Equip your staff with skills to understand and work safely on scaffolding. This IIRSM-approved Scaffolding Awareness course educates employees on the fundamentals of scaffolding safety, including the types, components, hazards and legal requirements. It also explores the hierarchy of risk controls and actionable strategies for employees to minimise risks.
Investing in this course ensures your staff is well-equipped to handle scaffolding safely, reducing accidents and ensuring compliance with regulations.
Explores employers’ and employees’ duties and responsibilities and relevant legislation.
Discusses two types of scaffolding—supported and suspended scaffolds—and their sub-types.
Examines various scaffolding components, including tubes, bracing, couplers, base plates, boards, guard rails and anchor points.
Examines common types of scaffolding accidents and their root causes.
Highlights the first two steps of the risk control hierarchy: eliminating the use of scaffolding when possible and substituting it with a safer alternative.
Focuses on physical changes to control or eliminate hazards, such as ground stability, safe working loads, non-slip surfaces, safety nets, guard rails, etc.
Covers various administrative controls including competency, training, communication and inspections.
Recommends the use of protective equipment such as safety boots, gloves, coveralls, hard hats, eyewear and fall arrest systems.
Highlights steps workers can take to ensure their safety, such as following safety measures, understanding equipment, reporting issues and providing feedback and suggestions.
What You Will Learn
Legal duties and responsibilities related to scaffolding
Hierarchy of risk controls for scaffolding work
Different types and components of scaffolding
Importance of using personal protective equipment (PPE)
How and why scaffolding accidents occur
Actionable steps to ensure scaffolding safety
Available in 13 Languages
Course subtitles are available in multiple languages, including:
This course is approved by the International Institute of Risk & Safety Management (IIRSM).
The course certificate includes:
User name
Company name
Course name
Completion date
Expiry date
Approval body
An IIRSM-approved certificate will be available for download and printing instantly upon course completion.
Users must complete an assessment before earning their certificate.
The end-of-course test is:
Fully online
Multiple choice
A score of 80% is required to pass.
Customer Feedback
Why Is This Course Important?
Scaffolding-related incidents are a significant concern in the construction industry. The National Access & Scaffolding Confederation (NASC) reported 74 incidents among scaffolding operatives in 2020, equating to one injury per 230 workers. These incidents highlight the critical need for proper training and awareness.
Our Scaffold Awareness training course helps employees identify and address common safety issues associated with scaffold use. They learn to assess risks, implement control measures and fulfil their legal responsibilities.
By completing this course, users will be better prepared to reduce the likelihood of accidents and injuries on job sites, ensuring a safer work environment for themselves and others.
Are You Aware of Your Responsibilities?
As an employer, you have a legal and moral obligation to ensure the safety of your employees, particularly when scaffolding is involved. Your responsibilities include:
Assessing the risk of any work involving scaffolding
Ensuring scaffolding work is supervised by competent personnel
Providing adequate training for employees
Conducting regular inspections of scaffolding
Adhering to safety regulations and industry standards
These duties are reinforced by key legislation, including:
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
Work at Height Regulations 2005
Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM Regulations)
Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER)
Non-compliance may lead to legal repercussions such as fines, penalties and even prosecution.
By enrolling your team in this Scaffold Awareness training course, you fulfil these responsibilities and demonstrate your commitment to maintaining a safe work environment.
About This Scaffold Awareness Course
This course is an awareness level course designed for anyone is work requires them to work with scaffolding. It provides a framework for understanding scaffolding, its hazards and how risks are eliminated or reduced when undertaking scaffolding work.
Scaffolding safety training course empowers users to work safely and efficiently on or around scaffolding and supports compliance with safety standards.
Frequently Asked Questions
This course is designed for construction workers, site supervisors, health and safety professionals, and any employees involved in scaffolding operations.
The course covers the following topics:
Legal duties and responsibilities
Types and components of scaffolding
Causes of scaffolding accidents
Risk control hierarchy
Scaffolding inspection requirements
Steps to ensure scaffolding safety
This is a single-module course and takes about 40 minutes to complete.
Yes. After completing this course, you’ll receive an IIRSM-approved certificate.
This course is approved by IIRSM (the International Institute of Risk & Safety Management).
The course teaches employees to identify and mitigate scaffolding risks, implement safety measures and fulfil legal responsibilities, all of which contribute to reducing workplace accidents and injuries.
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