Course Description: This course is required for anyone designated by a Special Rigger to supervise suspended scaffold use in New York City (NYC).  It is also required for anyone who wants to serve as the Qualified Safety Professional (QSP) on a façade restoration project of a *Major Building in NYC.  After completing this course, a rigging foreman must take an 8-Hour refresher course every 4 years.

Topics:

• Basic rigging and hoisting principles.
• Safety instruction, hazards, use of tools from heights.
• OSHA, NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) Rules and Regulations, Building Code.
• Hands-on training with fall protection, knot tying, wire rope termination, self- rescue, connections, block and tackle, etc.
• PPE.
• Suspended scaffold erection, dismantling and use.
• Inspection, record keeping and logbooks.
• Motor operation, accidents and emergency procedures.
• Protections to be installed.

Pre-requisites:  Students must speak and read English as required by the DOB.  Students must be familiar with suspended scaffolds.
 

Objectives:  Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Recognize hazards with suspended scaffolds.
• Implement hazard mitigation, emergency procedures, means and methods.
• Identify permit requirements and NYC laws relating to the use of suspended scaffolds.
• Understand fall protection and how to deploy equipment.
• Know how to inspect a suspended scaffold, wire rope, tie-backs and equipment.
• Correctly use and operate suspended scaffold motors including emergency controls.
• Install, operate and tie-off rope scaffolds using back hitch and night hitch.
• Install vertical lifelines, chaffing protection and knots.
• Calculate weights of materials and recognize load ratings.
• Correctly name and use rigging hardware, shackles, fist grips, turnbuckles, parapet clamps, etc.

Course Materials:  Will be provided.

CEU’s:  3.2

Duration:  32 Hours of training (not including breaks).

If you have questions please call us at 212-683-7200 or email us at training@site-safety.com.

*Defined as any building undergoing a façade repair or restoration that is over 14 stories in height and where the exterior work is performed over 40’ above the sidewalk.