Training Course Specification
Duration:
3 days.
Attendees:
This course is aimed at those who are required to carry out safety inspections for basic access, working and special scaffolds.
Objectives:
To give the attendees such knowledge and skills to enable them to inspect basic access, working and special scaffolds and complete safety inspection reports.
Certification:
Successful delegates will receive a Basic Scaffold Inspector Certificate of Training and ID Card.
Content
- Introduction to Scaffolding & Scaffolding Terminology
- Statutory Requirements & Codes of Practice
- International Standards (British & European)
- Best Practice & Industry Standards
- Overview of Fall prevention in Scaffolding
- Tube, fittings & boards
- Safe access and egress
- Scaffolders training and working methods
- Bracing and tying scaffolds
- Mobile, static and loading towers
- Birdcage scaffolds
- Beams and bridging beams
- Public protection
- Various types of system scaffolding
- How to carry out a scaffolding inspection
- Scaffold Inspection Reports
- Scaffold Tagging Systems
- Practical Scaffold Inspection Exercises
- Knowledge Test and Assessment
Basic Scaffold Inspectors can progress to Advanced Scaffold Inspection after 6 months in possession of this qualification