We have two upcoming dates for our PASMA Towers for Users This is PASMA’s flagship course which is aimed at personnel who will be responsible for assembling, dismantling, moving and inspecting mobile access towers when using 3T or Advance Guardrail (AGR) systems This...
How to Check a PASMA Card and Download Your Certificate PASMA has moved to digital certificates. If you hold a PASMA card you can download a copy of your training certificate yourself, from the PASMA website, using their Check a Card tool. How to check a PASMA card Go...
As restrictions start to ease across the UK, PASMA training remains safe to do and widely available. If cards have lapsed over lockdown or new workers are using scaffold towers without one, now is the time to book them on a course. As we strive for normality, tower...
EN1004 -1:2020 Changes - What You Need To Know What is EN1004? EN1004 is a European standard for mobile access scaffold towers and it’s recommended that all mobile towers are built to the standard laid out in this specification. A product standard like EN1004...
We were saddened to learn about the injuries sustained by two workers who fell from an incorrectly assembled tower scaffold while installing signage at a retail premises in Prestwich. They both suffered fractures to their legs and ankles. The accident, which happened...
PASMA has teamed up with CSCS, the leading card scheme for the UK construction industry, to help managers check that anyone working with complex access towers is suitably qualified. COMING NEXT YEAR Starting in 2021, any Access Tower Specialist cards we issue will...
PASMA are relaunching our training scheme for complex aluminium access towers, and with it comes a new name for those who complete the challenging programme – they’ll be known as Access Tower Specialists and they can build all types of towers, including bespoke...
The basics for employers OverviewA summary of your duties to protect lone workersStress and other health factorsProtect lone workers from stress and other work-related health problemsManage the risks of working aloneHow to make sure lone workers are healthy and...
This guidance is for the person reporting, usually the employer (known as the ‘responsible person’). Members of the public and non-work-related cases There is no requirement under RIDDOR (The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations...
Social distancing means keeping people apart to help reduce the spread of coronavirus. Where possible you should keep people 2m apart. If this is not viable, keeping 1m apart with risk mitigation is acceptable. In the UK some rules such as social distancing may be...
