COURSE OVERVIEW

Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes practical sessions and demonstration where participants’ carryout scaffolding inspections. Theory learnt in the class will be applied using various scaffolding equipment through hands-on practical sessions.

 

Scaffolding is widely used during construction and maintenance activities. In its simplest form, a scaffold is any temporary elevated or suspended work surface used to support manpower, equipment and/or materials. The construction industry gives rise to very intensive use of scaffolds. 65% of the construction manpower are regularly involved in the use of scaffolds and other elevated work platforms. These scaffolds are moved and/or dismantled more frequently and are used under more adverse conditions. 

 

Therefore, scaffolds result in hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries per year, which costs the construction industry worldwide around US$900 million dollars.  The consequences of such accidents cost the international economy over US$15 billion dollars per year.  Documented injury accidents are only a small portion of the total number of accidents and costs.  The goal of the construction industry is to assist in preventing even a minor part of this injury, death, and property damage.

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TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies:

30 % Lectures
20 % Workshops & Work Presentations
20 % Case Studies & Practical Exercises
30 % Videos, Software & Simulators

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable:

Certificates	:	Only soft copy certificates will be issued
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy materials will be issued
Training Methodology	:	80% theory, 20% practical
Training Program	:	4 hours per day, from 09:30 to 13:30