Scaffold Safety Awareness Training

This course is designed for general scaffold users who may work on, near, or around scaffolds. With 65% of construction industry workers utilizing scaffolds, this awareness-level training focuses on scaffold safety principles, different types of scaffolds, associated hazards, scaffold roles, and key strategies for staying safe.

This course was designed to align with scaffold construction requirements OSHA 1926.454. After this training, learners will be able to:

• 16-minute video course
• Understand scaffold safety statistics, emphasizing why work on scaffolding can be dangerous
• Identify and differentiate common scaffold types and name the major components
• Recognize major scaffold hazards and apply methods to control or minimize the risk
• Distinguish the different roles and responsibilities of the scaffold competent person, qualified person, erectors and dismantlers, scaffold users, and scaffold designers
• Assess electrical hazards when working on scaffolds
• Evaluate falling object hazards and protect against accidents
• Demonstrate proper scaffold use
• Determine when scaffold hazards are present and know which role is most likely able to help reduce the risk
• Understand the scaffold maximum intended load and relate overuse to scaffold collapse

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