More Safety Guidelines for Scaffold Use

The following safety guidelines apply to all scaffold use:

• Employees are prohibited from working on scaffolds covered with snow, ice, or other slippery material, except as needed to remove those materials.
• Where swinging loads being hoisted onto or near scaffolds might contact the scaffold, tag lines or equivalent measures to control the loads must be used.
• Work on scaffolds is prohibited during storms or high winds unless a competent person has determined it safe for employees to be on the scaffold and those employees are protected by a personal fall arrest system or wind screens. Wind screens must not be used unless the scaffold is secured against the anticipated wind forces.
• Debris must not be allowed to accumulate on scaffold platforms.
• Makeshift devices (such as boxes or barrels) must not be used on top of scaffold platforms to increase the working height of employees.
• Ladders must not be used on scaffolds to increase the working height of employees, except on large area scaffolds where employers have stabilized the ladder per 29 CFR 1926.451(f).

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