Scaffold Health & Safety Manager

The Scaffold Health & Safety Manager is the company's subject matter expert and competent person for scaffolding, access systems, and associated temporary works activities.

The role is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining Lawtech's scaffolding governance framework across all projects. This includes providing technical leadership, managing scaffolding assurance processes, developing company procedures, overseeing scaffold contractor performance, and ensuring compliance with all applicable legislation, standards, and client requirements.

The postholder shall work closely with Project Teams, Temporary Works Coordinators, Scaffold Designers, Principal Designers, Clients, and the supply chain to ensure scaffolding activities are effectively planned, managed and monitored throughout the project lifecycle.

The role supports Lawtech's duties as Principal Contractor under CDM 2015 and provides strategic leadership in the management of scaffolding risks across the business.

• Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
• Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015
• Work at Height Regulations 2005
• Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
• Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998
• Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998
• Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005
• Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005
• BS 5975 Temporary Works Procedures
• NASC TG20 Compliance Guidance
• NASC SG4 Preventing Falls in Scaffolding Operations
• Building Safety Act 2022
• Relevant HSE Guidance and Approved Codes of Practice

The Scaffold Health & Safety Manager is authorised to:

Collaborate with:
Strategic Leadership

• Develop and maintain Lawtech's Scaffolding and Access Management Policy.
• Lead the continual improvement of scaffolding standards across the business.
• Establish scaffolding governance arrangements in line with legal requirements and industry best practice.
• Act as the company's technical authority for scaffolding and temporary access systems.
• Develop annual improvement plans, objectives and targets for scaffolding safety performance.
• Provide regular performance reports to the Head of Health & Safety and Executive Leadership Team.

• Establish and manage the company's scaffolding assurance programme.
• Undertake strategic inspections and audits across all projects.
• Lead investigations into significant scaffold-related incidents, dangerous occurrences and near misses.
• Monitor scaffold compliance trends and identify recurring issues.
• Lead corrective action programmes arising from audits, incidents and inspections.
• Ensure scaffold inspection regimes comply with Work at Height Regulations 2005.
• Develop and implement scaffold management procedures and standards.

• Support implementation of BS 5975 Temporary Works Procedures.
• Work closely with Temporary Works Coordinators and Temporary Works Supervisors across all projects.
• Review scaffold-related temporary works documentation.
• Participate in design reviews and constructability workshops.
• Ensure scaffold-related temporary works risks are identified and controlled during project planning.
• Verify that scaffold designs are reviewed by competent designers and subjected to appropriate design checks.

• Lead scaffold contractor prequalification assessments.
• Establish scaffold contractor performance monitoring processes.
• Monitor supply chain competence and ongoing compliance.
• Undertake formal audits of scaffold contractors.
• Participate in contractor selection and procurement activities.
• Develop preferred scaffold contractor frameworks.
• Escalate poor contractor performance where necessary.

• Lead the management of occupational health risks associated with scaffolding activities.
• Ensure suitable arrangements exist for assessing:
• Noise exposure
• Hand-arm vibration
• Whole-body vibration
• Dust and silica exposure
• Manual handling
• Respiratory hazards
• Skin exposure and dermatitis risks
• Monitor emerging occupational health risks and industry developments.

• Support projects operating within occupied residential environments and Higher-Risk Buildings.
• Review arrangements for resident protection and public safety.
• Verify suitable measures are implemented for:
• Scaffold security
• Anti-climb controls
• Public interface management
• Resident…