CISRS carded crews £10m liability cover 7-day scaff tag inspection

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Scaffold that holds up
to inspection.

On the South Coast since 2008. CISRS carded crews, TG20-compliant design, weekly signed scaff tags. The scaffold is never the expensive part of the job — the delay is. Ours goes up on schedule, stays safe for the duration, and comes down clean.

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Trading since2008

Liability cover£10m

Inspection cycle7 days

Portsmouth Independent scaffold to all elevations

CHAS Elite Constructionline Gold Scaffolding Association CISRS carded TG20:21 compliant Asbestos awareness

The standard

Anyone can put tube in the air. What holds a programme together is the design behind it.

That, the cards in the crew's pockets, and paperwork that stands up when an inspector, an insurer or a principal contractor asks for it — those are the parts we are strict about, and why our scaffolds do not become somebody else's problem halfway through a programme.

A scaffold is a temporary structure, and it is designed like one. Boarded lifts carried around all three elevations at the same height, standards on a set pattern, guardrails and toe boards continuous through every return.

01 — Design

Engineered before it is erected

Standard structures built to TG20:21 compliance. Anything outside it — cantilevers, temporary roofs, extreme height, awkward ground — gets a bespoke CAD design with calculations before a single tube is loaded onto the lorry.

02 — Crew

Carded, trained, and the same faces

CISRS carded scaffolders, from Advanced down to trainee, and every one of them asbestos-awareness trained. Directly employed, not sub-let to whoever is free that week. The team who quote your job are the team who build it.

03 — Handover

Paperwork you can hand to an inspector

RAMS issued before we arrive. Handover certificate on completion. Signed scaff tag on every access point, re-inspected every seven days for as long as the structure stands, with the record sent through to you.

Before we arrive: Risk assessment and method statement issued to you
On completion: Handover certificate and signed scaff tag on every access point
Every seven days: Re-inspection for as long as the structure stands
Permits: Pavement and highway licences applied for on your behalf
Strike: Dismantled to your programme, site left clean

For main contractors and procurement

The paperwork, before you ask for it.

If you are pre-qualifying us, everything you need is on this page rather than three emails away. Below is our capability statement, and specimens of the documents that are issued on every contract — so you can see the standard before you appoint us, not after.

Capability statement

Company details, accreditations with registration numbers, insurance limits, technical capability, competence and safety record — in the format PQQ and procurement teams ask for. Updated annually.

Download PDF 2 pages · A4 Certificate CHAS Elite · membership no. 164406 Valid to 11/02/2027 · PDF Certificate Constructionline Gold · registration no. 1438296 Issued 28/09/2026 · PDF Certificate Scaffolding Association · assessed member no. 26-1208 Valid to 28/09/2027 · PDF Retainer Health and safety advisers · THSS, retained Valid to 02/09/2027 · PDF

A BSL risk assessment and method statement on the dashboard of a site vehicle, with the scaffold visible through the windscreen

Specimen RAMS

Risk assessment and method statement, issued to the principal contractor before any operative attends site. Nine assessed hazards, scored, with the controls and the full erection sequence.

Specimen · PDFDownload

Handover certificate

Issued on completion, before the structure is used. States the design basis, the duty class and the permitted loading — the question an inspector or an insurer asks first.

Specimen · PDFDownload

A BSL scaffolder signing the scaff tag on a completed structure

Signed scaff tag

Fitted at every access point and signed at each inspection. If the tag is missing, out of date or reads do not use, the scaffold is not to be climbed — and that rule applies to us as much as to you.

On the structureEvery 7 days

A tested scaffold tie anchored into brickwork, with its tie tag recording the test value and test date

Tested ties

Ties are pull-out tested on site with a testing kit, and the result is written on the tie tag — test value and date, there for the next inspector to read.

On the structureValue & date

Recent work

Every structure, on the record.

A scaffold is a piece of temporary engineering, so we log it like one. Each job below carries its address, the access solution we specified, and how long it stood.

