PASMA Towers for Users - Learn to work safely with towers

What's covered?

Through a combination of theory and practical work, you will learn about:

• Work at height responsibilities of employers, employees and suppliers

• Standards affecting the manufacture and use of mobile access towers

• Where to find crucial safety information

• When it’s safe to use a mobile access tower, and when it’s not

• Carrying out pre-use checks and post-assembly inspections on mobile access towers

• Assembling and dismantling a mobile access tower using approved methods 

• Good practices for the safe use of mobile access towers

• Accessing a platform safely

• Moving a mobile access tower

• The components used in a mobile access tower

• Identifying hazards in the work environment

• Avoiding personal health hazards

Candidates must pass the theory test before undertaking the practical element of the course.

Companies who are CITB registered and meet their grant scheme eligibility requirements may be able to claim for a short course duration grant. Please contact us for further information

PASMA Mobile App

Available to download for free, the PASMA mobile App provides a huge range of practical information that can be used on a day-to-day basis to support safety, enhance competency and speed and simplify the whole process of information gathering.

Reflecting the recognised needs of the tower community, the PASMA App offers communication without limits. Using the App you get:

• Invaluable access to manufacturers’ instruction manuals.
• The chance to check for information in the PASMA Code of Practice.
• An easy and fast route to finding PASMA training centres and hirers.
• The opportunity to keep on top of the latest news and developments; The ability to upload tower images.
• The PASMA mobile App is already being heralded as a landmark development in the mobile access tower sector. It’s an example of the Association embracing the latest technology to deliver the help users need when it’s needed most – instantly, on site, at the touch of a screen.

Download

→ For Android click here

→ For iOS click here

On successfully completing the theory and practical segments of the course, you’ll receive a PASMA  Certificate.it  will open doors to jobs in all sorts of industries, so be sure to highlight it to employers.

A printed card is available as an optional extra so when booking please choose this option with our online booking system or speak to our training department who will advise on cost. 

Is this the right course for me?

This course is suitable for anyone who will be using mobile access towers at home or at work, including:

• Those who have never used towers before

• Those who already use towers but have never been formally trained

• Those re-taking the course after an earlier qualification expires

It’s designed for operatives. If you manage or supervise operatives, look at Towers for Managers instead

No formal qualifications or experience are necessary, but it would be beneficial if candidates had a basic understanding of work at height issues.This course is suitable for all candidates who are responsible for the assembly, use, dismantling, alteration, moving and inspecting of mobile access towers.Since the safe use of mobile access towers requires that you consult safety notices and read and thoroughly understand the manufacturer’s instruction manual, literacy and language comprehension are important requirements for any tower user.Similarly, since the assembly and use of mobile access towers can be physically demanding, users should be physically fit and in good health, and should generally, not have problems with eyesight or hearing, heart disease, high blood pressure, epilepsy, fear of heights, vertigo, giddiness, difficulty with balance, impaired limb function, alcohol or drug dependence, including prescribed drugs or psychiatric illness

If you also work with low level access equipment, this course can be done at the same time as Low-Level Access. By doing the combined course, you get both qualifications in one day!

Course details

• Aimed at: Users
• Duration: 1 day
• PPE: suitable head/foot protection and gloves
• Maximum class size: 12
• Qualification length: 5 years
• e-Learning available
• Remote training available
• On-site training available
• Course syllabus: download

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