PASMA
Standard Course Mobile Access Tower Operator Training
For anyone in your organisation who use, erect, move and dismantle
Alloy or Fibreglass Mobile Access Towers. All delegates must
be at least 18 years of age.
The
New Working at Height Regulations 2005 and the Construction
(Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1996, require that
the installation or erection of Mobile Access Scaffold Towers
should only be carried out by, or under the supervision of,
a competent person. Such a person is someone considered to
have the training, technical knowledge or experience as may
be appropriate having regard to the nature of the activity.
PASMA therefore sponsors training courses provided only by
authorised registered training members.
The
training course is based on a format and content agreed by
all PASMA members and draws upon their collective, first-hand
experience. Widely recognised and recommended by safety professionals,
it provides successful delegates who pass a written and practical
test with a competency certificate and a photo ID card. The
training provider’s PASMA Course content, instructors
and
training premises are subject to a rigorous assessment to
ensure compliance with PASMA standards. After approval, all
Registered Training Centres are subject to an ongoing audit
regime conducted by the Training Scheme Auditor to ensure
that they continue to meet the high standards demanded by
PASMA.
Aims
Each
of the person attending the course will be able to, on completion,
safely and correctly identify, erect, tie in, use, move, inspect
and dismantle prefabricated Aluminium and Fibre-Glass Access
Towers in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions,
current
regulations and accepted approved methods. They will gain
an understanding of current relevant legislation and regulations
on
mobile access towers
Course
Content
•
Introduction to Mobile Scaffold Towers
• Documentation - Details of Documents, Reports, PASMA
Booklets and Manufacturer's Instruction Manuals
• Regulations, Health & Safety inc new Working at
Height Regulations 2005
• Identifying Tower Types and Components
• Accident Awareness & Prevention
• Inspection of a Tower and Components
• On Site Risk Assessment
• Safe & Correct Methods of Erection and Dismantling
- Using the 3T Method
• Safe Access and Egress To and From Mobile Towers
• Tower Stability
• Tying In
• Moving a Tower
• General Safe Use and Awareness
• Hazards and Dangers
• Written Test
• Practical Assessment (Max 4 Delegates to build and
dismantle a 4.2m Double width Tower Safely using the 3T Method
Certification
Upon
successfully passing the written and practical assessment
at the end of the course, each person's details will be entered
on to the PASMA central database and a certificate of competency
, a Photo-ID Card, a Course Notes Booklet, an access inspection
checklist,the relevant manufacturer's assembly guide and an
Operator's Code Of Practice Booklet will be issued. |
