You've thought of it many times: I'd like to work as a scaffold designer.

But many questions come to your mind:

• How do I do it?

• Must I go to university?

• Will I get a pay cut at the start?

• How do I learn to use Autocad?

Several scaffolders turned designers share their experience: Tony Nicolaisen, Thomas Riding, Paul Hurst, Ben King and others.

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Every now and then, a new scaffold product comes to market.

What are the steps from idea to product to selling?

This episode will interest all of you who:

• Are designing a new coupler

• Have invented a tool to erect scaffolds faster

• Are lost between design patents and utility patents

• Don't know how to start

Phil Smith, Paul Corfield, Mark Parkin and Alexander Schäferling share their experiences bringing new scaffolding products to the market.

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What's the CISRS scaffold training scheme today?

How was training 50 years ago?

What did work well back then? What didn't?

What does work today? What could be improved?

Isaac Morrison, Phil Smith, Alan Osborn and Ian Corfield share their experiences and suggestions to improve scaffold training and attract more people into the industry.

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27% of all work-related illnesses in UK construction are caused by stress, anxiety and depression.

35% of workers have noticed colleagues under the influence of drugs and alcohol at work.

The construction industry suicide rate is 4 times greater than the national average in the US and the UK.

Isaac Morrison, Phil Smith, Paul Dean and Ian Hines share their experiences with mental health, addiction and suicide, and how they've overcome them.

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There have been too many scaffold collapses in 2023: USA, Italy, the UK, Brazil...

We discuss what may cause a scaffold collapse (e.g., overloading), and how to avoid them.

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