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December 18, 2014

Where Is not the best place to put an unsafe scaffold?


So you put your scaffolding up to do some work on the roof of a building in town. You either can’t be bothered to do it right or you just don’t know how to put up a scaffold safely. As a result one of your scaffolders is working on a platform four metres above ground, which is two planks wide and has no hand or guard rails and toe boards. Well, what are they for anyway?

Still, you will get away with it won’t you? No-one will see.

WRONG

Lesson 1 – Don’t put up dodgy scaffolding at all!

Lesson 2 – Don’t put it up next door to the local HSE office!

The so called professional company that put up this apology for a scaffold were fined a total of £10,600 and ordered to pay £2,500 in costs after pleading guilty to breaching Regulation 4(1) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and Regulation 5 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. That does not include their own defence costs either.

However, all the talk about lessons and learning from them is something the company are not known for, as they had obviously ignored the written warnings they had received for other issues in 2012 and 2013. Obviously not third time lucky for them.

Source: HSE

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