Prefabricated Access Suppliers and Manufacturers Association
PASMA, the lead industry body for the mobile access tower sector, in collaboration with the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has completed a wide-ranging review of its recommended best practice for the avoidance of falls from height from mobile access towers to support
Tower for users
Mobile access towers are straight up and down, single bay structures with four legs and wheels that can reach heights of 8m outdoors and 12m indoors. These lightweight structures can be assembled and dismantled quickly and easily, with collective fall prevention in place throughout. It’s no wonder they’re a familiar sight in workplaces across the world, used by everyone from facilities managers and signage companies to stonemasons and event organisers.
- Duration: 1 day
- Practical: Yes
- Standards: EN 1004
Large Deck Towers for Users
In need of a wide, continuous working space? With large deck towers you get uninterrupted access! A large deck tower is an arrangement of towers and platforms that have been joined together at their sides and ends. They come together to create a spacious working area that provides access to a whole ceiling, for example for painting or electrical work.
- Duration: 1 day
- Practical: Yes
- Standards: BS 1139-6
Combined Low-Level Access & Towers for Users
If you work with mobile access towers and low level access equipment, you can do both courses at the same time. Ask your training centre for the PASMA Combined Low-Level Access and Towers for Users course, which gives you both qualifications in one day. The combined course covers all the content from Towers for Users as well as everything from Low-Lavel Access. Separately, these courses would take 1.5 days.
- Duration: 1 day
- Practical: Yes
- Standards: EN 1004, 89 8620
Linked Towers for Users
Sometimes one tower just isn’t enough. When you need a bit more space, for example to work on the facade of a building, a linked tower provides that extra platform length you’re looking for. Linked towers-that’s two or more towers joined together-are most often used to span the facade of buildings, so work such as painting, plastering or replacing windows can take place. They provide a long, uninterrupted deck area, which is useful for a whole host of tasks.
- Duration: 1 day
- Practical: Yes
- Standards: BS 1139-6
Low-Level Access
Low level work platforms, often called podiums, pulpits, room scaffolds or podium steps, provide a stable platform for someone carrying out tasks at heights of under 2.5 metres. They’re generally lightweight, easy to manoeuvre, fold away for easy storage or transportation, and have collective fall prevention built in. All too often, people see a simple piece of equipment that only goes a short distance off the ground and think nothing bad could happen.
- Duration: Half day
- Practical: Yes
- Standards: BS 8620
Towers for Managers
Managing people who use scaffold towers is a scary responsibility if you don’t know what good practice looks like. How can you be sure your workers have chosen the right tower, built a stable structure and aren’t going to fall off? To comply with Work at Height Regulations, you must be competent to supervise work on towers. When breaching the regulations can have such big consequences for managers even prison sentences-you’ll want to ensure you’re trained for the task
- Duration: 1 day
- Practical: no
- Standards: : EN 1004, BS 1139-6, BS 8620
Towers on Stairways for Users
Stepped towers, stairway access towers, towers on stairs… they’ve got many names but they all do the same thing and there’s no prize for guessing what it is. Of course, it’s a tower designed to be used on a stairway, a spot where access is often tricky. In fact, they can be used in other places where the ends of the tower will be at different heights too.
- Duration: 1 day
- Practical: Yes
- Standards: BS 1139-6
Towers with Bridges for Users
What if you need more platform space, but there’s an obstacle or access route at ground level? In this situation, you’re looking for a tower with a bridge that’s two or more towers joined together at their end or side. Towers with bridges provide a long, uninterrupted platform area while leaving clear space at ground level.
- Duration: 1 day
- Practical: Yes
- Standards: BS 1139-6
Cantilever Towers for Users
Something in your way? A cantilever tower is ideal for overcoming obstacles, like stairwells, window apertures, riser shafts or porches, getting you closer to the area you need to reach. These towers have a platform sticking out the side or end. This helps you work over obstructions, making it useful for a whole host of tasks.
- Duration: 1 day
- Practical: Yes
- Standards: BS 1139-6
Work at Height (Novice)
Is working at height all new to you? Have you changed job and suddenly you’re supposed to know what equipment is available, what inspections need done and how to keep yourself and others safe? This course won’t teach you everything you need to know you’d need longer than half a day for that! – but we promise you’ll go home with a clear understanding of your responsibilities and an action plan for what you need to do next.
- Duration: Half a day
- Practical: No
Work at Height (Novice)
Is working at height all new to you? Have you changed job and suddenly you’re supposed to know what equipment is available, what inspections need done and how to keep yourself and others safe? This course won’t teach you everything you need to know you’d need longer than half a day for that! – but we promise you’ll go home with a clear understanding of your responsibilities and an action plan for what you need to do next.
- Duration: Half a day
- Practical: No
