WernerCo, the US based owner of Boss, have recently launched their updated and improved range of Cantilever towers, including the End-Linked Tower and the Extended End Tower pictured above, as featured in the above article, in to the market.

​At RSC Training, one of the Advanced PASMA Training Courses we provide is the PASMA Towers With Cantilevers course, which is aimed at persons who already hold a valid PASMA Towers For Users PhotoID card and who's work includes or will include being responsible for the assembly, dismantling, altering and moving of mobile access towers with cantilevers and how to safely do so without risk of personal injury to themselves or others.

​As Boss is one of the most well known and well used manufacturers of Mobile Tower Scaffolding, we have therefore chosen to use their equipment on our training courses too. The pictured Extended End Cantilever tower shown above is the tower you can expect to build when attending one of our PASMA Towers With Cantilevers courses at our Training Centre in Woolwich, London.

​For more information or to book on to a course, contact us on 0203 794 0798 or email info@rsc-training.co.uk

Who doesn't want to work all day on a Friday??

Neither do we! So with that in mind, we've introduced on our Course Calendar a Half Day Friday, to be run on the last Friday of every month and give you the option of planning in one of our half day training courses. These are the courses we have available to choose from:​

Why not look to get yourself booked on to one of these courses? We can run these courses in either a morning or an afternoon session. Courses will be booked on a first come first served basis, but other dates can be made available, and are all subject to availability.

​Speak to us about Half Day Friday courses on 0203 794 0798 or info@rsc-training.co.uk

It has seemed like an eternity to wait, but finally we have got our Nifty 90 machine back from the repair shop, and as you can see from the above pictures, it's looking good! We are now in a position to be able to offer Static Boom (1b) training again as well as our regular Mobile Vertical (3a) and Mobile Boom (3b) categories.

​The Static Boom category is arguably the most diverse that IPAF have, which opens the Operator up to many different types of machines, including the following:

​Trailer Mounted (as our Nifty 90 is)
Truck/Lorry Mounted
Vehicle/Van Mounted
​Track Mounted (Spider machines)

Why not look to get yourself trained on this category, or add this category to your existing card? You can cover this category either on its own via our Single Category course or as a combination via our Dual Category course.

​Speak to us about Static Boom training on 0203 794 0798 or info@rsc-training.co.uk

​To get a brief overview of our Nifty 90 machine before you come on the course, see the below Manufacturer's video.
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After a bit of a discussion at RSC Training HQ, it was decided that having a pizza lunch ourselves was going to be too much pizza for us to eat, not to mention the New Year healthy eating plans that some of us were going to be doing, so we discussed ideas for what to do with several large pizzas!

​The idea was then mentioned of giving the pizzas away to someone less fortunate than us in the local area. So we put it out on social media for suggestions for a local charity that would appreciate and benefit from having a lunch on us, and after a few people offered their suggestions, the decision was taken to donate the pizzas to Emmaus Greenwich.

​The decision was not a difficult one either, as it turns out RSC Training Director Lyndsey Wright went to school with one of the managers of our local Emmaus branch, Clare Cowen. So once Emmaus was suggested, they got to talking and arrangements were made for representatives of RSC Training to be shown round their main branch in Plumstead by Clare and then for the pizzas to be delivered there that same evening.

As part of our aims at RSC Training Ltd to try and help our customers get the best value and best quality training for their employees, we are pleased to be able to offer the following deals for 2017

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For more information or to book on to a course, contact us or call us on 0203 794 0798.

Working Well With Towers

PASMA Tower Safety Week may be over for another year, but working well with towers should be a continuing practice. As an Official Partner of Tower Week, RSC Training Ltd were provided with four infographics which we shared on our social media platforms throughout the week to promote working well with towers.

We want people to continue working well with towers, so we want YOU to visit the Infographics Page on the Tower Week website and use these graphics to help share this knowledge with all tower users to help keep them safe.

High Tower Challenge

Although RSC Training Ltd was not specifically involved in it, the Hire/Assembly and Hire/Dealer Partners for Tower Safety Week again took part in the High Tower Challenge, measuring the combined height of towers built by them or by others using their equipment.

This year, members managed to amass a total height for the week of 2891m, surpassing last years total by 1022m! PASMA also committed to donate a pound per metre, so raising £2891.00 for their chosen charity, MacMillan Cancer Support.
Great Work!

Tower Selfie GO!

There was 3 awards up for grabs during Tower Safety Week for 3 challenges in the Tower Selfie GO! section. The first was the Tower Master award, and this went to RSC Training Ltd's very own Director and Instructor Richard Chapman! A separate post can be found here for more details.

The other two awards were the Most Popular award, for the most likes and retweets, and Staff Choice For Humour award, for the one that made the PASMA office chuckle the most. These were the winners:

For more details and to find out how you can get involved next year, visit the PASMA Tower Safety Week website.

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For more information or to book on to a course, contact us or call us on 0203 794 0798.

RSC Training Ltd Director and Instructor Richard Chapman has won PASMA Tower Week's Tower Master title for 2016!

This challenge was one of three within the Tower Selfie GO! section, which included getting photos taken with the big foam hand with as many different types, configurations and brands of tower as possible. Richard blew away the competition by getting his selfie with 6 different examples of towers, including a 3T & AGR Standard Towers, a Tower On Stairs, a High Clearance Unit, a Low Level Podium Step Unit and a Low Level Folding Tower Unit.

As a result of winning this challenge, PASMA will be sending Richard and 5 colleagues at RSC Training Ltd a Dominos pizza lunch on them!

PASMA have announced that as of 31st October 2016, the new expected British Standard BS8620:2016 for Low Level Access has been published to effectively replace the Publicly Available Specification PAS250:2012, which has been withdrawn.

Following the implementation of the Work At Height Regulations 2005, the use of Low Level Access, specifically Podiums and Pulpits, became much more common for people to find a solution to doing jobs at low level.

Designs for this type of low level work platform (LLWP) have been previously developed in the absence of a formal standard. Whilst the majority of LLWPs provide a safe solution to low level access, the are aspects of some products that could be improved by adherence to relevant and specific design criteria.

Therefore PASMA, along with a group of other representative bodies, had sponsored the development of this PAS to provide minimum safety and performance criteria for these products.

Facilitated by BSI Standards Limited and published under licence from the British Standards Institution (BSI), PAS250:2012 was published for all products that conform to being "a low level work platform with one working platform with side protection for use by one person with a maximum working platform height of less than 2.5m".

Extracted from PASMA website.

Although PAS250:2012 was a fast-tracked standard designed to meet the needs of the client organisations, it was always only going to be a temporary measure before a full British Standard was implemented. The transition to BS860:2016 is not a major one, including a dimensional change to the side protection and a change to two tests.

Therefore, if your current equipment conforms to PAS250:2012 there is no need to change your product immediately. The transition period is expected to continue until April 2017, where it will be expected that equipment will ultimately be replaced by BS8620:2016 type approved products.

In 2017, PASMA will be focusing on Low Level Access and the transition from PAS205:2012 to BS8620:2016, which will result in an update to the training courses that PASMA specifically provide for Low Level Access.

As a PASMA approved Training Centre, RSC Training will stay in touch with these changes so that we can provide the right level of training for our customers.

View our Low Level Access or Combined Towers & Low Level course.

For more information or to book on to a course, contact us or call us on 0203 794 0798.