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If SafeWork NSW tags your scaffold as non-compliant and the scaffolder who built it has walked off the job, your site effectively stops. Nobody can legally work off that scaffold until a licensed scaffolder inspects it, fixes what's wrong, and re-certifies it — and in almost every case, that bill lands on you, the builder or the owner. Not the bloke who put it up wrong and disappeared. You. We get called to these jobs constantly. A builder rings us, half-panicked, because the

If you've had a SafeWork NSW inspector turn up on your site this year, you're not alone. I've seen more scaffold inspections in the last twelve months than in any year I can remember. For a lot of builders that's a source of stress. For me, it's been one of the most useful things to happen to my business — and I want to explain why. I run The Scaffold Company. I design, erect, hire and dismantle scaffold across Sydney and the Central Coast, with work down in Melbourne as well