When searching for any type of access equipment, it is crucial to find the right option for the job. It is essential that you don't select scaffolding hire on price alone, since cheaper options are typically not safe or durable. There are three important considerations to make when selecting access equipment.

Safety First

Scaffolding hire can be costly, but there is a good reason for this. There are numerous materials and features that go into creating safe, durable and reliable scaffolding structures. It is important to find scaffolding that meets the established safety requirements. Equipment that has no safety accreditation may wind up costing you your life, which is why this consideration is, perhaps, the most important.

Features of safe and durable scaffolding include:

• Purpose designed platforms for safe standing.
• Quality stabilizers included with the towers. Stabilizers should never be considered an extra or add-on.
• Safe distances in between the slip resistant surfaces and rungs.
• Guardrails.
• User instructions.

Your Specifications and Requirements

It is important to have a clear idea of why the scaffolding is needed. This is essential to find the right scaffolding for the job. Roofing, rendering and building each have different requirements and there are several scaffolding options offered for each of these jobs.  

The weight of the person using the scaffolding also has to be considered. In this consideration, you must also keep in mind any helpers that may be present, as well as the equipment that will be used.

Also, consider whether or not you will be doing a job that requires you to move the scaffolding from one place to another. All of these considerations will help you find an option that is right for you. If you have to move the scaffolding from place to place, you will need an option that is easy to move and then reconstruct quickly. This will reduce project downtime.

The Height of the Project

Scaffolding is offered in particular dimensions, which will allow you to reach the working height required. It is important to remember that most accidents that occur on scaffolding due so as a result of user error, not defects in the tower. This is why it is essential to find a tower that is the right height to minimize the potential of overstretching or falling from any height.

Finding the right scaffolding will help ensure injuries don't take place. It will also help the project get done faster.