Safety
Scaffold inspection checklist
The competent person’s check before each work shift: footing, frame, planking, guardrails and access, with the scaffold’s tag status and a sign-off.
- How often
- Before each work shift
- Who
- Competent person
- Time
- About 10 min
- Items
- 16
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Before you use it
- OSHA 29 CFR 1926.451(f)(3) requires scaffolds and their components to be inspected for visible defects by a competent person before each work shift, and after anything that could affect the scaffold’s structural integrity.
- Under 1926.451(f)(4), a part damaged or weakened below the required strength is repaired or replaced, braced, or taken out of service until it is repaired.
- Adjust the list to the scaffold type, such as supported, mobile or suspended, and use the tag colors your site already uses.
Scaffold
- 1Checkpoint scan
Scan the scaffold’s tag
- 2Note
Location and scaffold type
Foundation and structure
- 3Pass / fail
Base plates and mud sills on firm, level ground
- 4Pass / fail
Uprights plumb; braces and ties in place
- 5Pass / fail
Couplers, pins and connections secure
- 6Pass / fail
No bent, cracked or corroded components
Working platform and access
- 7Pass / fail
Platform fully planked or decked
- 8Pass / fail
Planks secured and free of cracks
- 9Pass / fail
Guardrails, midrails and toeboards on open sides
- 10Pass / fail
Safe access by ladder, stair or built-in access
- 11Pass / fail
Clear of debris, ice and loose material
Surroundings
- 12Pass / fail
Clearance from power lines kept
- 13Pass / fail
Area below barricaded where people could be struck
Result
- 14Choice
Tag status
Safe for use · Use with restrictions · Do not use
- 15Photo
Photo of any defect
- 16Signature
Competent person
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Field types in this template
- Checkpoint scan
- Note
- Pass / fail
- Choice
- Photo
- Signature
In Vardian, readings are checked against their limits as they are entered, and photos and signatures attach to the check itself.
From the sheet to the round
Build a template as a Vardian form, and each line becomes a checkpoint that knows its limit.
Animation: a paper checklist line, compressor discharge pressure with a blank for the reading in bar, becomes a Vardian checkpoint with a limit of 7.0 to 8.5 bar. Scanning the compressor's NFC tag verifies the checkpoint, a reading of 9.1 bar is flagged out of range, and a work order is created from it.
Run this checklist on the round
We'll set it up in Vardian with your checkpoints and limits during a demo.