Scaffold Platforms And OSHA
Used scaffold platforms are items that could be dangerous; however, they are built by people using specialized equipment with safety in mind. The danger is considered to be negligible. If not treated correctly, the scaffold platforms could be slippery or even break from an excessive weight load. Or if the load is not calculated and specified correctly. Safety is the watchword in the manufacturing of a scaffold platform and the scaffold plank, the platform is made of as well as the scaffold itself. A scaffolding platform (and the ladder structure that holds the scaffolding platform) could be made out of wood, steel, aluminum, or the newer 'filled' plastic materials recently developed for airplanes, automobiles, sport boats, and ships.
Getting The Most Out Of Scaffold Platforms
Architects are even using scaffolds as an 'art form.' Some of the more modern buildings in Los Angeles for example, use plank scaffold designs to:
hang plants
let exotic plants, creeping vines and colorful leaved plants crawl upwards in alcoves and within the buildings using scaffolds.
Human engineering in the design of work places have dictated the installation of these kinds of items like a plank scaffold for the well being of company or city employees relaxing during break periods and at lunch - it has long been determined that the employees are more productive when working in pleasant surroundings. It has almost become an ergonomic discipline requirement for designers of office and workplace buildings.
Scaffolding Platforms Can Transform A City
A Scaffolding contractor is attuned to this and has made some spectacular scaffolds and a scaffold platform that hardly look like the traditional scaffolds or platforms. They are stylish in both the painting and re-design. Plants grow on or about the scaffolds profusely both in the private commercial sector and on the city properties in downtown Los Angeles. Often abandoned and used scaffold pieces are used to give the restored area that "inner-city" renewed look.
Along a half-mile stretch below Los Feliz Boulevard and up to the Sunnynook area pedestrian bridge, there were once some intrusive wild trees; they were removed in 1998. The grant of money was to provide access to the small islands by using city owned used scaffolds and scaffold plank material to cut the intrusive and invasive plants, called Arundo. These plant scaffolds would be removed as soon as the Arundo plants were. Some of the used scaffold plank materials were then used to build more scaffold platforms to house plant containers and vases, with a Mexican motif, to beautify Los Angeles city congregational areas near bus and train stops such as the now famous Blue Line Train.
This public works endeavor has been very successful in the downtown area of Los Angeles. New spots are still being selected to place more scaffold platforms and plank scaffold for planting and transplanting exotic and climbing plants.
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