scaff step

SWIFTY said:
Have your views changed on these now that they've been about a while?
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To be honest mate i don't really mind them much now we are not on price!

Once your used to it and IF you have a good team its quite easy, to be honest my mate feels safer when he gets on to the platform now as he doesnt have to remove his sloth grip from the standard to put the hand rail on.:nuts::laugh:

I dint know what the ideal way to comply without using an advanced guard rail or the step would be, it still annoying though that a couple of years ago i could just jump up drag the boards up and run the hand rail in as i was going along running the lift in!
 
Bri said:
To be honest mate i don't really mind them much now we are not on price!

Once your used to it and IF you have a good team its quite easy, to be honest my mate feels safer when he gets on to the platform now as he doesnt have to remove his sloth grip from the standard to put the hand rail on.:nuts::laugh:

How would you manage 2 handed on price?


I dint know what the ideal way to comply without using an advanced guard rail or the step would be, it still annoying though that a couple of years ago i could just jump up drag the boards up and run the hand rail in as i was going along running the lift in!
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Why not use the sliding rail method?
 
The scaffs are finally getting used to it.
 
They don't seem to get much use down here any more.
 
As long as they are using something.
 
Nothing wrong with using tube as long as you get it in place before you are on the lift, as Swifty says just slide it.

What do they use on your firm marra?
 
aom said:
Nothing wrong with using tube as long as you get it in place before you are on the lift, as Swifty says just slide it.

What do they use on your firm marra?
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1 or 2 boards unless were on a council job and its ''sort of done'' proppley 4 board single hand rail but that goes on after lift scaff steps are there but hed probbly sack ya for even thing about taking them out the yard
 
aom said:
Mm, take care.
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:laugh: know what ya mean lado i was working wid snapped a board and when threw it lucly he helf on to ledger and it was i say only 13ft up, like av said b4 about the gafer we dance to his tune. lads say its like still bene in the 80;s with them :mad:
 
I am maybe stuck in a bubble and we are far from perfect but wouldn't like to be responsible for anyone working like that now. My biggest problem at the moment is getting the boys to include the stop ends using the step. They can't understand what I am on about and I can't understand why the feck they keep forgetting them.
 
My opinion of them hasn't changed, they are not in line with SG4:10 as the user is not behind collective fall protection and must clip on. You may as well make a boarded platform to give yourself a larger work area when installing your guardrail.
 
Why are they not in line Flinty, and why are they not behind a guard rail?

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Don't take this the wrong way marra but Flinty, have a wee look at how marra describes how they build their jobs before castigating the step.

It's a simple reasonably cheap affordable method for all and if that was the hardest operation we had to do in our working day we would all be happy.

Anyone who still asks men to throw a couple of boards over a system bay with no rail or inter really deserves what's coming to them.

And yes, I know you can slide it but the step is our preferred method.
 
I think Marmite should buy out Combisafe.

I like Marmite though:confused:
 
I fekin hate the stuff.;)

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SWIFTY said:
I think Marmite should buy out Combisafe.

I like Marmite though:confused:
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Seriously though, with all the problems we face on our daily struggles why are you so against the step?

What do you reckon any alternative would be?

I could be very wrong as I often am but I reckon we really might have something to moan about if they ever do ban it.
 
I still say SG4:05 was adequate (But ignored by most) as scaffolders are meant to be specialists and trained to work at height.
Plenty of other trades and occupations don't need a guardrail in front of them to do their job.
Failing that the sliding rail works fine and is in my RAMS exactly as our scaffs want it.
 
I think they were adequate too, in fact at the time I thought they were a bit draconian as all I really wanted to do is get a standard behind my back on bare steel and shout for wood, but these days are over. I'm not sure about other trades working at height without a guard rail unless you mean the dopes but they will have their own bible to contend with and the work at height regs should apply to all it's just that all don't think they do.

It's good you have found a solution that works for you and the scaffs, I think that was the purpose of the document.
 
I have only ever been asked once about it. It was a large outside firm and the guy knew it wasn't strictly by the book. I sat with him for 10 minutes and explained my thoughts and our process's and he left more than happy.

If enforcement is the problem why not fight that instead.
 
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