Scaffolding Safety Related Information

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Greetings - I got this from a colleague. This to me is very important and it does have a lot of impact on scaffold safety. The tech brief they talk about below is pretty detailed.

As an

SH & E Professional with responsibilities for construction and demolition

operations, you are well aware of the impact scaffolding can have on your

sites. In the past several weeks, we have received almost two-hundred inquiries

on the current status of our ANSI/ASSE A10.8 Scaffolding Standard due to the

Federal government announcing that scaffolding is the number one most

frequently cited standard following inspections of worksites by federal OSHA.

The A10.8 Standard has for years been viewed as one of the

definitive documents used by SH & E Professionals when working with

scaffolding related hazards and exposures. The A10.8 Standard has been newly revised after ten years

and was approved as an American National Standard on August 31, 2011 with an

effective date of February 13, 2012.

The A10.8 standard establishes safety requirements for the

construction, operation, maintenance and use of scaffolds used in the

construction, alteration, demolition and maintenance of buildings and

structures. It does not cover permanently installed suspended scaffold systems

or aerial platforms.

We have put together an extensive tech brief addressing the

standard

http://www.asse.org/publications/standards/a10/A10.8TechBrief.pdf

You can order the standard and comparison document via the URL

below:

https://www.asse.org/cartpage.php?link=a10_08CPKG_2011