Category: Scaffolding Safety

At Mr Scaffold, safety is our number one priority. Mr Scaffold is work cover certified and our team are experts at erecting and dismantling scaffolding. Read about our scaffolding safety tips in our articles below.

Scaffold and heights safety

Falls Prevention deserves your attention – Scaffold and heights safety blitz from NSW Government

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Extract from SafeWork NSW Website: “GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES SAFETY BLITZ TO DRIVE DOWN CONSTRUCTION DEATHS Ministerial Media Release | 22/11/2017 Minister for Better Regulation Matt Kean today launched a year-long blitz to crack down on dodgy construction businesses which put their workers at risk. Mr Kean said the number of falls from heights reported to SafeWork
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The safe way to scaffold over a pool

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Australian property sizes are shrinking.  At a time when headlines contain the details of the sale of the largest station in the world, our cities are becoming more compacted each time a building is redesigned or redeveloped. Over the past five years rampant population growth and skyrocketing land prices have seen a significant reduction in
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Scaffolding Safely – Plan your work and think ahead

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Mr Scaffold is a firm believer in making safety a priority at every step. According to Safe Work Australia, Scaffolding and Scaffold work is hazardous, and you must have the right skills and capabilities to work with them safely. This is true, and to help a novice get onto a scaffold to do some painting
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What to look for when buying a scaffold – Wheels

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Although often overlooked as a critical part of any mobile scaffold, Wheels are an integral part of the structure, and need to be looked after in the same way.  There are quite a variety of scaffold wheels available on the Australian market, which is right for your scaffold? Wheel or Caster (Castor) Caster is a
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What to look for when buying a scaffold – Ladders

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Ladders Mobile scaffolding is wonderful for providing a safe working platform for any kind of purpose.  The mode of ascent continues to be by means of a ladder.  There are however quite a few points to consider in your purchase of a scaffold when you are looking at the type and fittings of the scaffolding
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What to look for when buying a scaffold – Joins

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Rivets v Welds I plan to run a couple of posts to give everyone some ideas on how to choose a scaffold for their own use, and some of the differences that you may see when looking at buying a scaffold. This week, we will concentrate on the joins between the fittings (or claws) and
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Outriggers on Aluminium Mobile Scaffolds – What do they do and when do I use them

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I was watching one of our displays at the Mr Scaffold Head Office in Wetherill Park during a storm last month.  We had a single width easyscaf (light duty) tower with a platform at 5.4 metres.  That meant the top rail was at 6.3 metres, and the scaffold is only 0.85 metres wide.  With the
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Having trouble with the curve? Not with Mr Scaffold at your site

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Mr Scaffold is capable of providing full service scaffolding hire and labour solutions.  We have some large jobs in the pipeline, most of which we cannot share on these pages, so until we have something more recent to show you, I thought I would share an interesting job from a short while ago. Our client
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Scaffolding Safety is a Business Priority for Mr Scaffold

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At Mr Scaffold, safety is our number one priority. Check back for updates. Our Vision ‘Providing market leading scaffolding solutions through superior customer service and product innovation.’ We know that having a vision statement is common for companies, we here at Mr Scaffold have used ours to describe the attitude that we have towards providing
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Do I require a ticket / certification to erect Aluminium Mobile Scaffolding?

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When is a licence required? If you wish to perform scaffolding work, where a person or object may fall more than four metres from the scaffold, you must hold a high risk work licence for scaffolding. When is a licence not required? A licence is not required if the height of the completed scaffold is
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