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.
