If you aren’t confident in your knowledge of one of the following subjects, go back to the relevant lesson in the course to give it a review.

• A ‘competent person’ must have had specific training in and be knowledgeable about the structural integrity of scaffolds and the degree of maintenance needed to maintain them.
• There are specific regulations relating to Construction, Maritime, and General Industry along with General Safety!
• OSHA requires employers to provide training by a competent person to each employee who is involved in erecting and/or disassembling a scaffold.
• CFR1926 is related specifically to Construction.
• Do not use makeshift methods to increase the working height of the scaffold platform, such as with ladders, buckets, or blocks.
•  A designated Competent person is responsible to inspect the scaffolding for safety.
• Planks must be overlapped a minimum of 12 inches.
• Every person working 6 feet or more above ground must be protected by a fall arrest system or guardrails.
• Less than 1” is permitted between adjacent planks or between the platform and the uprights.
• Pole scaffolds are a type of supported scaffold in which every structural component, from uprights to braces to platforms, is made of wood. OSHA has standards for two kinds: single-pole, which are supported on their interior side by a structure or wall, and double-pole, which are supported by double uprights independent of any structure.
• A vertical barrier, consisting of, but not limited to, top rails, mid rails, and posts, erected to prevent employees from falling off a scaffold platform or walkway to lower levels is called a guardrail.
• Total Maximum load is 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.
• A Red Tag is the most visible sign that a scaffold has NOT been properly erected?
• To avoid falls and other hazardous conditions, you should only work from scaffolds that are properly constructed and supported. If the scaffold does not have a stable foundation, then the scaffold may move or shift causing either the scaffold or you to
• Catenary, Single and Multipoint Adjustable, Needle Beams are examples of Suspended Scaffolds:
• A competent person must determine the feasibility and safety of providing fall protection for employees erecting or dismantling supported scaffolds.
• Body belts are not acceptable as part of a personal fall arrest system.
• The area below the scaffold to which objects can fall shall be barricaded, and employees shall not be permitted to enter the hazard area.
• A guardrail system shall be installed with openings small enough to prevent passage of potential falling objects.
• Lacking skill and understanding are grounds for retraining employees on Scaffolds.  This includes changes to the scaffolding, inadequate performance of employees near scaffolding or general changes at the worksite.
• Stay at least 10 feet away from energized power lines.
• Conduct a pre-operation inspection to verify that all scaffold components are functioning properly and/or are correctly assembled.
• Not to stand on the guardrail or use any components of the scaffold or other items (e.g., stepladders, buckets, boxes, barrels, etc.) inside the scaffold to gain additional standing height.
• The height to base width ratio of the scaffold during movement is greater than 2 to 1 unless the scaffold is designed and constructed to meet or exceed nationally recognized stability test.
• Builder/Erector Dismantling Planning is essential and required when building/erecting and dismantling Scaffolds.
• Stilts are the materials can be used to increase the working level height of employees on supported scaffolds.
• A catenary scaffold is a scaffold consisting of a platform supported by two essentially horizontal and parallel ropes attached to structural members of a building or other structure.