on a practical approach and is primarily intended for safety professionals, foremen, and project managers.

The course sections are as follows:

1. Section 1: Basic Concept

a) Lecture 1 – Introduction to OSHA Scaffolding Guidelines

b) Lecture 2 - Types of Scaffolds

c) Lecture 3 - Scaffolding Terminology and Design criteria as per OSHA

2. Section 2: Protecting Workers from Fall

a) Lecture 1 - General Requirements as defined by OSHA

b) Lecture 2 – Methods to Protect from Falling

3. Section 3 - Scaffolding Platform Construction as defined by OSHA

a) Lecture 1 - Capacity and Load Rating

b) Lecture 2 – Platform Construction Requirements

c) Lecture 3 – Scaffold Access

d) Lecture 4 – Arial Lifts

4. Section 4 - Training and Competence

5. Section 5 – Inspection & Cleaning

6. Section 6 – Summary

7. Quiz

At the end of the course, resource materials will be given on Scaffolding standards, Inspection checklists and other necessary documents that will help you to implement at your own organisation and make you a hero to your management.

This course will help you to take your career a step forward.