MORE than 60 notices have been handed out in the Hunter and Central Coast as part of a scaffold audit of building and construction sites since April.
SafeWork NSW said they had made 56 inspections in the region in recent months as part of the Scaf Safe visits.
"During these visits, SafeWork NSW issued over 60 notices to stop or improve work systems, including seven prohibition notices related to a falls from height risk, 11 prohibition and improvement notices related directly to scaffold on site [and] 15 notices related to electrical safety," a spokesman said.
Across the state the scaffold blitz found 44 per cent of scaffolds surveyed across 7000 construction sites statewide had missing parts.
Minister for Better Regulation and Innovation Kevin Anderson said it was "clear that more needs to be done to get the safety message through to people".
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