BSL scaffolders in front of the pavement gantry at Greenwich Court, Southsea

PO5 4EU

Window replacement, ex-military apartment block

Greenwich Court, King Street · Southsea

Structure: Independent
Programme: 10–12 weeks
Works: Window replacement
Building: Ex-military block

BSL scaffold with a boarded lift and gable access across the front of The Owl pub, its gold lettering visible through the mesh guards

IG10 4AL

Full redecoration, live pub

The Owl · Loughton

Structure: Independent
Programme: 4–6 weeks
Works: Full redecoration
Site: Pub trading

Beneath BSL's temporary roof at Great Salterns House: trussed beams and sheeting spanning the slate roof under repair

PO3 6QB

Temporary roof over a listed mansion

Great Salterns, Eastern Road · Portsmouth

Structure: Temporary roof
Programme: 16 weeks
Works: Re-roof & redecoration
Building: Grade II listed

BSL scaffold across the full frontage of The Walton Village pub on Walton-on-Thames High Street, padded standards at pavement level and the pub open beneath

KT12 1DG

High Street frontage, pub kept trading

The Walton Village · Walton-on-Thames

Structure: Independent
Works: Full redecoration
Footway: Kept open beneath
Site: Pub trading

BSL scaffold built up the balcony stack of a block of flats on Thames Street, Oxford, with a safety gate at the working lift

OX1 Scaffold up

The same balcony stack on Thames Street after the works, scaffold struck and the balconies back in use

Handed back

Balcony works to an occupied block

Thames Street · Oxford

Structure: Independent
Works: Balcony works
Building: Occupied flats

Portsmouth The whole elevation, tied and boarded.

Every lift boarded out, guardrails and toe boards the full run, ties to the structure on a set pattern. This is what a scaffold looks like when the design came first.

The crew

Every scaffold on this page was put up by these men.

CISRS carded, directly employed, and the same faces from the quote to the strike. We are not a phone number that sub-lets your job to whoever is free that week.

Ben Carter, BSL supervisor, in helmet and full harness on a completed lift — **Ben Carter**Supervisor · CISRS Advanced Scaffolder

A gloved hand tightening a scaffold fitting with an impact driver — **Every fitting, checked**Torqued and inspected

Three BSL scaffolders in front of a completed pavement gantry — **The team on site**Greenwich Court

Two BSL scaffolders handling tube on a boarded lift — **Two-man lift**Tube passed, never dropped

A BSL scaffolder fixing tube overhead with a second operative behind — **Mid-fix**Advance guardrail first

A BSL scaffolder with both hands on the tube, harness clipped on — **Hands on the tube**Harness clipped, every lift

Directly employed, not sub-let. Dave Carter runs contracts; Ben Carter and Danny Bulter supervise. The men who price your job are the men who build it, and the same supervisor signs the tag every seven days for as long as the structure stands.

Carded and certificated. Two CISRS Advanced scaffolders, six Part 2 and two Part 1, with two trainees coming through. Every operative holds asbestos awareness. Cards produced on request before anyone sets foot on your site.

Capability

What we are asked for, and what we are asked for when it is difficult.

Overhead view of a courtyard with BSL scaffold boarded out around all three elevations — **Three elevations, one structure, boarded out at the same level throughout.**

Where we work

One yard. Our own lorries.

Everything leaves our yard at Soberton, between Portsmouth, Southampton and Winchester, on our own LGVs with our own drivers — across the South Coast and up into the Thames Valley and south London.

Aerial view of the scaffolded block with the Portsmouth skyline and Spinnaker Tower behind

View from a BSL lift over the street with the loaded lorry below

BSL liveried lorry on site with a scaffolder carrying tube

A BSL scaffolder drawing tube from the loaded lorry bed

Yard — Dradfield Lane, Soberton SO32 3QD

Get in touch

Tell us about the structure.

Send photographs and rough measurements and we can price most jobs without a site visit. If we do need to come and look, we will book a time — we never turn up unannounced.

Telephone 0800 978 8705

Email admin@bslscaffoldingltd.com

Yard and office Dradfield Industrial Estate
Dradfield Lane, Soberton
Hampshire SO32 3QD

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