PASMA

Name

PASMA

Legal name

Prefabricated Access Suppliers' & Manufacturers' Association Ltd

Website

https://pasma.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1976

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Work at Height Training and Certification

NAICS

Testing Laboratories and Services (54138)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Testing Laboratories (8734)

akta.pro primary industry

Process Safety & Major Hazard Risk Management (PSM) (BPAHAJAE)

Keywords

• Mobile access towers
• Work at height safety
• Tower training certification
• Scaffolding industry standards
• Competency card schemes

Headquarters

HQ city

Glasgow

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Fees: PASMA operates as a not-for-profit association generating revenue through membership fees from manufacturers, suppliers, hire & assembly companies, hirers/dealers, training centres, and affiliates.
2. Training and Certification: Revenue from PASMA training courses delivered through network of approved training centres, including Towers for Users, Low Level Access, and specialized tower courses. Also includes card issuance fees and certification services.
3. Conference and Events: Revenue from annual PASMA conferences and events, with day tickets free and premium packages available (evening dinner, bed and breakfast packages at £184-262).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

PASMA is the international not-for-profit trade association for the mobile access tower industry, providing the industry-standard competency-based training scheme and overseeing PASMA Cards that certify safe assembly, use, inspection, and dismantling of towers and low-level access equipment. It operates a network of approved training centres, runs the TowerSure quality assurance scheme for hire & assembly members, supports the Test & Research Centre for product certification (T&R TARGETMARK), and contributes to EN 1004, BS 1139-6, and BS 8620 standards development.

Product overview

PASMA is a not-for-profit trade association for the international mobile access tower industry, providing an industry-standard training scheme and publishing safety-related knowledge, information, and guidance. Its core product is the PASMA training scheme — a portfolio of competency-based courses covering the safe assembly, use, inspection, and dismantling of mobile access towers and related access equipment. The training portfolio spans foundational courses (Towers for Users, Low-Level Access, Work at Height Novice) through specialist tower configurations (Cantilever Towers, Linked Towers, Towers with Bridges, Towers on Stairways, Large Deck Towers) to advanced programmes (Access Tower Specialist, Towers for Managers, Towers for Instructors). Completers receive a PASMA Card (available in physical and virtual formats) valid for five years. Supporting products include the TowerSure certification scheme for hire & assembly quality assurance, the Online Training Portal for e-learning theory delivery, the Online Registration System (ORS) for course administration, and the Safety Practitioner Zone for health and safety professional resources. PASMA also operates the Test & Research Centre (with T&R TARGETMARK certification) which independently certifies towers to EN 1004-1, BS 1139-6, and BS 8620 design standards. Through its online member directory, instruction manuals repository, and partnerships (including CSCS Partner Card Scheme and No Falls Foundation charity), PASMA serves manufacturers, suppliers, specifiers, and users across 11 countries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Towers for Users
• Low-Level Access
• Combined Low-level Access and Towers for Users
• Towers on Stairways
• Cantilever Towers
• Linked Towers
• Towers with Bridges
• Large Deck Towers
• Access Tower Specialist
• Towers for Managers
• Work at Height Novice
• Towers for Instructors
• PASMA Card
• Virtual PASMA Cards
• TowerSure Certification Scheme
• Online Training Portal
• Online Registration System (ORS)
• Test & Research Centre
• T&R TARGETMARK Certification
• Safety Practitioner Zone
• PASMA Knowledge Academy
• 3D Tower Building Game

Named customers3 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Test & Research CentrecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPASMA supported establishment of the Test & Research Centre in Soham, Cambridgeshire for testing scaffold towers and access equipment. The Centre manages certification schemes (TowerSure, T&RGETMARK) for PASMA. PASMA uses the Centre to train new instructors and offers product certification schemes.
• Access Industry Forum (AIF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPASMA is a member of AIF, a forum for 11 principal trade associations and federations involved in work at height. AIF fosters codes of good practice, equipment standards, training, education and knowledge. Peter Bennett serves as AIF Chair.
• No Falls FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPASMA is a founding trustee and Platinum Supporter of the No Falls Foundation, the first and only UK charity dedicated exclusively to preventing falls from height and objects falling from height. Peter Bennett serves as chair of the Board of Trustees.
• Dubai MunicipalitycoreGTM or Marketing PartnerDubai Municipality released Technical Guideline GU74 recommending PASMA training for all mobile access tower users in the Emirate. PASMA supported the development of this guidance document.
• Pop Up Products and AltrexminorStrategic or Co-development Partner10-year partnership signed June 2020 covering sales and distribution of mobile access towers, ladders, stepladders and associated access products in UK and Ireland. Includes worldwide IP partnership. Previously developed world's first one-person erect tower range (MI TOWER).
• HSS Training and Bounce BackminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership providing PASMA training to ex-offenders through Bounce Back charity, which equips ex-prisoners with construction industry skills. HSS Training delivers courses at Bounce Back HQ in Victoria, London.
• Ashghal (Qatar Public Works Authority)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerSupported PASMA Qatar Symposium 2019 held at Radisson Blu Doha with over 50 delegates. Qatar Symposium provided updates to Qatar Construction Specification 2018 Section 11 on health and safety.
• International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IIRSM)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerFirst safety association given exclusive access to PASMA Safety Practitioner Zone library of resources including toolbox talks, tower reference guides, and safety videos.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• NASC (National Access and Scaffolding Confederation): UK trade body for the scaffolding sector, publishing industry standards and overseeing the CISRS scaffolder training scheme. Directly comparable membership/training/standards role for a competing access method to mobile towers.
• IPAF (International Powered Access Federation): IPAF runs the parallel industry-standard training and PAL Card competency scheme for mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs), the closest direct analogue to PASMA's scheme for mobile access towers. Operates the same member-and-approved-training-centre model for work-at-height equipment certification.
• CISRS (Construction Industry Scaffolders Record Scheme): Operated under NASC, CISRS issues competency cards for scaffolding operatives — the same card-based credentialing model PASMA uses for tower users, serving overlapping construction-site customers.
• Ladder Association: UK-based trade association for the ladder industry, chaired by Peter Bennett in 2019 when it won Business of the Year. Operates a near-identical training-and-membership model for portable ladders, the natural upstream alternative to mobile towers.

Others

• CSCS (Construction Skills Certification Scheme): CSCS operates the industry-wide skills card used across UK construction sites; PASMA is a Partner Card Scheme provider so its cards feed into CSCS verification. Not a competitor but a tightly coupled distribution channel.
• Access Industry Forum (AIF): Umbrella forum of 11 principal UK work-at-height trade associations in which PASMA participates. Peter Bennett chairs AIF, making it the closest ecosystem-level peer rather than a direct competitor.

Broad incumbents

• CITB (Construction Industry Training Board): Statutory training and standards body for the UK construction industry; PASMA's Towers for Managers course and CSCS Partner Card scheme interface with CITB's wider competency frameworks. Much larger incumbent covering all construction trades.
• OSHA (US Occupational Safety and Health Administration): US federal regulator setting fall-protection and work-at-height standards analogous to those PASMA helps shape in the UK/EU. Comparable mission (preventing falls from height) but regulator rather than industry association.

Emerging players

• Fall Protection Association (International Society for Fall Protection): International professional body focused on fall protection research, standards and education — a broader but shallower work-at-height peer that overlaps PASMA's safety-advocacy mission outside the equipment-specific standards lane.

Regional players

• ACWAHT (Advisory Committee for Work at Height): UK advisory body that PASMA participates in and references on its website. Closely related work-at-height policy forum but advisory rather than training/certification-led.

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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