Scaffold : A Review of Safety Conditions on Sites

Abstract

From the beginning, safety has been an essential point that has to be taken under consideration on any construction site. It may not be possible to completely eliminate the misfortunes in the construction industry because of the perilous nature of construction operations involved in it. However, if safety measures are properly imposed, it will help in curtailing accidental injuries in the various operations involved in different types of civil engineering works. Improper scaffolding and ignorance of the safety instructions may lead to fatal accidents on site. People on construction scaffoldings work in dynamically varying, often adverse climate which may increase risk of accidents. It is therefore necessary that obligatory safety should be taken care on while working in a risky environment to prevent misfortunes and troublesome situations. As scaffolding is a temporary structure used to carry out different works at heights the higher components affecting the scaffolding related works that leads to accidents at the construction sites are caused by the human factors. Scaffolding hazards are accident hazard, physical hazard, chemical hazard, psychological hazard, ergonomic hazard and organizational factors. Control measures are needed to be taken and the labors working on site must be provided with proper training regarding the safety and acknowledgement of scaffolding hazard and perquisites of measures as improper use of scaffolding is considered fearsome. This paper presents a review of all such authors who studied about the safety measures that are to be focused on while laying a scaffolding on site.