Preventing Falls from Height - Safety Information
Scaffolding
- Best Practice Guidelines for Scaffolding – 2009 [html]
Industry lead guidelines of preferred work practices, or arrangements, for the purpose of ensuring the highest levels of health and safety for all those affected by scaffolding activities in New Zealand.
- Safe Access – Working at Height – Sept 2004 - [html] or [pdf, 2 pages 88KB]
This accident report after a sawmill worker was fatally injured when he fell onto a concrete surface from a walkway at a height of 2.05 metres.
- Scaffolding 1999 [pdf, 2 pages 57KB]
Scaffolding is a temporary means of support used by most trades in the construction industry as a means of access, a platform to work from and/or to store or support materials; and a way to provide protection to persons below.
