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Attended a seminar today by the NASC with regards to the new TG20 guidance, which was very informative, however to obtain an individual element of the suite of documents etc you have to first buy a complete suit of the documents at a cost of £995. This seems rather expensive as I would only need a copy of the operational document which is £250 ( similar to the old TG20:08 part 1) as the other parts of the suite are aimed at the scaffolding contractors.
I fully understand that they need to recover the expenditure to develop all the new documents etc, however it seems to be a bit of a scam to force companies to buy the whole suite when in reality most contractors would only need the operational guide.
Regards
PaulR
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By co-incidence I was "in their digital shop" yesterday trying to buy this.
I now understand why its not available, so thanks Paul.
So far as I'm aware the only difference between '08 and '13 is the references to other standards (tubes etc) that have themselves been updated (I already have these).
Can anyone confirm this please.
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Has anyone bought and read a copy of this.
My company only use basic scaffolds so I could not justify the cost.
Strictly speaking the 08 versions requires you to have a design if you have a bridge, even over a small conservatory on a basic general purpose scaffold.
There was talk of this being removed, does anyone know if this happened ?
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Easiest and best way round this is to cease the use of tube and fitting scaffolds and move to system scaffold alone as these are not subject to TG20 but the ISO standard. The NASC need to get real or an awful lot of members will start to find business unavailable. Let your scaffold contractor know why you are doing this and suggest he talks to the NASC for their explanation.
Bob
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We as a company have just bought the whole package and yes it does remove the need to go to the designer for a lot of different types of scaffold structures.
It also gives the user an "idiots guide" (for want of better words) as to how a scaffold should be built and a detailed picture is generated from the computer software of how it should look when completed.
This enable safety advisors that may not come from a scaffolding background to ensure structures are built correctly and to NASC guidelines.
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