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staggsy  
#1 Posted : 17 April 2014 11:16:33(UTC)
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staggsy
Good Morning fellow safety people

Do any of you fine people have any experience of the above scaffold material?

A CONTRACTOR has just brought a load of Coronet Cuplock system scaffold onto our oil and gas project in kKazakhstan- Im not sure about this material at all

We currently have issues regarding the ladders for this scaffold, they are of a steel construction with no anti skid design or material on the rungs. They just look wrong.

We have tried to determine whether or not these comply with the standard EN131-1.

The documentation supplied with these ladders is written in Chinese and we can only find limited information available on the internet

Thanks

AS
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Roundtuit  
#2 Posted : 17 April 2014 11:33:27(UTC)
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Roundtuit
Being an avid reader of RAPEX (European consumer safety notifications) the country listed seems to draw a lot of reported deficiencies for failing to comply with relevant European regulations.

There is also an on-going issue that manufacturers of this origin apply a logo that to the untrained eye is very similar to what Europeans would consider to be a CE mark.

Had an issue on site with hard hats a contractor purporting to be CE marked - closer examination revealed a European suppliers information had been copied verbatim.

If they have been correctly assessed to European Standards by an Approved Body there should be a report available in a more digestible language.
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Roundtuit  
#3 Posted : 17 April 2014 11:33:27(UTC)
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Roundtuit
Being an avid reader of RAPEX (European consumer safety notifications) the country listed seems to draw a lot of reported deficiencies for failing to comply with relevant European regulations.

There is also an on-going issue that manufacturers of this origin apply a logo that to the untrained eye is very similar to what Europeans would consider to be a CE mark.

Had an issue on site with hard hats a contractor purporting to be CE marked - closer examination revealed a European suppliers information had been copied verbatim.

If they have been correctly assessed to European Standards by an Approved Body there should be a report available in a more digestible language.
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