Scaffold Erector and Dismantler (Cal/OSHA) Online Training

This online course is the classroom part of training for workers who erect and dismantle scaffolds in California. It follows the Cal/OSHA Construction Safety Orders on scaffolds, including 8 CCR 1637, 1644, 1646 and 1658, with the fall protection rules in 1670 and the power line rules in 2946. It includes a step-by-step harness inspection and fitting.

What you learn

• Who does what, and your training
• Scaffold types and what each needs
• Foundations, bracing and ties
• Platforms and planking
• Railings, access and falling objects
• Capacity, loads and weather
• Fall protection while you build and take down
• Inspections, tags and power lines
• Taking scaffolds down, and moving them
• A final lesson listing what to review with your supervisor at your company

How it works

• You take the course online, at your own pace, on a phone or a computer.
• The final exam opens after you finish the lessons.
• Each topic lesson ends with practice questions that do not count toward your score.
• The final exam has 25 questions drawn at random. You need 80 percent to pass, and you get 3 attempts.
• When you pass the final exam, you finish the online classroom part. M Squared Safety Solutions, Inc. issues your certificate of completion after it reviews your employer's signed hands-on checklist. The certificate expires 1 year after it is issued.
• This course is also available in Spanish: Armador y desarmador de andamios (Cal/OSHA): capacitación en línea.

The hands-on part, at your workplace

• This product is the online classroom part. Your employer evaluates your hands-on skills at your workplace with the M Squared hands-on checklist: download the checklist (PDF).
• Your employer emails the signed checklist to matt@msquaredsafety.com and monica@msquaredsafety.com. You upload nothing.
• M Squared reviews the checklist, then marks the course complete and your certificate is issued.

Questions

Call an M Squared trainer at 949-954-6581, Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM Pacific time. A trainer answers in English and Spanish.

Your employer's part

This online course does not replace the training your employer must give on your own job: site-specific training, and hands-on practice and evaluation where the rule requires them.

What this course does not do

Completing this course does not make you a qualified person, a competent person or an approved erector, and the M Squared certificate is not a certification of competence. Your employer completes your on-the-job training and confirms your skills with the M Squared hands-on checklist. This is the Cal/OSHA course, and federal OSHA's rules differ in several places. A federal OSHA version of this course is sold separately. If you work in another state, that state may have different or more stringent rules.