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Text on screen: Construction Top Tips
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Text on screen: Tip #02 Scaffolding
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When it comes to the erection of scaffolds, the dismantling of scaffolds, or even work from a scaffold,
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Text on screen: Brian Chamberlin, Construction industry education officer, WorkSafe Victoria
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if we're working at a height of more than 2 meters – so there's a possibility of a fall of more than 2 meters,
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it becomes High Risk Construction Work.
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So any of that type of work – so when we're erecting, requires a safe work method statement.
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When we're working from the scaffold, and we're more than 2 meters in height,
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safe work method statement for that works and then also too dismantling.
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So, to break those down I guess, from a safe work method statement point of view
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– we would need one for the erection and dismantle of the scaffold
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and then you would also need one from a different trade who was working from the scaffold
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– the scaffold would be part of the controls as outlined in the safe work method statement.
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And they would generally then, require that scaffold to be complete, handrails to be in place and so forth.
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Once the scaffold has been erected, generally if it's erected by a licensed scaffolder,
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then there would be a handover certificate with that scaffold to say that it's complete.
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Once then it becomes a builder's obligation to make sure that the scaffold is maintained –
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So part of that would be supervision requirements and also too, when he's inducting his workers,
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to make sure that they understand what needs to be done with the scaffold.
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There should be some sort of process put in place that if the scaffold is altered,
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the supervisor or the builder has been made known that it needs to be altered
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so that the appropriate controls can be put in place to make sure the scaffolds been put back together
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to a complete and satisfactory condition.
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