Scaffolds must follow safety regulations of work to prevent people or working tools falling. The following factors are extremely important.

1. When lifting or lowering materials, scaffolders must be working within a scaffolding system that is fully erected, with double guard-rails and toe boards.

2. Safety harnesses should be worn at all times by scaffolders when they are working on the platforms. And fitted with a 1.75m length lanyard and a 55m opening scaffold hook or similar for one-handed operation. Harnesses should be anchored to a secure anchorage point which requires the following minimum conditions:

1)The scaffold must be tied into a sound structure as work processed

2)Attachment can be made to a ledger, transom or guard-rail supported with load bearing couplers or a transom supported by ledgers in a lift above fixed at both ends by single couplers.

3. Safe scaffolding ladder access for scaffolders should be incorporated as early as possible into the erection process.

4. Scaffolders should not be clambering up and down scaffolds without proper scaffolding ladder access and safe working platforms provided on each lift being worked on.

5. The anchors specified to tie a scaffold to a structure are suitable for the base material and that they are installed correctly.

6. Scaffolds should not be overloaded with equipment, especially tube and fittings, during erections or dismantling operations.