The HSE has issued a safety alert to the construction industry, scaffolding companies and scaffolding suppliers, urging immediate measures to prevent unauthorised access onto scaffolding and other work platforms to be taken. With the school summer holidays now here,...
Less than 30 days after the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) revealed that falls from height increased in 2017 (despite an overall downwards trend), reports of two companies being prosecuted for height safety failings have been published. Firstly, PJ Livesey...
06 September 2017 New-style AMM wins approval New-style AMM wins approval NOW a combination of the traditional Annual Members’ Meeting (AMM) and Conference format, the inaugural PASMA Members’ Conference attracted a record audience comprising of PASMA members and...
Like many other organisations in the work at height sector, PASMA, the international not-for-profit authority for the mobile access tower industry, welcomed the reduction in the number of fall from height related fatalities for 2016/17 as recently reported by the...
The fatal injury rate (FIR) for mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) declined in 2016, despite the fact that the total MEWP rental fleet and the number of rental days worldwide increased significantly over the same period. The data, exclusively collated and...
The final line-up of speakers has been confirmed for the sixth IPAF Asia Conference, which will take place on 13 June 2017 at the Meixi Lake Hotel in the historic city of Changsha, capital of Hunan province in China. Tim Rule, Vice President – Market Development at...
PASMA, the not-for-profit authority for the mobile access tower industry, is pleased to support the Access Industry Forum (AIF) and Working Well Together’s joint safety campaign – Working Well at Height. AIF, the forum for eleven of the leading trade associations and...
We'd like to congratulate PSM Plant & Tool Hire Centres for winning the PASMA sponsored award of 'SafeHire Company of the Year' at Hire Association Europe (HAE) Hire Awards of Excellence 2017. The winner was announced during HAE's glittering award ceremony, alongside...
The final speaker programme for the IPAF Summit 2017 has been announced. Around 500 industry professionals are expected to attend this year’s Summit and IAPA awards dinner, taking place on the same day: 4 April, in London, UK. The theme of this year's Summit is...
Mobile tower association PASMA has introduced its Safety at Height Advisory Panel, an initiative designed to promote height safety and the safe use of mobile access towers. The panel is intended to make the specialist knowledge, operational guidance and resources of...
