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Posted By shaun cooper
Investigating an incident where a bricklayer fell from a scaffold built around a timber framed dwelling which was having a brick skin built as the face of the building. The scaffold is built in 2 metre height lifts, so there is a requirement for a 'hop up' on the scaffold for the bricklayers to build the walls. The hop up creates a leading edge at the front of the scaffold which seems to be a standard way of building these types of dwellings. Can anyone point me to any publications that support this?
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Posted By Jonathan Sandler CMIOSH
what control measures did you have in place to prevent falls? (into the building as well)
Why are the lifts 2 meteres high, who designed the scaffold?
Why are hop-ups used on the lift? what type of hop ups are they?
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Posted By Jonathan Sandler CMIOSH
I do not beleive there are any publication on the subject.
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Posted By shaun cooper
Thanks Jonathan, I have sent you two photos which may help you to see what I am getting at.
The bay window means that there is a gap at the front of the scaffold which in reality is a leading edge which is at a diagonal to the main scaffold platform. The bricklayer in question jumped from the higher platform down to the hop up possibly to go through the window and down the buildings stairs instead of using the ladder. The planks sprung and he lost his footing which caused him to fall backward and down to the ground through the scaffold below.
The picture shows the bay of the scaffold in which he fell.
The scaffolder took me to three other sites of large housing developers and all the scaffolds where built the same as they were building timber frame houses also. Traditionally scaffolds are built in two metre high lifts.
Shaun
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Posted By Terry Price
Shaun,
please copy me the photos, I will try to help.
I am an ex bricklayer and have worked on Barratt's timber frame houses.
Regards
Terry
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Posted By shaun cooper
Sent photos by e-mail, by the way I served my time as a bricklayer with G&J Seddons, many moons ago.
Regards,
Shaun
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Posted By Martin Daly
The scaffolder is right. This is the right way to erect the scaffold as the roof has to be put on the house first. The use of two board brackets on the inside allows this. As they can be raised indenpendenly of the main scaffold to allow bricklayering to take place in 4 ft lifts. Once the roof has been finished.
The alternative would be to dismantle the scaffold and re erect it.
The HSA in Ireland publish guidelines for timber frame erection these can be downloaded from their website HSA.IE
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Posted By Antony McManus
Please e-mail the photos you have and I will ty and explain the process to you.tonymc22@hotmail.com
FYI I am a Scaffolder by trade
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