Section 248 in The Rajasthan Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 2009
248. Safety devices for suspended scaffold.
- The employer shall ensure at a construction site of a building or other construction work that every suspended scaffold, raised or lowered by the winches or climbers, is provided at each of its suspension point with a safety rope with automatic safety device mounted on each of such rope so the that such safety rope with seen automatic safety device supports the platform of such scaffold in the event of failure of the primary suspension wire ropes, winches, climbers or any part or the mechanism used fro raising or lowering such suspended scaffold:Provided that this rule shall not apply-(a)where the platform of such scaffold is supported with two independent suspension wire ropes at or near such each end of such platform so that in the event of failure of one of such suspension wire rope, the other wire rope is capable of sustaining the weights of such platform and its load and prevent it from tilting; or(b)where a system is incorporated which operates automatically to support the platform of such scaffold and its loan in the event of failure of the primary suspension wire rope of such scaffold.Chapter - XXV Cofferdams and Caissons
