PASMA Publishes inspection guidance for tower use
October 1st 2008

A NEW PocketCard from PASMA, the trade association representing the mobile access tower industry, is an indispensable guide for inspecting mobile access towers on site. Designed to promote competence in collaboration with the HSE, the card offers simple, straightforward advice to users ‘from the ground upwards’.

Nine easy-to-follow steps take the user through everything from environmental factors and ground conditions to the safe and proper use of adjustable legs, stabilisers and frame locking devices.

The reverse of the card is equally helpful and explains when towers must be inspected under the Work at Height Regulations, how to complete a tower inspection record, what to do if an inspection is unsatisfactory, plus the record keeping requirements of the regulations.

The PocketCard explains that the regulations require that a competent person must inspect mobile access towers regularly and that a report of that inspection must be provided within 24 hours to the person for whom the inspection was carried out.

PASMA has agreed with the HSE that the completion of a PASMA tower inspection record by a competent PASMA-trained operative, and affixing it to the tower in question, satisfies these requirements without the need for any further documentation to be provided.

The same inspection guidance is also available on two new PASMA posters. A2 in size, they are intended to be displayed in factories, workshops and offices.

Comments PASMA MD, Peter Bennett: “The PocketCards and posters join the PASMA Code of Practice, DVD’s and tower inspection record as invaluable aids to the safe and productive use of mobile access towers on site.”

The new cards and posters are available from the association’s online shop: visit www.pasma.co.uk

About PASMA

Recognised and respected as the lead trade association for the mobile access tower industry in the UK and Ireland, PASMA makes a major contribution

to tower criteria, design and safety. Its training course is firmly established as the industry standard and its various committees are dedicated to advancing knowledge, performance and safety throughout the industry.

As the accepted voice of the industry it also provides tower information and expertise through its representatives who sit and advise on a number of other influential bodies.

It is a leading member of the Access Industry Forum (AIF), the ‘alliance for access’. For more information please visit: HYPERLINK "http://www.pasma.co.uk" www.pasma.co.uk and HYPERLINK www.accessindustryforum.org.uk

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