1969scaff
Well-known member
Right let's have a show off hands, who on this forum has used the scaff steps or similar this week?Got to remember it's law now!!Heard a cracker from one of our supervisors,he claims an advanced scaffolder from Manchester got caught by the HSE erecting a job with no harness on and no ladders on any of the lifts,he actually climbed down the scaffold to talk to the HSE.He was given a prohibition order stopping him from scaffolding,told he had to redo all his cards,starting at basic and was fined.Don't know when this was supposed to happen but has any one heard the same thing?Seems way over the top to me,part of our firms current scare tactics for us refusing to cart the scaff steps around.Could do with some clarification about whose responsibility it is to get them from job to job,also what would happen if you actually got caught not using the steps?