Definitions
One who can identify existing and predictable hazards in the surroundings or working conditions which are unsanitary, hazardous, or dangerous to employees, and who has authorization to take prompt corrective measures to eliminate them.
What is a competent person?
In general each scaffold and scaffold component shall be capable of supporting, without failure, its own weight and at least this many times the maximum intended load applied or transmitted to it.
What is four (4)?
In general each scaffold platform and walkway shall be at least this many inches wide.
What is eighteen (18)?
True or False: Scaffold components manufactured by different manufacturers shall not be intermixed unless the components fit together without force and the scaffold's structural integrity is maintained by the user.
What is true?
Voith requires that these are prioritized over ladders when considering access/egress design.
What are stairs?
One who, by possession of a recognized degree, certificate, or professional standing, or by extensive knowledge, training, and experience, has successfully demonstrated his/her ability to solve or resolve problems related to the subject matter, the work, or the project.
What is a qualified person?
Each suspension rope, including connecting hardware, used on non-adjustable suspension scaffolds shall be capable of supporting, without failure, at least this many times the maximum intended load applied or transmitted to that rope.
What is six (6)?
In most cases the front edge of all platforms shall not be more than this many inches from the face of the work unless guardrail systems are erected along the front edge and/or personal fall arrest systems are used to protect an employee from falling.
What is fourteen (14)?
What is galvanic?
Scaffolds and scaffold components shall be inspected for visible defects by a competent person at this interval, and after any occurrence which could affect a scaffolds structural integrity.
What is before each work shift?
A strap with means both for securing it about the waist and for attaching it to a lanyard, lifeline, or deceleration device.
What is a body belt?
Scaffolds shall be designed by this kind of person.
What is a Qualified Person?
Each end of a platform, unless cleated or otherwise retrained by hooks or equivalent means shall extend over the centerline of its support at least this many inches.
What is six (6)?
OSHA requires supported scaffolding to be restrained from tipping by guying, tying, bracing or equivalent means at a ratio of 4:1. Voith requires this.
What is 3:1?
Scaffolds shall not be erected, used, dismantled, altered, or moved such that they or any conductive material is handled on them might come closer to exposed and energized power lines than this many feet to an uninsulated line voltage of less than 50kv
What is ten (10) feet?
The total load of all persons, equipment, tools, materials, transmitted loads, and other loads reasonably anticipated to be applied to a scaffold or scaffold component at any one time.
What is the Maximum Intended Load?
Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds shall be planked or decked in this way.
What is fully planked?
Each end of a platform 10 feet or less shall not extend over its support more than 12 inches or no more than this many inches if the platform is more than 10 feet unless it is designed and installed so that the cantilevered portion of the platform is able to support employees without tipping, or has guardrails which block employee access to the cantilevered end.
What is eighteen (18)?
Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames, and uprights shall bear on these.
What are base plates, mud sills, or other adequate firm foundation?
Scaffolds may only be erected, moved, dismantled, or altered only under the supervision and direction of this person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration.
What is competent?
What are Cleats?
Each platform unit shall be installed so that the space between adjacent units and the space between the platform and the uprights is no more than this wide, except where the employer can demonstrate that a wider space is necessary.
What is one (1) inch?
On scaffolds where platforms are overlapped to create a long platform, the overlap shall occur only over supports, and shall not be less than this many inches unless the platforms are nailed together or otherwise restrained to prevent movement.
What is twelve (12)?
No ramp or walkway shall be inclined more than a slope of this.
What is one (1) vertical to three (3) horizontal?
platforms may not deflect more than this fraction of the span when loaded
What is 1/60th?