🏗️ Scaffold Training

📌 Overview

Scaffold Training is a specialist safety programme designed to equip workers and supervisors with the skills to safely erect, use, inspect, and dismantle scaffolding systems.

It helps reduce the risk of falls, collapses, and other site incidents by ensuring participants are competent in scaffold-related operations.

This training is essential in construction, maintenance, industrial, and infrastructure projects where temporary work platforms are frequently used.

🎯 Objectives of Scaffold Training

  • Ensure safe erection, use, and dismantling of scaffolds
  • Support compliance with workplace safety requirements
  • Increase awareness of fall protection, load limits, and hazard prevention
  • Reduce the likelihood of accidents and workplace liabilities
  • Build competency in recognising hazards and unsafe conditions

📝 Requirements for Participation

Eligibility Criteria
✔️ Minimum age: typically 18 years or older
✔️ Medically fit to work at height
✔️ Basic reading and comprehension skills

Training Duration
⏳ 1 to 5 days depending on course type (basic, advanced, or supervisory)
📚 Includes both classroom and hands-on modules

Assessment
✔️ Written knowledge checks
✔️ Practical performance evaluations

👥 Who Should Attend?

  • Scaffolders are responsible for erecting and dismantling scaffolds
  • Construction and maintenance workers operating at height
  • Supervisors, engineers, and safety officers are overseeing scaffold use
  • Inspectors and site managers assessing scaffold safety
  • Personnel in oil & gas, power generation, infrastructure, and heavy industry

📖 Course Content

🏫 Theoretical (Classroom) Training

  • Types of scaffolds (tube & coupler, frame, system)
  • Safety regulations and best practices
  • Scaffold design principles and load calculations
  • Safe erection and dismantling procedures
  • Fall protection systems & PPE usage
  • Scaffold tagging systems for access control
  • Inspection requirements and hazard identification
  • Emergency procedures and rescue planning

🛠️ Practical Training

  • Erecting and dismantling scaffold structures
  • Safe climbing, access, and working techniques
  • Fall arrest system demonstration
  • Scaffold inspection practice
  • Hazard identification exercises
  • Hands-on use of scaffold tools and components

🏢 Training Services Offered

  • Basic Scaffold Training (workers)
  • Advanced Scaffold Erection & Inspection
  • Supervisor-Level Training
  • Refresher & renewal programmes
  • On-site or training-centre delivery options

🌟 Benefits of Scaffold Training

✅ Reduces scaffold-related accidents and injuries
✅ Improves on-site safety culture
✅ Enhances compliance during inspections and audits
✅ Boosts operational efficiency and workforce competence
✅ Recognised and valued by employers across multiple industries