Mobile Scaffold Tower Safety

Overview

Mobile Scaffold Tower Safety should be managed through a planned system of work: identify the task-specific hazards, eliminate exposure where practical, use engineered or collective controls before relying on PPE, verify critical safeguards before starting, and stop the task when controls are missing or conditions change. This guide applies those principles specifically to setup, locking, access and movement control for mobile scaffold towers.

Main Hazards

• • Tower movement while occupied or with unlocked casters
• • Instability from height, slope or missing bracing
• • Collapse, falling material or structural instability
• • Falls, unsafe access and struck-by exposure
• • Underground services or changing ground conditions

Essential Controls

1. 1Use level firm surfaces, required bracing and locked casters during work.
2. 2Move the tower only under the approved method and keep people/material controlled during relocation.
3. 3Inspect the work area by a competent person and reassess after changing conditions.
4. 4Provide stable access, edge protection and physical separation from mobile equipment.
5. 5Control collapse, falling-object and service-strike hazards before work starts.
6. 6Stop work when weather, ground, loading or structural conditions invalidate the safe system.

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