Scaffold adaptation record. A 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.

An altered scaffold is a new structure. That is the whole point of this record: the inspection it had last week was an inspection of something that no longer exists, and the tag on the access point is now describing a scaffold that is not there.

Most unrecorded alterations are small, reasonable and done by somebody helpful — a tie dropped so a window can go in, a board lifted to get a cable through, a guardrail taken off to land materials. Each is a decision about a structure somebody else designed, and the record is how the person responsible for that structure finds out it was made.

The two lines that close the loop are the tag and the register. An adaptation recorded on a form in a van, with the old tag still on the scaffold and the old date still in the register, has documented the change and told nobody. Both are on the sheet as explicit ticks for that reason.

Where the alteration goes outside the original design, the sheet asks what authorises it rather than offering a box to tick. That is usually a designer's instruction, and if the honest answer is that nothing authorises it, that is a finding worth having in writing.