Formwork and Scaffolding | Uni-Span

One of my many flaws is a fear of heights (pardon the pun). I've attempted to overcome this fear by facing it in a somewhat silly way - by going skydiving. Although the adrenaline racing through my body surely helped in repressing my fears, unfortunately, I still have a fear of heights and gazing out of a plane at 10,000 feet above ground level was most likely the worst experience of my life. Fortunately, there are tonnes of individuals that aren't scared of heights. Construction workers, window washers, and painters are all indispensable jobs in our society that must be conducted at heights. Not surprisingly, what all these jobs have in common is that they utilise various types of scaffolding to perform their jobs. Scaffolding has been around for thousands of years, and the evolution of safety procedures and protocols have been mostly inactive up until the 1970's when numerous laws were introduced to try to improve the safety of workers when using scaffolding.