Scaffold Inspection Record
Keep a dated inspection history for one scaffold, with findings and the action taken recorded beside each inspection.
Site and construction · SI-08
A free printable temporary works register — each item designed, checked, permitted to load and permitted to remove, with dates and signatures.
One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
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Give every piece of propping, shoring, falsework or edge protection an owner and four dated signatures, so nothing is loaded or struck on an assumption.
Site managers, temporary works coordinators, small builders and anyone propping, shoring or supporting something during construction.
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: A register of everything temporary that something else is relying on — propping, shoring, falsework, edge protection.
Every item has an owner and four signatures. Temporary works fail when nobody owns them. This register records who designed each item, who checked the design, who signed it off for loading and who signed it off for removal. It sets no design standard and prints no loads. Who may authorise and carry out this work, what training and certification they need, what must be recorded and how long it must be kept differ by country and by workplace. This sheet names no scheme, sets no criteria and satisfies no regulation on its own — check what applies where you are.
Write-on lines: Project · Temporary works coordinator · Register started
Table, 9 rows: Ref · Item and location · Designed by · Design checked by · Check date · Permit to load — signed and dated · Permit to remove — signed and dated · Status
Ruled lines: Anything still open, and who is chasing it
Keep a dated inspection history for one scaffold, with findings and the action taken recorded beside each inspection.
Record a day on site while it is happening, because delay, weather and verbal instructions all become arguments later and are trivial to note now.
Set out how a job will actually be done in sequence, with the controls written against the step they belong to rather than in a block nobody reads.
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