Health and Safety

[anonymous-user]

So what are your thoughts on this one?

Christmas market in Edinburgh and the stand is being supported in this way. Safe or not?

[Collectingbrass]

I'd prefer to see the sole plates pegged to the ground but that's an engineered scaffold and someone qualified will have signed off the design.

[Cold]

That's ridiculous. Christmas shouldn't start until December.

[anonymous-user]

Cold said:

That's ridiculous. Christmas shouldn't start until December.

Agree what that one.

[ALawson]

Collectingbrass said:

I'd prefer to see the sole plates pegged to the ground but that's an engineered scaffold and someone qualified will have signed off the design.

I don't think it falls under TG20 2013 as a standard design, and most scaffold companies leave the ability of a structure to take tie loads and the ground to support the vertical loads to someone else, normally the PC or main contractor/client.

That detail looks a bit rough, I would have expected a cut timber block providing a level base for the sole plate and for that to be spiked into the slope adequately.

That does the top look like?

[gazza285]

Without knowing what else the scaffold is tied into it is not possible to comment as to the scaffolding's suitability from that photograph.

[MRichards99]

Give it a few whacks with a long scaffolding pole (or your favourite BFH) and find out

[garagewidow]

Should have at least dug out/notched the bank(if allowed)to let the timber sit on level ground.

[Gary29]

To my untrained eye, it doesn't look horrendous, a few braces from different angles that look like they would stop it moving.

Just don't get too excited and start jumping up and down when you see Father Christmas and you should be ok I reckon.

[jshell]

ALawson said:

That does the top look like?

It's clamped to a wrought iron fence alongside the footpath.