Scaffold Competent Person Training 8 Hour

Classroom-based Fundamentals
Duration: 8 Hours (Primarily classroom instruction with limited hands-on demonstration)

Who Should Attend:

Workers, supervisors, foremen, and safety personnel who need to be designated by their employer as a Scaffold Competent Person and who are involved in erecting, dismantling, using, or supervising scaffold operations.

Course Description:

This 8-hour training course provides the regulatory knowledge, hazard recognition skills, and operational fundamentals necessary to support the duties of a Scaffold Competent Person. Instruction is primarily classroom-based and focuses on scaffold regulations, hazard recognition, scaffold components, stability and capacity principles, and safe erection, use, and dismantling fundamentals, with limited hands-on demonstrations used to reinforce key concepts.

Course Topic Breakdown:

• OSHA / Cal-OSHA scaffold regulations and competent person responsibilities
• Scaffold hazard recognition and corrective action fundamentals
• Scaffold types, components, and terminology
• Foundations, stability, and structural support principles
• Capacity and loading fundamentals
• Fall protection and access considerations
• Safe erection, use, and dismantling fundamentals
• Limited hands-on demonstration and hazard identification review
• Written evaluation

Designation Statement:

Completion of this course provides fundamental knowledge, but the employer must evaluate and deem the worker competent and authorize them to act as the Scaffold Competent Person.