OSHA 29 CFR 1926.451 requires a competent person to inspect scaffolds before each shift and oversee erection and dismantling. While OSHA doesn't set a formal expiry date, the employer must verify ongoing competency. Most training providers recommend refresher training every 3-4 years. ExpirVault helps you prove your scaffold team stays qualified.
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Scaffolding is the third most-cited OSHA standard. Without documented competent person qualifications, you're exposed on every project that involves scaffold work.
If OSHA inspects your site and you can't demonstrate that a competent person supervised scaffold erection, use, or dismantling, you're cited under 1926.451. Scaffolding consistently ranks in OSHA's Top 10 most-cited standards, with thousands of citations issued annually.
Scaffold collapses cause roughly 4,500 injuries and 60 deaths annually in the US. After an incident, OSHA investigators and plaintiff attorneys will demand training documentation for the competent person who inspected the scaffold. Undocumented or outdated training dramatically increases your legal exposure.
General contractors on large commercial and institutional projects require scaffold subcontractors to provide competent person documentation before granting site access. Without current training certificates on file, your crew doesn't get past the gate -- and the schedule starts slipping.
OSHA doesn't set a hard expiry, but most safety training providers and GCs expect refresher training every 3-4 years. Set your own retraining interval for each worker and ExpirVault reminds you when it's time to schedule a competent person refresher course.
Upload scaffold competent person training certificates, competency evaluation forms, and refresher course records. When a GC, OSHA inspector, or insurance auditor asks for documentation, pull up the complete training history for any crew member instantly.
See at a glance which crew members are qualified as scaffold competent persons, when they were last trained, and when refresher training is recommended. Before assigning a scaffold job, verify you have a documented competent person available for the project.
ExpirVault tracks scaffold competent person training and reminds you when refresher training is due -- so you can prove competency when it matters most.
Free for up to 10 employees. No credit card required.