Scaffold Safety Tags

Milscreen™ scaffolding tags let anybody approaching a structure read its status from the ground without finding the supervisor first. The standard tags carry two states: a red NOT SAFE FOR USE, and a green OK with SCAFFOLD SAFE TO USE.

The holder and insert system. Most scaffold tagging works as a holder that stays on the structure with a card inside it that gets replaced. The holder shows the status and the load information; the insert records the history. A typical insert carries the scaffold location, the date of erection, the date of inspection, the name of the scaffold supervisor, and a grid of checking dates with a signature against each one, so the record travels with the structure rather than living in a folder in the site office.

What is printed on the face. Alongside the status, the tag carries the limits the structure is signed off to: maximum materials or tool weight per bay, maximum persons per bay, the scaffold number and the supervisor. Those figures come from your inspection, not from us, and are printed to whatever your scheme specifies.

Colours. Red and green are the two states on the standard tags. Yellow is printed where a site's scheme uses a third state, and what it signifies is set by that scheme rather than by us: some use it for a scaffold that is incomplete or under alteration, others for one that is serviceable with a restriction the user has to read. Tell us which system you work to and we print to it.

Sizes and materials. A common size is 212 mm by 88 mm with a 60 mm hanging hole, sized to drop over a tube, and other sizes are made to order. Tags are produced in PVC, and in laminated and un-laminated finishes: laminated survives rain and handling on an exposed structure, un-laminated is the cheaper choice for short jobs and for tags written on and replaced at each inspection.

Custom scaffold tagging. Custom designs carry project-specific information: the contractor, the project number, the permitted load, the inspection interval, or a company-specific scaffold procedure. Sequential numbering lets each scaffold on a site be identified individually, which is what makes a scaffold register usable when somebody walks the site to verify it against the paperwork.

Scaffolding tags are one part of a site inspection regime; for ladders, harnesses, lifting gear and fire equipment see our inspection and maintenance tags, which use the same write-on fields and colour-coded annual sets.

Where you need a notice about the work rather than the status of one structure, such as an incomplete scaffold or restricted access warning fixed to the hoarding, that is site safety signage. Supplied to contractors and facilities managers across Singapore.