The Prefabricated Access Suppliers’ and Manufacturers’ Association (PASMA), is the recognized focus and authority for mobile access towers. PASMA advances safety, standards and best practice across a wide range of sectors and represents the interests of its members in the UK, South Africa, South East Asia and the Middle East. Whatever the need, the association has tower information, facts and expertise to impart at a level to suit everyone – from first time users to major contractors.

For Tower Operatives

Towers for Users

• 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

Towers on Stairways

• Work at height responsibilities of employers, employees and suppliers
• Standards affecting the manufacture and use of stairway towers
• Where to find crucial safety information
• When it’s safe to use a stairway tower, and when it’s not
• Carrying out pre-use checks and post-assembly inspections on stairway towers
• The components used in a stairway tower
• Assembling and dismantling a stairway tower using approved methods
• Good practices for the safe use of stairway towers
• Accessing a platform safely
• Moving a stairway tower
• The components used in a stairway tower
• Identifying hazards in the work environment
• Avoiding personal health hazards

Cantilever Towers

• Work at height responsibilities of employers, employees and suppliers
• Standards affecting the manufacture and use of mobile cantilever towers
• Where to find crucial safety information
• When it’s safe to use a cantilever tower, and when it’s not
• Carrying out pre-use checks and post-assembly inspections on cantilever towers
• The components used in cantilever tower
• Assembling and dismantling a cantilever tower using approved methods
• Good practices for the safe use of cantilever towers
• Accessing a platform safely
• Moving a mobile access tower
• Identifying hazards in the work environment
• Avoiding personal health hazards

Combined Low-level Access and Towers for Users

• Work at height responsibilities of employers, employees and suppliers
• Standards affecting the manufacture and use of mobile access towers and low level access equipment
• Where to find crucial safety information
• When it’s safe to use mobile access towers and low level access equipment, and when it’s not
• Carrying out pre-use checks and post-assembly inspections on mobile access towers and low level access equipment
• The components used in a mobile access towers and low level access equipment
• Assembling and dismantling mobile access towers and low level access equipment using approved methods
• Good practices for the safe use of mobile access towers and low level access equipment
• Accessing a platform safely
• Moving mobile access towers and low level access equipment
• The components used in a stairway tower
• Identifying hazards in the work environment
• Avoiding personal health hazards

Linked Towers

• Work at height responsibilities of employers, employees and suppliers
• Standards affecting the manufacture and use of mobile access towers and low level access equipment
• Where to find crucial safety information
• When it’s safe to use a mobile access tower and low level access equipment, and when it’s not
• Carrying out pre-use checks and post-assembly inspections on mobile access towers and low level access equipment
• The components used in a mobile access tower and low level access equipment
• Assembling and dismantling a mobile access tower and low level access equipment using approved methods
• Good practices for the safe use of mobile access towers and low level access equipment
• Accessing a platform safely
• Moving a mobile access tower and low level access equipment
• Identifying hazards in the work environment
• Avoiding personal health hazards

Towers with Bridges

• Work at height responsibilities of employers, employees and suppliers
• Standards affecting the manufacture and use of mobile access towers and low level access equipment
• Where to find crucial safety information
• When it’s safe to use mobile access towers and low level access equipment, and when it’s not
• Carrying out pre-use checks and post-assembly inspections on mobile access towers and low level access equipment
• The components used in mobile access towers and low level access equipment
• Assembling and dismantling mobile access towers and low level access equipment using approved methods
• Good practices for the safe use of mobile access towers and low level access equipment
• Accessing a platform safely
• Moving a mobile access towers and low level access equipment
• The components used in a stairway tower
• Identifying hazards in the work environment
• Avoiding personal health hazards

Large Deck Towers

• Work at height responsibilities of employers, employees and suppliers
• Standards affecting the manufacture and use of large deck towers
• Where to find crucial safety information
• When it’s safe to use a large deck tower, and when it’s not
• Carrying out pre-use checks and post-assembly inspections on on large deck towers
• The components used in a large deck tower
• Assembling and dismantling a a large deck tower using approved methods
• Good practices for the safe use of large deck towers
• Accessing a platform safely
• Moving a large deck tower
• Identifying hazards in the work environment
• Avoiding personal health hazards

Access Tower Specialist

• Laws, regulations, guidance, and good practice relating to work at height
• An employee’s responsibilities
• Your responsibilities
• Differences between standard and non-standard configurations
• Where to find crucial safety information
• Site surveying
• Identifying hazards
• Application of enabling components
• Planning a bespoke tower scaffold build
• Reading and using an assembly use and dismantling plan
• Reading design drawings
• Types of ties
• When and where it is appropriate and safe to use ties