Inspections · UK duty guide
Scaffold and ladders
The register, and the inspection that keeps it current.
On the file
The scaffold or ladder, the last inspection, and whether it can be used.
Duty
Work at Height Regulations 2005
Where it is used
At the access, before someone climbs.
What the duty covers
- Scaffold tagged, and inspected at the interval the job set.
- Ladders and stepladders on a register, checked before use.
- A scaffold that has not been handed over is not in use.
On the file
- The scaffold or the ladder
- The tag
- The inspection interval
- The last inspection
- Whether it has been handed over
- The pre-use check on a ladder
- Whether it is overdue
How this duty should sit
These notes describe how the duty can sit on a digital record. This page is a guide to a UK duty. It is not a screen in EHSync Safety.
- The last inspection is on the phone, not on a tag nobody can read.
- Overdue is visible before someone climbs.
The duty
The UK law we work to, by name.
Work at Height Regulations 2005
Inspect scaffolding and other access before use, and at the intervals set.
TG20
The industry guide for tube and fitting scaffold. The register follows it.
Who uses it
The person inspecting it. The work-at-height permit reads the same date.
Sits with
Next to the working-at-height assessment and the permit.
What good looks like
A scaffold that has not been handed over is not in use. Overdue is visible before the climb.
Also in Inspections
All guides- Safety inspectionsA check for the thing in front of the supervisor, on a phone, with a photo.
- Safety auditsA deeper check against the system, not a walk-round.
- Welfare inspectionsThe facilities the job is supposed to have, and the state they are in.
- Harness inspectionsThe fall-arrest kit, and the date it was last checked.