Background
John Brash is one of the UK’s principal manufacturers of scaffold boards. Our
Scaffold Boards are recognised as the premier board available. We are constantly
improving standards and taking a leading role in developing new British Standard’s,
including the new BS 2482:2009.
Whilst Grade A scaffold boards have accounted for a significant share of the
UK scaffold board market, this is going to change. The industry has always asked
for ‘BS’ tube and ‘BS’ fittings but often settled on a non BS or Grade ‘A’ scaffold
board.
The Grade ‘A’ has often given a good safe performance, but with grading processes
differing from company to company, standards vary. The HSE recognised this and,
in conjunction with the industry, commissioned an extensive research project.
The result is BS 2482:2009. John Brash has always used the machine settings
and visual rules planned for BS 2482:2009 for its Alpha+(TM) grade.
BS 2482:2009 was published in July and takes immediate effect.
New for 2009, John Brash has introduced the JBXtraLifeTM Scaffold Board; this carries a unique 10 year guarantee against both rot and
decay.
Manufacturing:
The company holds a British Standard Kitemark licence for both visual and machine-strength
grading of scaffold boards, which are manufactured within a BS EN ISO 9001:2000
quality assurance system.
John Brash scaffold boards are manufactured from premium European Whitewood sourced
from specially selected sawmills. Although alternative species are permitted within
the British Standard, the timber used by John Brash is considered the most suitable
for scaffold board manufacture.
Long-standing partnerships with leading sawmills enable John Brash to maintain
quality and consistency of supply.
Stocks are held in a range of lengths, thicknesses and grades. Every board is
either machine strength graded or inspected by our own highly trained visual graders.
All our graders are qualified and the company is independently reassessed twice
annually by the BSI
John Brash machine grade scaffold boards wherever possible, as this is the most
reliable method of grading. Each board is passed though a machine which measures
deflection under a prescribed load. The board is tested in the plane that it will
be used. This detects critical defects, such as excessive slope of grain, that
can easily be missed when visually grading.
John Brash are unique in ink jet printing every machine graded board with an
individual lot number. This gives full traceability from the sawmill, through
grading and manufacturing and on to delivery. This gives John Brash full audit
traceability of the board.
Additional scaffold board services include:
- Special grading
- Security branding
- Fixing of personalised end bands or scaff-plates
- Specialised timber preservative treatments
- Fire retardant treatments
- Individual board PEFC labelling
John Brash has over a century of specialist timber knowledge and experience,
and can meet all your scaffold board requirements in terms of quality, quantity
and service.
