Scaffolding Supervisor

Purpose

The aims of Scaffolding Supervisor program is to build the competency and prepare the students for employment as Scaffolding Supervisor or to promote supplemental training for personnel previously or currently employed in making scaffolding.

Below training requirements as per OSHA to relate to the hazards of work on scaffolds:

(a) The employer shall have each employee who performs work while on a scaffold trained by a person qualified in the subject matter to recognize the hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used and to understand the procedures to control or minimize those hazards. The training shall include the following areas, as applicable:

(1) The nature of any electrical hazards, fall hazards and falling object hazards in the work area;

(2) The correct procedures for dealing with electrical hazards and for erecting, maintaining, and disassembling the fall protection systems and falling object protection systems being used;

(3) The proper use of the scaffold, and the proper handling of materials on the scaffold;

(4) The maximum intended load and the load-carrying capacities of the scaffolds used; and

(b) The employer shall have each employee who is involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting a scaffold trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work in question. The training shall include the following topics, as applicable:

(1) The nature of scaffold hazards;

(2) The correct procedures for erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, inspecting, and maintaining the type of scaffold in question;

(3) The design criteria, maximum intended load-carrying capacity and intended use of the scaffold;

(c) When the employer has reason to believe that an employee lacks the skill or understanding needed for safe work involving the erection, use or dismantling of scaffolds, the employer shall retrain each such employee so that the requisite proficiency is regained. Retraining is required in at least the following situations:

(1) Where changes at the work site present a hazard about which an employee has not been previously trained; or

(2) Where changes in the types of scaffolds, fall protection, falling object protection, or other equipment present a hazard about which an employee has not been previously trained; or

(3) Where inadequacies in an affected employee’s work involving scaffolds indicate that the employee has not retained the requisite proficiency.

Target Audience

Any person who is at present a scaffolder and wishes to upgrade to supervisor. HSE officer taking additional responsibility as scaffolding supervisor. 

Course Content

Scaffolding Supervisor

• Regulations and approved Codes of Practice
• Scaffolding terminology
• Tubes, boards and fittings
• Ladders
• Gin wheels and ropes
• Scaffold ties
• Construction regulations and recommendations of basic scaffolds for following:

• independent tied scaffold
• static tower
• basic independent tied scaffold
• scaffolds with prefabricated beams
• practical inspection
• reports.
• Dismantling of scaffold