Last week was National Scaffolding Week (NSW), a brand new campaign to celebrate the scaffolding and access sectors' many achievements and promote the diverse range of roles and opportunities available within the industry.
To help raise awareness of the campaign, National Scaffolding Week teamed up with TRAD UK to run a ‘fastest fixer’ competition which was held at various TRAD UK depots across the UK.
Each location fixed a vertical 6-foot tube and challenged employees to fit 12 D/F doubles onto the tube as fast and as safely as they could. TRAD UK provided the same scaffold spanner and fittings for use at each location to ensure everyone was competing like for like.
The criteria set for the competition was as follows:
Unfortunately due to weather conditions and some unforeseen circumstances, some of the depots were unable to take part, so instead of crowning regional winners, all competitors were entered into one nationwide competition and the top four have been named as:
Sam Tootle 1m 12s - Stockport (WINNER)
Gary 1m 13s - Stockport (JOINT SECOND PLACE)
Paul Crook 1m 13s - Stockport (JOINT SECOND PLACE)
Paul Rothero 1m 13s - Birmingham (JOINT SECOND PLACE)
Congratulations to Sam Tootle and our runners-up - impressive times all round! National Scaffolding Week will organise an award to be presented to Sam Tootle, officially naming him the ‘UK’s Fastest Fixer 2022‘! In the meantime, get practising those fittings and we’ll see you all in 2023!
Contact:
NSW
info@nationalscaffoldingweek.com
TRAD https://traduk.co.uk/the-company/
National Scaffolding Week™ is owned and operated by The Scaffolding Association.
Email - info@nationalscaffoldingweek.com