Guide to Scaffold Inspection and Maintenance

Full Description

This Guide provides information on scaffold inspection and maintenance including information on certification that a scaffold is safe to use.

It is part of a series of guidance material and should be read and used together with the General guide for scaffolds and scaffolding work which includes information on risk management as well
as advice on planning, erecting, altering, dismantling, and working with scaffolds and the following material:

• Guide to scaffolds and scaffolding
• Guide to suspended (swing stage) scaffolds, and
• Information Sheet: Tower and mobile scaffolds.

Further information for scaffolding work near overhead electric lines is also available in the Information Sheet: Scaffolding work near overhead electric lines.