Highlights will include Don Aers (PASMA) on how (and why) Transport for London is working with PASMA to improve the behaviour and approach of its principal contactors and suppliers to working at height.
Rhaynukaa Soni (HS2), Paul Ormsby (GES) and Barri Millar (Association for Project Safety) take part in a panel discussion on the challenges of managing work at height, drawing on experience from their own careers – which have involved lighthouses, large-scale events and transport.
Katie Kelleher (crane operator and owner of KatieCranes.com) will join Pam Agent (Astley Hire), Gillian Rutter (Hire Access and Skyward Training) and Gail Hounslea (Ladderstore.com) for a panel discussion on why women are seriously under-represented in construction and what we can all do about it.
To celebrate the many faces of the humble tower, PASMA Hire & Assembly members Stephen Kane (Ridgeway) and Pete Harley (STS Access) will take you on a journey from podiums and folding room to one-person and EN 1004 towers, onto more complex builds involving cantilevers, bridges and stairs and finally, advanced configurations built to specification. They’ll be sharing case studies of the most interesting jobs they’ve been involved with and the process they went through to design a safe way to access seemingly inaccessible areas.
Brian Parker (AFI Group of Companies) and Darren Verschuren (Serious Labs Inc) will explore the factors that make someone decide not to put safety advice into practice and suggest how employers can get their workforce prioritising safety over all else – even when no one’s looking.
Paul Pritchard, a retired PASMA auditor, will remind us how things used to be, and how far we’ve come, in a light-hearted walk back through 60-odd years of evolving safety standards for mobile access towers.
Of course, you’ll learn plenty about new developments in tower safety and get advice on preventing falls from height from the PASMA team. Welcome and closing remarks will come from PASMA’s Managing Director, Peter Bennett, who this year received an OBE for his contribution to height safety.
