London company comes to market with a revolutionary new scaffold inspection device system.
A new company was born earlier this month with the launch of its innovative product at an event in Kings Cross London.
Using the latest cloud technology the new product is set to bring scaffolding inspection systems into the 21st century.
SafeTime®, the London based firm behind the system have designed the product from the ground up with simplicity as its first priority.
Readers of ScaffMag will know that it is a legal requirement to record weekly scaffold inspections, whereby a scaffold inspector would repeatedly fill in the same old tagging system onsite and then input the same data on a scaffold register. With SafeTime® this process is eliminated as this is all done at the same time using Near Field Communication (NFC) and cloud technology.
With the aid of the SafeTime® app and using an android tablet or smartphone the scaffold inspector can upload inspections instantly to the SafeTime® web portal. With this transfer of information everybody involved can view inspections in real time.
The device which is fixed to the scaffold structure displays the load class of the scaffold and the number of days until the next inspection. Once the device has run over the seven days since the last inspection a LED will flash alerting the user immediately. Along side this an email will have already been sent to the relevant parties to inform them that the inspections are due and reminder emails will continue to be sent until the scaffold has been inspected.
Feedback from SafeTime® clients has been overwhelmingly positive, David Martin, Project Manager at United House said:
“We have been using the SafeTime Scaffold Inspection Device on our project for the past couple of months with effortless ease. We have engaged our scaffold sub-contractor to use the system and carry out all of the inspections on a weekly basis. It has been incredibly efficient, once an inspection has been undertaken, anyone of my site team can access the SafeTime online portal and see the inspection information immediately in real time. In addition should any of the site team see an element of scaffold that looks unsafe, they can immediately decommission the device; everybody will receive email notification informing them that the scaffold is unsafe and should not be used. I will definitely be using this product on all my future projects.”
For more information on this new product please visit the SafeTime® website.
crap
Jean-Paul
Josh think you might need these..
Simon Turner I like this! Lot of negativity on here but I use my iPad for inspections and it can always be traced. It’s all about the traceability. Must have some strong inspectors on here to carry round those slabs of stone and that chisel!
Tosh Sykes hope your computer skills are up to date lol
Battery operated ) tho not many sites allow this if they did my phone is then aloud on site 🙂
Load of sh.t
@ Lance Yusuf Osman ….pink stuff its trad rented or Artel.
And these won’t get stolen much will they?
Wayne Dunn
Lol worlds gone mad
Richard Challis
They won’t last 5 mins, 1 splash of muck or something and it will be knackered.!
Lance just cos it’s pink didn’t meen it’s trad u melt
yeah lance pity they tied there hanrail off with a single tho…double to double even with handrails big difference between using a fitting 0.3kn to a fitting of 6.1kn
Pink gear…….evry1 goes to trad
This looks neat as hell, but I doubt it will ever catch on over here for a few reasons. The first is our requirement that all scaffolds be checked before every shift starts and the fact that most of our industrial areas forbid electronic devices in the area. It is still nice to see the trade moving forward with the times.
If it’s not broken’ don’t try n fix it
Jamie Stannard lmao
What a waste
GREAT…for the streets and if somebody doesnt nick em…Cost???? suitability for Offshore Scaffolds???…what a feckin waste of money is this really going to make scaffolds safer or stop untrained numptys ripping ties out when they want and scaffolds still collapsing??? i think not………….leave technology in the office and the the hard work done on the sites….
Paul Mc Adam