Scaffolding 29 CFR 1926.454

www.csem.com offers OSHA Scaffolding Competent Person safety training classes in the new scaffolding regulationwith an effective date of November 29, 1996. The OSHA regulation 29 CFR 1926.454 mandates that employers provide competent person safety training classes that offer certification.

Employees involved in the erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting scaffolding who perform work while on a scaffold (scaffold users); ((29CFR1926.454(a), (29CFR1926.454(b)).  Employees should receive additional training or be retrained as specified in (29CFR1926.451(c)). A trained “Competent Person” shall supervise all scaffolding construction or alteration (29 CFR 1926.451(f)(7)).  A competent person has the knowledge and expertise to shut-down, modify and change the working operation to conform to theOSHA 29 CFR 1926 Scaffolding Safety Regulations.  www.csem.com offers the scaffolding program to help employers comply with these requirements. The www.csem.com Competent Person Scaffold course participant receives a certificate of completion and serves to satisfy the need for OSHA training.

OUTLINE:

1. Introduction
2. Definition of a Scaffold
3. General description of scaffold duties
4. General description of fall hazards
5. Discussion of Fall protection techniques

A.) use of guardrails discussed- specifics given on the installation of guardrails
B.) use of fall protection equipment discussed –PFAS – personal fall arrest system
B.1) use of anchorage, body harness, lifeline discussed

III. Details of Falling Object Protection Discussed

1. Specifics of scaffold support – the wrong way & the right way to do scaffold support
2. Discussion of the essential elements of safe scaffold erection & use
3. Discussion of specific rules of thumb to use in safe scaffold erection

VII. Proper techniques of scaffold access discussed
VIII. Discussion of specific scaffold types
a.) suspension scaffolds
b.) moving scaffolds
c.) lean-to scaffolds

1. Specifics of scaffolding inspection discussed
2. Summary
3. Training requirements discussed