PASMA Towers for Users study guide
PASMA Towers for Users · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
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 PASMA Towers for Users study guide has 5 sections and about 1,911 words.
01Product Standards and Tower Standards
The Product Standards and Tower Standards domain tests whether you can separate a tower's product standard from the wider legal and technical framework. A mobile access tower should be designed and manufactured to BS EN 1004, the current product standard for prefabricated mobile access towers.
376 words, about 2 min02Buying and Hiring Safe Towers
Buying and Hiring Safe Towers tests whether you can specify and accept a tower that fits the job, not just one that looks tall enough. You need to translate the task into platform height, working height, duty, access, ground and transport requirements, then check the product and paperwork before money changes hands.
383 words, about 2 min03Safe Use of a Scaffold Tower
Safe Use of a Scaffold Tower tests the day-to-day controls that keep an erected tower safe: planning, ground conditions, stability, access, movement, weather and exclusion. The tower can meet BS EN 1004 and still fail if it is used outside its limits.
349 words, about 2 min04Guardrails, Toe Boards and Platforms
Guardrails, Toe Boards and Platforms tests the fall-protection hardware and the working surface. The exam wants you to know what must be in place before a platform is used, how the components work together, and why a missing or badly fitted part makes the tower unfit.
420 words, about 2 min05Inspections and Assembly (3T and AGR)
Inspections and Assembly (3T and AGR) tests how a tower is put up, how the assembly method protects the erector, and how inspection keeps it safe. 3T means through the trapdoor; AGR means advanced guardrail.
383 words, about 2 min