Prepare for the shift ahead.
A five-prompt preparation checklist that scaffolders and other trades can use alongside their site briefing. It is a crew conversation, not an exercise routine or a fitness test.
Before your next shift
Five prompts to run through with the crew alongside the site briefing. Scaffolders and other trades can use them before the first lift.
- 01
The task
Know today's task, agreed method and who to ask if it changes.
- 02
The handling
Discuss how materials will reach the work area and use planned handling aids; avoid unnecessary carrying.
- 03
The conditions
Check access, working space and changing conditions with your supervisor.
- 04
Speaking up
Raise fatigue, discomfort or any concern that could affect safe work; don’t record private health details in a shared briefing.
- 05
The action
Agree the action, responsible person and when the crew will check back.
A prompt for discussion alongside your site-specific risk assessment and briefing; it does not authorise work or replace training and supervision.
Further guidance
- HSE: manual handling in construction ↗Risk controls for handling materials on site.
- HSA: safety and health management systems ↗How health and safety is managed and reviewed.
This checklist does not ask you to enter or submit personal information. Risk controls come before any individual wellbeing activity.
Optional supervisor follow-through: crew conversation and action sheet.
Risk controls come before any individual wellbeing activity. If a task cannot be done safely, it is the work that changes, not the person.
Always carrying on the same side?
Think about how a load is carried, not just how much. First consider whether the handling can be avoided. Where it cannot, use the task-specific assessment and planned controls, including suitable handling aids; this illustration is not a diagnosis or a lifting instruction.
The longer exercise plans are not published yet.
Video walkthroughs and printable routines are being produced. No video, poster or download is offered here until the file exists and has been checked, so there are no outline-only routines presented as usable.
