Lance-a-Lot
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Steel lashings top & bottom offshore.
Technical Guidance on The correct tying of ladders.
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TG20:13 has banned ladders in scaffolds.
ALL scaffolds will now have to have an external staircase.
It also states that monarflex must be fixed to ALL scaffolds regardless of location, height or usage.
Fittings will also have to be tethered from 2014, meaning all current fittings will have to be replaced.
ALL scaffolds will now have to have an external staircase.
It also states that monarflex must be fixed to ALL scaffolds regardless of location, height or usage.
Fittings will also have to be tethered from 2014, meaning all current fittings will have to be replaced.
kentjohn
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It actually said you must try to fit a stair way in if there is no way to get stair way in then you can use a ladder with ladder permit system.
kentjohn
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No not yet.
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I have had a tip off that it was supposed to be debris netting but apparently some of the NASC are going to the brazil world cup courtesy of you know who so they changed it to the plasticy stuff. If the shrink wrap merchants were more on the ball it could have been that and the modern scaff would have a gas gun and an impact wrench on the tool belt.
So when is the 65.7mm tube coming into TG?
The fitting manufacturer's asked if we wanted tethered or the new 65.7mm as they are not making tethered 65.7mm fittings until later in the year once they have set up all the new tooling.
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23mm instead of 21mm too.
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23mm instead of 21mm too.
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The gemme's f@cked
Even more so once timber scaffold boards become illegal in 2016.
Challenging times.
Exactly. Someone from the HSE told me they were going to have a crack down on 50mm tube and timber scaffold boards this summer.
What are your firm intending to replace their fittings with?
We are looking at 784 tension clamps and jubilee replacement wedges, but no final decision has been made.
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That may be ok for the small firms but when I was in Thailand looking for work the other week I saw representatives from the top 5 scaffolding contractors in a top Bangkok hotel meeting with some bamboo plantation owners. Apparently they are going to dump the NASC and go back to basics.
How will your firm compete with that?
We looked at both the 784 tension clamps and the jubilee replacement wedges but after many discussions with an external fitting advisor we settled on the tie gun wrap system with an almost unbelievable 23.7kn slip resistance.
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lashed top and bottom if possible if not twice where where it is possible.
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Three fixings here top, middle and bottom but only for ladders over 3 metres. 3 metre ladders must be secured top and bottom.
You can use wraps on the ladders with thin styles so the wraps go around the style and are not just "pinching" the two sides of it. Square lashing is still good and so are propper ladder clips for the correct ladder type. Blue tak and Tampon thread is not used a lot these days.
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On the same grounds as all scaffolding companies not called Lyndons will have to shut shop ? and all scaffolders who live in the North east that are called "Geordie" are to be banned from scaffolding for ever ?
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or welding