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Section 170: Tower scaffold

Punjab Building and Other Construction Workers ( (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 2008.) Rules, 2008State Rules of Punjab · 1996

The employer shall ensure at a construction site of a building or other construction work that,—

(a) the height of every tower scaffold, used in a 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 is,—

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

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

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

(d) no building worker, tool or material shall remain on board of the scaffold, when it is being shifted from one position to another position.

Where this provision sits

ActPunjab Building and Other Construction Workers ( (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 2008.) Rules, 2008
Section170
Marginal noteTower scaffold
JurisdictionState of Punjab
StatusIn force as published by the source

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