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Does a tube and fit scaffolding still require a weekly inspection if no one is working on it?
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A scaffold used for construction should be inspected before it is used for the first time and then every 7 days, until it is removed. It should also be inspected each time it is exposed to conditions likely to cause deterioration e.g. following adverse weather conditions or following substantial alteration.
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Sorry to hijack, but....
Is there a standard checklist for this inspection? There's loads on the internet. What's the baseline content?
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Also, given that someone does the formal inspection, what bulletpoints would you give a layperson to help satisfy themselves that the formal inspection has been done properly? (without doing a full inspection themselves).
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Schedule 7 of work at height regs state what needs to be recorded in an inspection, the inspection should be by a third party (not the scaffolders who erected it) who should be competent to undertake this inspection
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Does anyone know of any case studies for anyone being prosecuted for not having the scaffold inspected that is no longer in use, but does remain erected? It was just that when i done a scaffold inspection course my tutor said that he knew of one. I do believe him that the scaffold still requires one but i was just looking for some evidence.
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pgahegan wrote:Schedule 7 of work at height regs state what needs to be recorded in an inspection, But that schedule is a specification for the report, not a specification for the inspection. It doesn't list what should be checked - it's not a checklist for what the inspection should check. Also, I don't think the WaH regs require a scaffold to be inspected every 7 days - they explicitly require a platform to have been inspected within the seven days preceding its use for construction work. The regs look to me to be carefully drafted so that an out-of-use scaffold (or one not being used as a working platform) does NOT require inspection: "every employer shall ensure that a working platform used for construction work; and from which a person could fall 2 metres or more, is not used in any position unless it has been inspected in that position or, in the case of a mobile working platform, inspected on the site, within the previous 7 days." Have I missed a regulation somewhere else?
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I fully understand that when a scaffold is in use that it needs to be inspected, but what if for an example only.. if the scaffold was in the center of London and it was inspected 5 days before the site was shut down for the Christmas period. The Christmas period lasts for two weeks, would it need to be inspected over the Christmas period?
Regulation reads says this;
(3) Every employer shall ensure that work equipment exposed to conditions causing deterioration which is liable to result in dangerous situations is inspected—
(a)at suitable intervals; and.
(b)each time that exceptional circumstances which are liable to jeopardise the safety of the work equipment have occurred,.
to ensure that health and safety conditions are maintained and that any deterioration can be detected and remedied in good time.
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Read on Regulation 12(4) of WAH Regs. Covers scaffolds used for construction work as text in achrn posting.
So your scaffold does not need to be inspected during 2 week shutdown but does need to be inspected before it's used again when the site restarts.
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peter that is for a working platform on a scaffold. This scaffold would not be in use or other circumstances would be waiting to be dismantled.
But what if it was to be effected by the wind and the scaffold was to collapse over the Christmas period or for any period when it is not in use. Would we be liable for not having undertaken any inspections on it whilst it remains in place?
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Anyone have any case law on members of the public being injured by using a scaffold?
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There are examples of prosecutions where members of the public have been injured when a scaffold was in use.
We'll have to search for a case when scaffold was not in use but consider this:
For scaffold NOT in use surely there is still the possibility of damage e.g. from vehicle collision, and if this damage goes unreported then the structure may pose a risk to the public.
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