These are the Scaffolding Essentials Standards.
The Scaffolding Essentials Set offers comprehensive guidance for the Australian scaffolding industry.
The set is for manufacturers, importers, installers, and maintenance professionals.
This set includes critical standards for the safe training, erection, maintenance, and dismantling, of scaffolding systems. It also addresses fixed platforms, walkways, stairways, and ladders.
For users of older equipment, the set includes provisions to demonstrate compliance with AS/NZS 1576.1.
These standards are widely referenced in Federal and State regulations, ensuring industry alignment with safety and legal requirements.
Available in the Scaffolding Essentials set.
| Name | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| AS/NZS 1576.1:2019 Scaffolding, Part 1: General requirements | Current Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand |
Sets out design and operational requirements for scaffolding systems, scaffolding equipment and scaffolds. It includes specifications for catch platforms erected on scaffolds and covers temporary stairways for use on a general construction site. |
| AS/NZS 1576.2:2016 Scaffolding, Part 2: Couplers and accessories | Current Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand |
Specifies requirements for couplers and accessories for scaffolding complying with AS/NZS1576.3 and AS/NZS1576.6. |
| AS/NZS 1576.4:2013 Scaffolding, Part 4: Suspended scaffolding | Current Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand |
Provides manufacturers and suppliers of suspended scaffolds and accessories with requirements to ensure the proper operation of suspended scaffolds. |
| AS 1576.5:2021 Scaffolding, Part 5: Prefabricated trestle and trestle ladder scaffolds | Current Standards Australia |
AS 1576.5 specifies requirements the design and operational performance for trestle scaffolds and trestle ladder scaffolds. |
| AS 1576.6:2020 Scaffolding, Part 6: Metal tube-and-coupler scaffolding - Deemed to conform to AS/NZS 1576.1 | Current Standards Australia |
The objective of this Standard is to provide tabulated geometrical limits and guidance which, when applied to tube and coupler installations, would ensure conformance to requirements of AS/NZS 1576.1. |
| AS 1576.7 (Int):2021 Scaffolding, Part 7: Safe use of encapsulation on scaffolding | Current Standards Australia |
Specifies requirements and test methods for encapsulation and containment products for attachment to scaffolding, including fire hazard properties, strength properties, fixing requirements and installation procedures for various types of encapsulation. |
| AS 1657:2018 Fixed platforms, walkways, stairways and ladders - Design, construction and installation | Current Standards Australia |
Sets out requirements for the design, selection, construction and installation of fixed platforms, walkways, stairways and ladders that are intended to provide safe access to places used by operating, inspection, maintenance and servicing personnel. |
| AS 4576:2020 Guidelines for scaffolding | Current Standards Australia |
Gives practical guidance for training, the preparation of sites for scaffolding, and the safe selection, supply, erection, alteration, dismantling, maintenance, inspection and use of scaffolding and scaffolding equipment (companion to the AS(/NZS) 1576 series. |
| AS/NZS 4994.1:2023 Temporary edge protection, Part 1: General requirements | Current Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand |
AS/NZS 4994.1:2023 specifies requirements for the design, manufacture, installation and testing of temporary edge protection equipment used on roofs having slopes not greater than 35° to the horizontal and for other exposed edges, prior to the installation of the permanent walling materials. |
| AS/NZS 4994.2:2023 Temporary edge protection, Part 2: Roof edge protection - Installation and dismantling | Current Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand |
AS/NZS 4994.2:2023 specifies requirements and give guidance for the selection, installation, use and dismantling of roof edge protection conforming to AS/NZS 4994.1. It covers temporary roof edge protection for persons working on roofs of buildings having roof slopes of not greater than 35° to the horizontal |
| AS/NZS 4994.3:2023 Temporary edge protection, Part 3: Installation and dismantling for edges other than roof edges | Current Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand |
AS/NZS 4994.3:2023 specifies requirements and gives guidance for the selection and installation of edge protection conforming to AS/NZS 4994.1, for persons working near an opening in a floor, or near a platform edge or floor edge prior to the installation of the permanent walling materials. |
| AS/NZS 4994.4:2018 Temporary edge protection, Part 4: Perimeter Protection Screens | Current Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand |
Sets out the requirements for the design, manufacture, installation,re-positioning and dismantling of perimeter protection screens, of height 1 m and above, that are to be attached to formwork or to a permanent structure to provide edge protection for personnel and minimise falling objects during construction. |