# Guide to Suspended (Swing Stage) Scaffolds

> This Guide provides information on the potential hazards for suspended (swing stage) scaffolds and provides practical examples of ways you can control the risks associated with them.

- URL: https://essential.construction/files/information/guides/guide-to-suspended-swing-stage-scaffolds/
- Publisher: Essential Construction (https://essential.construction/)
- Last updated: 2022-09-30
- Price: Free download
- Categories: Project Planning, Safety, Guides
- Division: 01 - General, 02 - Siteworks, 03 - Concrete, 04 - Masonry
- File Type: Document
- Region: Oceanic

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This Guide provides information on the potential hazards for suspended (swing stage) scaffolds and provides practical examples of ways you can control the risks associated with them.

This Guide provides information on the potential hazards for suspended (swing stage) scaffolds and provides practical examples of ways you can control the risks associated with them.

It is part of a series of guidance material and should be read and used together with the *General guide for* *Scaffolds and scaffolding work* which includes information on risk management as well as advice on planning, erecting, altering, dismantling and working with scaffolds and the following material:

- *Guide to scaffolds and scaffolding*
- *Guide to scaffold inspection and maintenance*, and
- *Information Sheet: Tower and mobile scaffolds**.*

Further information for scaffolding work near overhead electric lines is also available in the Information Sheet: *Scaffolding work near overhead electric lines*.