Benefits of Professional Scaffolding Training in Dubai

Did you know that the career offered in the field of scaffolding can become extremely rewarding? Yes, it is true. Many multinational industries are hunting the competent and qualified professionals to develop a career in this field.

Each year, in numerous accidents, a lot of workers get injuries and several get killed, but every scaffold accident can easily be prevented by proper skills and training. It all starts with the identification of hazards which may include

• Lack and absence of fall protection cause elevation fall injuries
• Overloading and instability causes collapse of scaffold
• When debris, work material or tools fall, workers get struck
• Overhead power lines and proximity may cause electrocution

Scaffolding training in Dubai includes

• Types and nature of electrical hazards, falling object incidents and personnel fall in the work are
• Procedures which come handy and are appropriate for dealing with all the hazards and incorporation of arrest system for falling objects and protection of personnel
• Correct use of scaffolds, and the optimum handling of materials used on scaffolds
• Load carrying capacities and the ratio of maximum intended load for various scaffolds

Other than these topics, all the employees who are working or involved in erecting, moving, disassembling, maintaining, repairing, inspecting or operating scaffolds must have the knowledge of

• Right procedures according to the type of scaffold used in the working
• Intended use, load capacity and design criteria of each and every scaffold

Retraining becomes necessary when

• Changes have been employed on the worksite which can create hazards and personnel do not know about it
• Type of scaffold used changed by the company which require new instructions regarding fall protection, new hazards of equipment and falling object security
• Inadequacies in the performance of employee indicate that staff has not retained the crucial and essential information for safety they were taught earlier

For saving lives and your workers teach them all the fundamental Do’s and Don’ts

DO

• Ensure that any competent person has already inspected the scaffold prior you go up
• Use an arrest system around your body whenever required for personal safety
• Wear a hat made up of hard material whether you work under or on the scaffold
• Keep wearing nonslip soles sturdy shoes
• Watch out for the people standing below and co-worker standing with you
• Move around slowly and carefully
• Ask the person supervising the area to make sure I the condition of scaffold is optimum or not

DON'T

• Act brave and take a chance
• Overload the area
• Keep unnecessary materials, especially debris on a place where someone accidentally knocks them off the scaffold platform or trip over it
• Hit a scaffold with a forklift, truck, a loaded lumber or anything heavy
• Leave the premises while equipment and materials lie on the scaffold platform at the day end
• Used it during windy weather in Dubai