PASMA Towers for Users study materials
PASMA Towers for Users study resources

PASMA Towers for Users case studies

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PASMA Towers for Users is the training course for people who assemble, use, alter and dismantle mobile access towers - often called tower scaffolds - in the workplace. PASMA describes itself as the international not-for-profit association for the mobile access tower industry, representing manufacturers, suppliers, specifiers and users, providing and overseeing the industry standard training scheme and publishing safety-related knowledge, information and guidance. The course is aimed at operatives who erect towers, and it appears in PASMA's training list alongside specialist options such as Combined Low-level Access and Towers for Users, Towers on Stairways, Cantilever Towers, Linked Towers, Towers with Bridges, Large Deck Towers and Access Tower Specialist. Expect the assessment to draw on the topics PASMA publishes under its tower guidance: product standards, buying and hiring safe towers, safe use of a scaffold tower, guardrails, toe boards and platforms, and inspections together with assembly methods including the 3T and AGR approaches. The PASMA Towers for Users case studies are 5 cases and about 3,091 words.

1

The Two Quotations

A facilities supervisor needs to paint high-level pipework along a warehouse wall, with the highest fixing at 6.2 m. Two hire companies quote.

636 words, about 3 min
2

The Cambered Forecourt

Two operatives need to replace a floodlight using a tower with a 6.0 m platform height. The tower is 1.0 m wide and 2.5 m long and is to stand on a tarmac forecourt that falls about 1.5% towards a drain.

621 words, about 3 min
3

The Incomplete Guardrail

During a refurbishment, a 4.0 m platform-height tower is being used for ceiling works. A supervisor notices that on one side the platform has a top rail at about 1.0 m but no intermediate rail.

619 words, about 3 min
4

The 3T Tower After Impact

Two operatives erect a 5.5 m platform-height tower using the 3T method. Assembly finishes at 10:00.

608 words, about 3 min
5

The Second-Hand Mixed Tower

A site has an old mobile tower bought second-hand. The frames carry a stamp from a withdrawn product standard and no BS EN 1004 label; the platforms are new and marked as complying with BS EN 1004-1.

607 words, about 3 min