[End of book] Voluntary Checklist based on Amendments to the Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health Related to Scaffolding

Voluntary Checklist based on Amendments to the Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health Related to Scaffolding (Effective July 2015)

◎means measures prescribed in the revised Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health

Other measures are promoted in accordance with the revised ” Outline for Promotion of Comprehensive Measures to Prevent Falls from Scaffolding.” Check whether your measures are “appropriate” for each check item.
(In particular, if ◎ is not appropriate, correct immediately.)

How to enter this table

1.Tick (✓) in the “Applicable” and ” Measures” columns for either “Yes/No” or ” Appropriate/Not applicable.”

2.1(2) Describe specific difficult cases, etc. in parentheses at the bottom of the “Check item” column.

For 3.1(2) and 2(2), tick (✓) in the appropriate box for measures to be taken in the “Remarks” column. For other cases, describe specific details in parentheses.

*(1) “Specific difficult cases, etc. ”

The following cases shall apply.

(1) When the sum of the clearances between the standards and both ends of floor material in the direction of beams is less than 24 cm:

(2) When it is difficult to make the sum of the gaps between the standards and the two ends of the flooring less than 24 centimeters in the direction between the beams due to the nature of the work. This does not apply to work floors for steel pipe scaffolding with a structure in which the flooring and brackets are fixed in a specific position. This shall not apply to those in use as of July 1, 2015.

*(2) “Equipment for the safe installation of safety belts, etc. ”

“Equipment for the safe installation of safety belts” means equipment to which safety belts are attached which does not come off even when a worker wearing the safety belts properly performs falls operation falls, which prevents the equipment to which the safety belts are attached from reaching the impact surface, etc., and which enables the safety belts to be installed in appropriate positions according to the performance of the safety belts in use. Handrails, handrail frames and master ropes designed to meet such requirements and installed to meet such requirements are included.

,” etc.” of “Equipment for safely attaching safety belts, etc.” includes cases where frames, standards, handrails, etc. can be used as equipment for safely attaching safety belts.

*3 “Persons with sufficient knowledge and experience”

Other persons with sufficient knowledge and experience include those who have the qualifications required for “planning participants” for notification of scaffolding installation, etc. under Article 88 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act, such as occupational safety consultants (those whose examination category is civil engineering or construction), those who have taken the “training for qualification as a temporary safety supervisor” provided by the Alliance Cooperation of Construction Equipment & Scaffolding for Safety, or the “practical scaffolding inspection training for construction managers, etc.” provided by the Japan Construction Occupational Safety and Health Association.