Health and safety is apparent in every aspect of our lives, we use common sense in our homes to ensure our safety but all appliances and installations we make in a domestic setting still have to comply with aspects of health and safety such as having your boiler serviced by a qualified and registered corgi plumber.
With just this one example of health and safety within the home, it makes sense that all the other areas of our lives are covered, not only for our safety but for the sake of others too.
People who work at height, have to go through varying training courses to ensure they are up to speed with all the safety training required and have full knowledge and competence to work with the equipment needed. Pasma training is an essential course which has to be completed by anyone working on scaffolding or mobile access towers.
Pasma training complying with the working at height regulations requires all persons to be able to erect, dismantle and alter scaffolding or mobile access towers competently, as well as being able to identify potential hazards.
Although this course is not regulated by a governing body as such, certification of completion of this course is an industry recognised certification and therefore qualifying those persons to work safely at height in any industry sector.
A typical pasma training course takes place as a one day intensive course involving both practical and theory, during the practical, participants will be asked to assemble and dismantle a mobile access tower, as well as carry out an inspection before sitting a test paper at the end of the day. In addition there are ten points of the course which are addressed as theory modules, these sections include:
Introduction to Mobile Towers
Overview of Legislation
Standards surrounding Towers
Safe Tower Assembly
Stability
Safe Use of Towers
Hazards
Repositioning Towers
Tower Inspection
Care & Maintenance
There are several other training courses which apply to people working height, IPAF is the certification required to work on mobile elevated work platforms (MEWPs), mobile elevated work platforms include cherry pickers, scissor lifts, and boom lifts. Many of these mobile elevated working platforms are used in industries such as telecommunications and power industries and therefore certification is essential.
However pasma training and IPAF training doesn't always include the essential PPE required, PPE stands for Personal Protective Equipment and as one would imagine working at height will require an element of this, generally companies are required by law to send delegates who are required to wear PPE to a training course in order to obtain the full certification before commencing work, and depending on the level of safety training separate courses may also be required for safety harnesses, this course in general will go hand in hand with working at height as safety harnesses are a big part of the equipment required for personal safety avoiding slips and falls from height.
It is agreed within the industry that all courses pertaining to safety should be, by law required to avoid accident injury or even death through lack of knowledge when working at height, especially as these potent6ial threats can be avoided by taking just a handful of one day courses.
Author Resource:-
Anna Stenning researches why it is essential for people working at height to participate in pasma training or IPAF training courses to achieve the correct level of competency.
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