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Jornada Alco de capacitación para el montaje de andamiosAlco day of training for the erection of scaffolding
May 15, 2009
The service of our own prevention, SPP,
Alco organized a day of hands-on training on the layout, mounting and dismounting of tubular scaffold for personnel assigned to the area of Aragon of the Group of renting of machinery and auxiliary means. The training had an eminently practical nature, which were explained in detail all the key aspects: adequate support, initial layout, moorings, closures perimeter and appropriate use of work equipment. The incorporation of life in horizontal lines garnered special attention because it significantly increases the level of security. These lines of life become part of the installation and moving as it progresses the mounting height. In this way gets control the risk of fall in height and improving the Assembly process.
Throughout the day was led by a technician of PRL of Alco and counted with the collaboration of Mapesa, it outsourced specialized in tubular scaffolding mounting, who brought two of its fitters specialists.
The Alco training day focused on the layout, mounting and dismounting of tubular scaffolding.