Scaffolding is a temporary work platform, walkway, and support system erected to ensure the smooth progress of construction. It provides a safe and stable foothold for construction workers, allowing them to perform overhead work, stack materials, and transport materials horizontally over short distances.
First, the Core Roles and Importance of Industrial Scaffolding
- Providing a Safe Working Platform: Ensuring workers have a safe and reliable working surface at various heights is its most fundamental function.
- Ensuring the passage of personnel and the transportation of materials: Providing temporary passages within and between construction floors.
- Temporarily storing construction materials such as bricks, mortar, and formwork.
- Supporting the formwork system: Providing support for the formwork system during cast-in-place concrete structures (such as floor slabs and beams).
Second, Key Points for the Safe Use and Management of Industrial Scaffolding
Scaffolding accidents are a common occurrence on construction sites, making safety management a top priority.
- Plan First: A specific construction plan must be developed by professional technicians based on the project’s specific circumstances. Specific requirements for tall formwork supports, for example, require expert review.
- Technical Briefing: Before erection, detailed safety and technical briefings must be provided to workers.
- Certification Requirements: Scaffolding erection and dismantling must be performed by trained, certified professional scaffolders.
- Material Acceptance: The use of unqualified steel pipes, fasteners, scaffolding boards, and other materials is strictly prohibited. Steel pipes must not be severely rusted, bent, flattened, or cracked.
- Use after Acceptance: After erection, before use, and before reactivation after a work stoppage, scaffolding must undergo both section-by-section and overall acceptance inspections. Only use is permitted after passing these inspections. The acceptance forms must be signed and confirmed.
- Regular Inspections: During use, the foundation should be regularly inspected for water accumulation, deformation of members, loosening of wall ties, and the integrity of safety guards, especially after strong winds or heavy rain.
- Overloading is Strictly Prohibited: Construction loads on the working floor must meet design requirements. Overloading materials is strictly prohibited.
Scaffolding is the “cornerstone” of construction. Its safety is directly related to the safety of life and property of the entire construction site. The development direction of technology is safer, more efficient, and more standardized. When selecting and using scaffolding, we must always adhere to the principle of “safety first”, strictly abide by technical specifications and management processes, and ensure that there are no accidents.
Post time: Oct-09-2025