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Scaffolding FLHA examples

Erecting, altering, inspecting and dismantling scaffold and mobile towers. Pick the job below to see a complete FLHA with every step, hazard and control, download it as a Word template, or make your own in a couple of minutes.

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Common scaffolding hazards

Falling tools and materialsTools, materials or debris fall from above and hit someone working or walking below.
Falling from heightA worker falls from an edge, platform or opening and is badly hurt or killed. Fall protection is needed from 3 metres, and at any height over machinery, water or other hazards.
Scaffold collapse or fall from scaffoldA scaffold that is badly built, overloaded or altered collapses or tips, or a worker falls from an unguarded platform.
Lifting and carrying heavy loadsLifting, carrying, pushing or twisting with heavy or awkward loads strains the back, shoulders or knees.
Public entering the work areaMembers of the public, including children, walk into the site and are hit by plant or falling objects, or fall into holes.
Contact with overhead power linesA ladder, aerial work platform, crane, dump truck or long length of material touches or gets close to an overhead line and electrocutes people.

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