PESO: Scaffolds
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PESO: Easy-To-Use Training in English and Spanish
PESO: Easy-To-Use Training in English and Spanish PESO is an easy-to-use, bilingual toolkit created by the Oregon OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Program to help employers deliver job safety training and reduce workplace injuries and illnesses. The complete toolkit contains tookbox talks, handouts,training modules and overheads to use for presentations. The complete toolkits are posted on the OR-OSHA website at www.orosha.org. The following are links to the PESO toolbox talks in this collection:
Documents
- PESO: Accident Investigation
- PESO: Biological Hazards
- PESO: Excavations
- PESO: Hazard Communication
- PESO: Hazardous Energy Control
- PESO: Hazard Identification
- PESO: Industrial Vehicles
- PESO: Machine Guards
- PESO: Manual Material Handling
- PESO: Health in Construction
- PESO: Portable Ladders
- PESO: Scaffolds
- PESO: Slide Guards
- PESO: Safety Committee
Summary Statement
Brief description of potential hazards and precautions when working on scaffolds. Part of a collection. Click on the 'collection' button to access the other items.
Let´s look at five things that are putting in danger the safety of the workers on this job site! The platform is the scaffold´s work area - make sure its safe!
A scaffold, like a good home, must be built on a solid base!
![]() Bad base - scaffold suported on blocks resting on dirt and rocks. |
![]() Good base - scaffold supported on wooden mud sills. |
![]() ![]() Always tightly lock the wheels of rolling scaffolds, and do not move the scaffold while standing on it. |