Scaffold Stair Tower Safety

This is in response to your april 30 1999 fax asking for clarification of osha s policy regarding the use of scaffold stair towers for access to upper floors during construction of multistory buildings.

Scaffold stair tower safety.

Point load applied at the center of any stair tread. These additions make this tower the ultimate in rigidity. Uniformly distributed load capacity and 495 lbs. Whether subpart l or subpart x requirements apply to scaffold stair towers used for access to multistory buildings.

Safe use of a scaffold tower or mobile tower. Walk thru frame scaffolding with 76 in. 20 non rolling scaffold stair tower. You must ensure that not only the person building the tower is.

We sell high quality construction scaffolding scaffold towers shoring supplies system equipment and scaffold accessories at wholesale prices. Don t risk your own life or the lives of others. I have inside and or outside handrails. Super deluxe like our deluxe towers super deluxe includes the deluxe safety rail system with the addition of 7 toe boards.

6 5 w x 6 4 t walk thru scaffold frames 6 7 x 4 hot dipped galvanized cross braces 8 coupling pins 8 spring retainer clips. These stair deck indoor scaffold towers are simple to assemble and come supplied with everything you need including the safety handrail working platform ladder access system and safety toe boards stabilisers and adjustable locking. Stair towers have a 5 x7 footprint which is a lot of space while our scaffold ladders have about a 1 5 x 1 5 footprint. The scaffold stair towers are the most common and safest method of obtaining access to scaffold units and should be included within this subpart.

Stairway units and ladder covering 800 lbs. 2 368 suggested that osha insert a new paragraph 1926 451 c 5 as follows. Scaffold ladders are faster to assemble and require fewer materials and they may be more practical when there will be less ingress and egress onto the scaffolding platform or when the scaffolding platform is not. Safer stack tower is built with 5ft.

Additionally super deluxe internal stair towers are double braced and come equipped with our patented internal stair clamp technology. Call 800 592 1718 for a free quote. This non rolling scaffold stair tower is the safest means of working at elevated heights. The metaltech new complete 26 ft.

If you are using any item of work at height equipment in the workplace including a scaffold tower either as an employee or as a self employed person the work at height regulations apply to you. The work at height 2005 regulations. In particular one commenter ex.