[ Scaffolding ]
SCAFFOLDING IS EQUIPMENT, CREWS, AND COMPLIANCE. TRACK ALL THREE.
Erection. Inspection. Modification. Dismantling. Your scaffolding operation moves tons of equipment between job sites, dispatches crews who work at dangerous heights, and must document safety compliance on every structure. OPS keeps your equipment tracked, your crews scheduled, and your safety records where they belong.
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[ THE PROBLEM ]
EQUIPMENT SCATTERED ACROSS A DOZEN SITES.
- • Scaffolding components — frames, braces, planks, base plates, casters, guardrails — are distributed across 5-15 active job sites at any given time. Knowing what is where, what is available, and what needs to move is a full-time inventory problem.
- • Equipment goes out on rental and needs to come back. But tracking rental duration, billing, and pickup scheduling across dozens of rentals in a spreadsheet means equipment sits on sites longer than it should — costing you and frustrating the customer.
- • Loss and damage on scaffolding components is an accepted cost of business — but only because nobody tracks it. Without component-level tracking, you do not know where the loss is happening until the annual inventory count reveals the gap.
- • Equipment transport — flatbed trucks, loading, unloading — is a significant cost. Moving equipment between sites efficiently requires knowing what is at each site and what the next site needs. Without that data, you move equipment twice.
For scaffolding company owners and inventory managers
SAFETY COMPLIANCE THAT PROTECTS YOUR PEOPLE AND YOUR LICENSE.
- • OSHA 1926.451 requires competent person inspections before every shift for occupied scaffolds. That is a daily inspection on every active scaffold. Paper inspection forms from 15 job sites create a paper mountain nobody can manage.
- • Scaffold tagging — green tag (safe), yellow tag (caution), red tag (unsafe) — must be documented and communicated to every trade working on or around the scaffold. If the tag status changes and the crew on the third level does not know, you have a life-safety incident.
- • Modification and dismantling require specific documentation — engineered drawings, competent person approval, notification to affected trades. Paper documentation for modifications gets lost between the office and the field.
- • When OSHA shows up for a site inspection, your scaffold safety records need to be produced immediately. "Let me check the filing cabinet at the office" is not an acceptable answer.
For safety officers and site supervisors
CREWS AT HEIGHT WITH DANGEROUS WORK AND NO SYSTEM.
- • Scaffolding erection and dismantling are among the most dangerous activities in construction. Your crew needs to know the scope, the engineered plan, the safety requirements, and the site conditions before they start — not while they are 40 feet up.
- • Different job sites have different scaffolding configurations — supported, suspended, mobile, cantilever. Your crew needs the specifications for each site on their phone, not in a binder at the office.
- • Weather conditions directly affect scaffold safety. High winds, ice, and lightning shut down scaffold work. When conditions change mid-day, every crew on every scaffold needs to know. Phone calls to 15 sites are not fast enough.
- • New crew members need to understand the scaffold plan before climbing. Without digital access to the plan, the foreman is the only source of truth — and the foreman is also setting up the next section.
For scaffolding crews and erection foremen
[ THE SOLUTION ]
HOW OPS HANDLES IT
[ 01 ]
EVERY COMPONENT. EVERY SITE. TRACKED.
OPS tracks your scaffolding inventory by job site — frames, braces, planks, guardrails, everything. When a new job needs 200 frames and you have 150 at Site A finishing this week, you know where the equipment is coming from before booking the transport. Rental durations tracked. Pickups scheduled. No more equipment sitting on sites you forgot about.
[ 02 ]
SAFETY INSPECTIONS DOCUMENTED FROM THE SCAFFOLD.
Daily competent person inspections captured in OPS from the job site — findings, tag status, photos, deficiencies. Every scaffold on every site has a documented safety record. When OSHA arrives, pull up the inspection history in seconds. Not in a filing cabinet search. On your phone.
[ 03 ]
SCAFFOLD PLANS ON YOUR CREW'S PHONE. NOT IN THE OFFICE.
Engineered drawings, scope specifications, safety requirements, and site access details — on every crew member's phone before they start climbing. 56dp touch targets for gloved hands. Dark theme visible in direct sunlight. Offline mode for sites where signal does not reach the upper levels. Your crew knows the plan. Not just the foreman.
[ 04 ]
ERECTION. INSPECTION. MODIFICATION. DISMANTLING. ONE APP.
New scaffold erection, daily inspections, mid-project modifications, and final dismantling — every phase of scaffold work in one schedule. Your office tracks the equipment. Your safety officer tracks inspections. Your foreman sees the daily plan. All from one system.
[ VS THE ALTERNATIVES ]
SEE HOW OPS COMPARES
| Feature | OPS | Procore | Jobber |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free to start, $79/mo flat | Custom pricing, $$$ | $49-$199/mo, feature-gated |
| Equipment/inventory tracking | Components tracked by site | Equipment management for enterprise | No equipment tracking |
| Safety documentation | Daily inspections, tag status, photos | Safety forms available | No safety-specific features |
| Offline mode | Full offline — works on upper scaffold levels | Requires connectivity | Limited offline |
| Crew app simplicity | Glove-ready, dark theme, scaffold plans on phone | Enterprise complexity | Service-call oriented |
| Time to start | Download and go, same day | Multi-month implementation | Setup + plan selection |
[ FREQUENTLY ASKED ]
SCAFFOLDING IS EQUIPMENT, CREWS, AND COMPLIANCE. MANAGE ALL THREE FROM ONE APP.
Equipment tracking. Safety documentation. Scaffold plans on every phone. One app for erection, inspection, and dismantling. Free to start — no demo, no contract.
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