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Section 203: Tower scaffold

The Building and Other Construction Workers' (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Jharkhand Rules, 2006State Rules of Jharkhand · 1996

The employer shall ensure at a constructions site of a building or other construction work that-

(a) the height of every tower scaffold used in building or other construction work is not more than eight times, the lesser of a base dimension of such scaffold ;

(b) a tower scaffold is lashed to a building or a fixed structure before being used by the building workers;

(c) any tower scaffold which can be moved or castered is -

(i) constructed with due regard to the stability and, if necessary, adequately weighted at the base;

(ii) used only on plain and even surface ;and

(iii) has casters provided with positive locking devices to hold such scaffold in position;

(d) no building worker remains on board scaffold, tools, material when it is being shifted from one position to another position.

204. Gear for suspension of scaffold - The employer shall ensure at a construction site of a building or other construction work that - (a) chains, ropes or lifting gears used for suspension of a scaffold are of adequate strength, made of sound material and suitable for the purpose of their used and are maintained in good repairs ;

(b) chains, wires, ropes or metal tubes used for the suspension of a scaffold are -

(i) properly and securely fastened to every anchorage point and to the scaffold ledgers of other main supporting members used for the support of such scaffold, and

(ii) so positioned as to ensure stability of the scaffold.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Building and Other Construction Workers' (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Jharkhand Rules, 2006
Section203
Marginal noteTower scaffold
JurisdictionState of Jharkhand
StatusIn force as published by the source

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