IMPORTANT NOTE: This course is available for existing PASMA instructors only 

Course Overview

Stepped towers, stairway access towers, towers on stairs… they’ve got various names, but they all do the same thing and there’s no prizes for guessing what it is. Of course, it’s a tower designed to be used on a stairway, a spot where access is often tricky. In fact, they can be used in other places where the ends of the tower will be at different heights too.

Course Duration & Delivery

This course is completed over 2 sessions, the first session will be conducted online, under the tutelage of a Lead Instructor.  This normally takes just over a 1/2 day to complete the theory and your assessment. 

Once you have successfully completed session one, you will then be asked to record yourself,  showing how you would conduct a practical session just like how you would deliver it on a live course! Your recording must have commentary, once complete this will be assessed by your Lead Instructor. 

Course Content

The course covers:

• 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 3T and AGR 
• 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

Course Outcomes

This course will enable you to teach the PASMA Towers on Stairways for Users course.

Pre-Requisites

You must already be a qualified PASMA Instructor.