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Excerpt from Safety Engineering: Applied to Scaffolds Scaffolds are employed widely and by many different classes of workmen; but as they are erected for temporary use only, they seldom receive the thoughtful consideration that is given to permanent structures. They are badly designed and badly built, as a rule, and all too often the materials that are used in them are poor in quality and deficient in size and quantity. In fact there appears to be a wide-spread and almost universal belief to the effect that a scaffold is not worth serious study; that anybody who can drive nails can build one that will serve; and that anything that may happen to be at hand is good enough to go into it. The result is, that bricklaying, carpenter work, painting, decorating, and many other operations in which men must work at some considerable height, and life and limb are constantly at stake, are often performed by the aid of scaffolds that are distinctly dangerous, and altogether unfit for the purpose for which they were intended. The very fact that scaffolds must be erected is sometimes entirely overlooked in making bids for building operations and other extensive work of a similar nature, and it is by no means uncommon for a sub-contract or to make no provision of his own for the materials for his scaffolds, but to rely upon picking up something about the job that will serve his purpose. These remarks are not inspired by mere pessimism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.