Ensuring scaffolding safety requires special skills. Patera does it for you, as a leading scaffolding safety expert, in collaboration with your company and your scaffolding supplier.
The scaffolding safety supervision and independent scaffolding inspection service verifies occupational safety with regard to the construction and use of scaffolding on behalf of the client. Whether the question is a single boiler rack or a whole construction/industrial site, our qualified scaffolding safety experts ensure that the scaffolding is always built according to the standards of the scaffolding manufacturer, legislation, and the client, and that the scaffolding is built correctly and is thus safe to use.
Our scaffolding safety supervisors are also HSE supervision professionals, which always enables combined HSE and scaffolding safety supervision by Patera.
Regardless of who builds the scaffolding, the scaffolding client is always responsible for the safety of the scaffolding throughout its use.
As an independent scaffolding safety expert, we carry out commissioning and weekly inspection on scaffolding at your site on behalf of the client, instead of the scaffolding supplier that constructed the scaffolding also inspecting the scaffolding they have built themselves – in practice, verifying their own work.
- Commissioning and weekly inspections are carried out by an external expert - not the scaffolder.
- We eliminate the risk of superficial inspections and conflicts of interest
- We act as a third party from the client’s point of view and take into account the client’s
interests.
- We ensure that scaffolding is safe before use and can stand up to inspection - including by the authorities.
Supervision of shutdown scaffolding by Patera frees up resources for other shutdown work. Our customers who use the scaffolding safety supervision service have noticed improved quality of scaffolding work and thereby improvement in occupational safety. The scaffolding is made with higher quality even after shutdowns, because the lessons learned from supervision about construction-level requirements develop scaffolders’ skills and also provide the client with the expertise to demand higher-quality scaffolding from their scaffolding supplier.
In addition, supervision meets the requirement of the Occupational Safety and Health Act to supervise the working environment and occupational safety and to use an external expert if adequate expertise is not available.
Our scaffolding safety supervisors are also HSE supervision experts, which always enables combined HSE and scaffolding safety supervision by Patera.