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Posted By Karina Brady
Could anyone please tell me if you require a ticket or qualification to erect an aluminium scaffold tower on a building site. I believe that you must be a competant person and in oder to gain competance you must have gained a qualification, is this true and where does it state this in the law. i am based in the Republic of Ireland.
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Posted By Richard Webber
Hello Karina,
You are correct to say that the people that erect Mobile Scaffold Towers must be competent (Ref the new Work at Height Regs) but there isn't a specific qualification required by Law.
Organisations such as PASMA provide good training for the erection of towers and many large Construction companies insist on this ticket as a minimum requirement.
Richard
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Posted By Karina Brady
Richard,
Thanks for your response, it is very heplful. We have a policy within our company that you must have a ticket but some of our subcontractors seem to disagree with this.
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Posted By gham
If that your policy then it's up to you not the contractor. If something happened how could you demonstrate that yours where competent and how could the contractor demonstrate that they provide suitable and sufficent training to their staff. Don't use them get someone else before you start bending your own rules.
Some times we train our sub contractors if we have a half full course with our own guys on it just to make up numbers and we don't usually charge inparticular if it's a course we are accredited to deliver being done in house.
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Posted By Richard Webber
Karina,
The CDM regulations allow Principal Contractors to make Site Rules such as: All persons who erect towers must have a PASMA ticket, or All electrical tools must be 110v wherever practicable, or All persons entering site must wear High Vis etc.
Gham has a good point about assisting contractors with their training needs-it’s good for all parties.
Richard
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Posted By Salus
Karina, you are right you will require competant persons to erect any tower. I would get hold of the manafacturers erection instructions for the tower and as long as persons under your control erect it and use it to those specs,and you have a competant person inspect it before use and at every seven day intervals you will be OK. Things only go wrong if you have an incident and you cannot prove you took all reasonable measures to prevent the incident from happening.If the problem is small keep the answer small, if you think you require incredibly expensive external training which should follow the manafacturers instructions then by all meaans go for it.
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