Mobile Towers

Mobile Towers are one of the most dangerous pieces of equipment on any site. This Mobile Towers course will ensure candidates are able to erect and dismantle towers and understand current legislation.

Who should attend?

Anyone in an organisation, who assembles, alters, dismantles, moves, inspects, and most importantly uses alloy or fibreglass mobile access towers in the workplace. This not only includes construction sites but all workplaces, such as schools, offices, and factories both internally and externally.

Aims and objectives of the course:

To impart the necessary knowledge and skills required by the designated persons to safely use, check, inspect and tag a mobile aluminium tower structure. To provide the necessary knowledge, so that each delegate will have the necessary understanding to move, dismantle, check for damage and carry out weekly inspections of a mobile aluminium tower structure with due regard to health and safety.

At the end of the course delegates will:

Understand the safety requirements
Understand and interpret the manufacturer’s instructions.
Understand the procedure for checking component items
Show an awareness of the hazards and risks involved in using and moving towers
Ensure a safe means of access is maintained.
Ensure stability of mobile tower structures.
Calculate the height to base ratios for all situations, to enable safe use at all times with due regard to health and safety.
Understand and ensure safe working loads are not exceeded.
Display understanding of erection, moving and dismantling operations.