Singapore legislation
Regulation 33
Regulation 33
Spigots, jointpins or sleeves
Subregulation 1
It shall be the duty of the responsible person to ensure that the requirements of paragraphs (2) to (6) are complied with.
Subregulation 2
Spigots, jointpins or sleeves shall be used to connect one standard of a metal scaffold in a workplace to another standard.
Subregulation 3
Where spigots, jointpins or sleeves are used to locate and connect one standard to another, such spigots, jointpins or sleeves shall —
permit full bearing over the whole bearing area at the ends of the standards; and
have such external or internal dimensions that the maximum difference of mating diameters in any part between the spigot, jointpin or sleeve and the other standard does not exceed 1.6 millimetres.
Subregulation 4
Spigots and jointpins shall engage in the ends of the standards by at least 70 millimetres.
Subregulation 5
Sleeves shall cover the end of the standard by at least 70 millimetres.
Subregulation 6
The standards shall be securely held if they are connected by the spigots, jointpins or sleeves.