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Safety & Access offer Free Scaffolder Rescue Training
Posted: 16 Oct 2013 11:07 AM PDT

Leading CISRS Scaffolding training and Work at Height training and consultancy provider Safety & Access Ltd are offering a Free pilot course in Humberside.
Safety & Access have teamed up with Honeywell Safety Products, experts in fall protection and rescue to present a day focusing on rescue planning and compliance to SG4:10, and the Working at Height Regulations 2005.
Many firms make the mistake of believing that a generic rescue plan is sufficient without understanding the consequences of poor planning.
The Free training course will focus on the effectiveness of correct planning for emergencies at height, the reality of it going wrong, and how to prevent mistakes being made.
Course start date : 23rd October 2013 (AM & PM Sessions)
The session will be ideal for those people responsible for:
 Writing rescue plans; or
 Approving rescue plans as part of a method statement.
Presentation contents will include the subjects below and those attending will receive a CPD certificate covering:
1) Rescue planning for Scaffolding Operations & SG4:10
2) Suspension Trauma update
3) Assessing effectiveness of the plan
4) Practical Demonstration
To book your place contact scockell@safetyaccess.co.uk for details
Terms & Conditions.
i. Numbers are strictly limited to 20 per session and 2 places per company will be on a first-come-first serve basis.
ii. Sessions will start at 9.30am and 1pm.
iii. Subsequent full-course bookings will be managed centrally through Safety & Access. Discount placements will be limited to two per company.
 
Only ever heard about it happening once and was told the other lads pulled him up, I didn't see it.
The hanging scaff told me it made his balls black and blue.
 
Not ever come across it myself.
I was told that in the tea hut on Shetland the lads were told that statistics showed scaffolders falling has risen by 60% since harnesses were introduced.

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Maybe one of our resident safety experts can shed some light
 
Thought honeywell produced the miller brand - sounds a nice little freebie as well as a selling platform for their products...dn shame its so far away or i'd av had some of that
 
Wish I had a quid for every time I had set off walking and been yanked back cos I forgot about being hooked on,guess they are good is some circumstances but in general they drive me nuts.
 
Havespannerwilltravel said:
Not ever come across it myself.
I was told that in the tea hut on Shetland the lads were told that statistics showed scaffolders falling has risen by 60% since harnesses were introduced.

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Maybe one of our resident safety experts can shed some light
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Not seen anyone publishing any statistics HSWT, I would imagine there's going to be a big push by the training centres on the subject , there's loads of different measures to adopt, Gotcha kits, retrievable blocks, mewps , board out lift, my advice is always plan for the worst , no one wants to be stood looking up at a scaff hanging in a harness wondering how they are going to get him down. Be interesting to see how many firms do actually consider rescue plans though
 
Double-Standards said:
That's what I meant with board out lift although there is still the problem of getting him to ground
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Any statistics on exactly how many falls scaffolders have had in the past 10 years where their fall arrest equipment has been activitated.
We totalled up 14952000 man hours on a project without one occurrence of suspension.
 
On the citb course they say have the gear to build a basic cantilever underneath where you're working to get to him.
 
I am not talking about methods of rescue.
Health and safety professionals say that the using of fall arrest has significantly reduced the numbers of scaffolders killed or injured in falls. Therefore they must have statistics of scaffolders killed and injured in falls who were not using fall arrest. They must also have statistics of the numbers of scaffolders who fell when using fall arrest and this were not killed or injured. They should have details of the number of suspensions and the rescue methods utilised.
 
True , they should but where would the statistics come from. Maybe they should have included it in the new RIDDOR regs
 
The reporting and recording of meaningful injury, near miss statistics for the UK construction Industry are and have always been a disgrace

It is only the fatal statistics that have any credibility as a death on site cannot be covered up by those responsible. The police and HSE will both conduct investigations, with statements taken under caution.

RIDDOR in fact do not include the self employed in their analysis's as they report so few incidents

from riddor web-site


"RIDDOR reporting levels are low for non-fatal injuries to the self-employed so non-fatal RIDDOR injury statistics normally exclude the self-employed"
 
The responsible person for reporting incidents for self employed is the person in charge of the premises, obviously this doesn't include domestic places of work.
 
HSWT i think the only place that youd possible get that data is from the authors of SG4 as they must have some to warrent the introduction of them in the first place.
When i did my harness inspec cert @ millers- the instructor told us that reguardless of the threat of suspension trauma,miller where not aware of any actual cases-it derived via the USA industrys as a "potential medical threat" & so due to the compensation culture was brought it as a risk managment issue - tbh it was only recently that it was decided that you could put a suspension victim into a normal recovery position rather than the long taught "W" method
 
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