Categories: Construction & Allied Trades ,  PASMA Training Courses ,  Working at Height

Mobile Tower (PASMA Approved)

Overview
The course identifies the importance of following health and safety procedures. Handling tower components in a safe manner, erecting suitable equipment using correct procedures complying with regulations and carrying out fault diagnosis on equipment.

This course is designed for any worker who use and inspect prefabricated aluminium towers in the workplace.  As the erection of a tower depends on reading the manufacturers instruction manual, all persons attending must be able to read English. The practical element requires delegates to be physically capable of climbing the tower.

Course Content  
- Overview of legislation and regulations 
- British and European standards 
- Guidance and information 
- Tower components inspection and maintenance 
- Tower Stability and Tying 
- Hazards 
- Erection Methods (3T & Advanced Guardrail) 
- Inspection Requirements and Records 
- Theory and Practical Tests and Assessments 

Legal Compliance
- The Work at Height Regulations 2005
Regulation 5 Competence - “Every employer shall ensure that no person engages in activity
in relation to work at height or work equipment for use in such work unless he is competent to
do so”. 

- Regulation 12 Inspection of Work Equipment - “Every employer shall ensure that, where the safety of work equipment depends on how it is installed or assembled, it is not used after installation or assembly in any position unless it has been inspected in that position”. 

- Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations1998
Regulation 5 Maintenance - “Every employer shall ensure that work equipment is maintained
in an efficient state, in efficient working order and in good repair”.

Competence
The course will enable attendees to erect, alter, move, dismantle and inspect mobile towers safely.