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Text on screen: Construction Top Tips
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Text on screen: Tip #03 Scaffolding
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If a scaffold's erected and it's going to be up for a long period of time, then that scaffold should be inspected by a competent person
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Text on screen: Brian Chamberlin, Construction industry education officer, WorkSafe Victoria
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which may mean that a builder or a duty holder may require a scaffolder to come back and check that scaffold
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and I think probably you would be looking at a timing of around 30 days.
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Okay, so once that scaffold’s been up for that 30 days, getting somebody back
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just to check – make sure all the components are still in place, make sure the base plates, the sole plates,
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anything like that where the scaffold is – like the pressure points, if you like, are all still okay.
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No movement in the scaffold
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no ties, if there’s ties on the scaffold tying it back to the structure – have been removed or replaced.
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And checking through all the componentry, just to make sure that the scaffold is still safe and complete.
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When we’re erecting scaffolding, altering scaffolding, dismantling scaffolding – the requirement is
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anything where the working deck is over 4 meters, we require a basic scaffolding ticket at least to erect, dismantle scaffold.
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So there is definitely training – even for a modular scaffolder, mobile scaffolder or anything like that,
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we would still expect somebody to be trained in how to, I suppose, put that scaffold together
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in away that it’s going to be safe and it is complete.
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So training is definitely required, but from a high risk work licence,
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a basic scaffold would be the minimum requirement for something over 4 meters.
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