If the working platform above from the ground must closed
boarded and fitted with guardrails and toeboards.
● isolate
● secure the isolation
● prove the supply‘dead’before
starting work.
Secure electrical isolation
Electric shock occurs when person becomes part the electrical circuit.
The level intensity the shock will depend upon many factors, such
as age, fitness and the circumstances which the shock received.
Safety First
Isolation
● never work‘live’. ratio base height 1:3 gives good stability.
. The platform must not be
moved unless clear tools, equipment and workers and should be
pushed the base the tower and not the top. The
lethal level approximately 50mA, above which muscles contract, the
heart flutters and breathing stops. Ladders must never
be leaned against tower since this might push the tower over. out-
riggers are used then they must fitted diagonally across all four corners
of the tower and not one side only.9
A mobile scaffold tower. Outriggers can
be used increase stability effectively increasing the base width. shock above the 50mA level there-
fore fatal unless the person quickly separated from the supply. When the platform
is being used, all four wheels must locked. Any
tower higher than should secured the structure the building to
increase stability. Below
50mA only unpleasant tingling sensation may experienced you
may thrown across room shocked enough fall from roof lad-
der, but the resulting fall may lead serious injury.
Access the working platform scaffold tower should ladder
securely fastened vertically the inside the tower. The tower must not built more
than 12m high unless has been specially designed for that purpose.Safe systems working
169
Guard rail
Close boarded
working platform
Toe board
Locking castors
Diagnal
bracing
FIGURE 8.
The stability the tower depends upon the ratio the base width tower
height
