Permit to load record. A printable permit for loading materials onto a scaffold or a loading bay — what is going on, where, whether the design allows it, and who authorised it.
This records a loading decision; it does not make one. What a bay or a lift may carry comes from the TG20 compliance sheet or the bespoke design for that structure, and neither this sheet nor ScaffoldOptix works it out for you — what the platform does is keep the design, the handover and the permit against the same scaffold so the person authorising it is looking at the right document.
What is on the sheet
- Scaffold reference, the bay or lift concerned, and the date the permit runs for
- What is being loaded, and roughly how much, in the applicant's own words
- What the design or compliance sheet says that bay may carry, written in from the document rather than printed here
- Confirmation that the person authorising it has checked the loading against that document
- Conditions: distribution, stacking, how long it may stay, and what must not happen at the same time
- Authorisation and cancellation, so a permit that has been handed back is visibly closed
Why this record matters
Scaffolds are overloaded by people who have no idea they are overloading them. A pallet of blocks looks like a reasonable thing to put on a boarded lift, and whether it is depends entirely on what that structure was designed to carry and how the weight is spread.
The permit exists to put one competent person between the material and the scaffold. It is not a calculation and it does not pretend to be: the figures come off the compliance sheet or the design, and the permit is the record that somebody looked them up before saying yes.
The condition people skip is duration. Material loaded for an afternoon and left for three weeks is a different loading case, especially once the weather turns, and a permit with no end date is an open invitation to leave it there. The sheet asks for a date it expires and a signature that it was cleared.
This is tiered as a soft download deliberately. Deciding what a structure may carry is design work, and the permit only records a decision somebody competent has already made.
Use it with
- Scaffold design briefA printable design brief for commissioning a scaffold design — the information a designer needs before they can design anything, gathered once rather than over a fortnight of phone calls.
- Scaffold handover certificateA printable handover certificate for passing a completed scaffold to the client — what was erected, what it may be used for, what it was designed to, and who is accepting it.
- Scaffold adaptation recordA printable record of an alteration to a scaffold — what changed, who authorised it, who did it, and the inspection that has to happen before it is used again.
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