Scaffold Erector and Dismantler in Construction (Federal OSHA) Online Training

This online course is the classroom part of training for workers who erect and dismantle scaffolds in construction. It follows the federal OSHA scaffold rules (29 CFR 1926.450, 1926.451, 1926.452 and 1926.454) and the fall protection system criteria in 1926.502(d). 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
• Guardrails, 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 en la construcción (OSHA federal): 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 competent person, a qualified person or an approved erector. The federal rule requires training by a competent person (1926.454(b)), and this course is the online classroom part. Your employer completes your on-the-job training and confirms your skills with the M Squared hands-on checklist. This is the Federal OSHA course. California workers should take the Cal/OSHA version, and if you work in a state with its own OSHA-approved plan, that state may have different or more stringent rules.