Basic Scaffolding Training & Licence

Basic Scaffolding training pre requirements:

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Have the necessary levels of health and fitness to safely carry out work as a scaffolder
• Must be able to provide 100 points of identity

Basic Scaffolding course covers:

• OH&S Legislation (Acts, Regulations and Duty of Care)
• Application of Australian standards
• Fall prevention
• Personal and general safety inspection and application of fibre ropes, bends, hitches, splices and gin wheels
• Plan and prepare work
• Estimating weights and quantities of scaffold gear
• Inspection of equipment
• Preparing auxiliary scaffolding equipment
• Scaffold construction
• Erect modular scaffold and gin wheel
• Alterations to scaffold
• Tie construction
• Dismantling skills

Sessions and duration:

Depends on level of operator experience

Obtaining your Licence:

If successful a temporary licence is issued on the day; you then need to submit an application for a WorkSafe licence at any Post Office which must be accompanied with a $60 fee.