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May 2008 - Safety Idiot Of The Month

Courtesy of Safey Soapbox
Published by Worksafe Victoria to promote safer work practices in construction, utilities, minings and quarring. It may be freely copied for such purposes.

May 2008 - Safety Idiot Of The Month

Courtesy of Safey Soapbox

This Bodgey Scaffold shows workers installing a new fascia panel around the outside of the Hotel entrance.

As you can see, there are many faults to list, but some key things are:

  • Working platform not fully decked.
  • Ladder used for working platform, instead of scaffold plank
  • Climbing up side of scaffold (no access ladder)
  • Standing on scaffold frame to work, rather than working platform
  • No handrail, midrail or toeboard
  • No barricading around the scaffold (this was next to the main entrance to the Hotel)
  • Mixture of scaffold parts used from different systems
  • Person working on ground, directly under the overhead work
  • Power tool hanging by the cord.
Published by Worksafe Victoria to promote safer work practices in construction, utilities, minings and quarring. It may be freely copied for such purposes.


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