Scaffolds are important in the construction sites. Though, they are the vehicle but can be another type of supported scaffold. They are one or more platforms suspended by ropes or other non-rigid overhead support. Example are a single point, two points, multi-point scaffold, catenary, Needle beam, multilevel. Supported scaffolds include ladder jack scaffold, pole scaffold, mobile scaffold, pump jack scaffold, Tube, and coupler scaffold. The load bearing members are poles, legs, frames, outriggers etc. It consists of one or more platforms supported by rigid, load-bearing members. There are three basic types of scaffold.We have the Supported scaffold, suspended scaffold, and other scaffolds. Toe board: It is an upstand at the edge of a platform that prevents materials from slipping off the platform.Ĭoupler: A component used to fix scaffold tubes together. Guardrails: It is a tube fixed to the structure to prevent the fall of a person from a platform or an access way. Work platform: The deck from which workers carry out building operations. It can be a timber, concrete or a metal spreader used to distribute the load from a standard or base plate to the ground. Sole boards: Mostly, another name is sole plate. They are placed with respect to the vertical or horizontal members of a scaffold.They increase the stability of a scaffold.īase plate: Small square metal plates.The standards rest on the base plate to ensure it does not sink into the ground. It can be used to support a working platform.īracing: They are the diagonal tube. Transoms: Most of all, they are short horizontal tubes.
It usually runs parallel to the face of the building.It acts as a support for the transoms. Ledgers: they are horizontal tubes.It ties the structure longitudinally. Standards: They are vertical tubes.They support the load to the ground. Though we have many types of scaffolds, the basic components that are available in them include Standards, ledgers, Transoms, Bracing, Baseplates, sole boards, guard rails, toe board, working platform. There is a possibility for workers to fall while working at height but scaffolds prevent such occurrence. It provides protection to people against fall hazards. When you are to work at a height or an elevating level beyond the reach of normal human height. Scaffolds provide access to the workplace. With scaffolds, such deaths are averted and the work is done safely. Because scaffold legs cannot support 700 feet of weight, SafwayAtlantic installed needle beams on the 41st, 29th and 16th floors to create a cantilevered scaffold platform with a 300 PSF. They make use of ladders for jobs that require a scaffold. Workers die most often when working at height. That figure alone makes scaffolding a good topic to talk about. In the construction industry, over 2 million workers work on scaffold frequently. Scaffold also means any temporary structure on to or from which persons perform work, or which enable persons to obtain access or to which enables materials to be taken to any place at which such work is performed. Scaffolds are in use when the work is not requiring the use of a ladder or other means.
A Scaffold is an elevated working platform used in supporting workers and materials or both.
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