CISRS SITS - Basic Scaffold Inspection

This CISRS accredited course will develop your understanding of scaffolding components, forms of construction and the inspection procedures for basic access scaffolds and how to comply with current legislation and Codes of Practice.

Entry Requirements

CISRS expect delegates to have awareness and experience of scaffolding structures, which would have
come from time spent in their individual industry sector (construction, engineering, manufacturing, offshore etc.)

This experience would need to be confirmed by your CV or a similar document and should include contactable references and/or certificates. Examples of acceptable experience are:
• Delegate holds current CISRS Scaffolder/Advanced Card
• Delegate has previously attended a Scaffold Appreciation/ Awareness course and Scaffold Inspection course
• A good understanding of spoken and written English is required. Please contact us if you have any concerns in this area.
• The CITB HS&E Test (or accepted exemption) needs to have been passed within the previous 23 months before the course start date.

Course Content

• Introduction and welcome
• Course scope, aims and objectives
• Legal overview
• Inspections/hand-over procedures/scaff tag system
• Reports
• European Standards (BS EN 12811:2003)
• NASC guidance document SG4
• Working at Height Regulations 2005
• Health & Safety at Work Act 1974
• Scaffold components/material
• Scaffold terminology
• Means of access and egress
• Gin wheels and ropes
• Scaffold foundation
• Scaffold tie
• Basic scaffold
• Working platforms
• Basic independent tied and putlog scaffold
• TG20 compliant scaffolds