How much to put on a generic risk assement?

[Frankie Lawrence]

got 6 risks on my generic risk assement how much more can you put on without putting almost everything We do?

 

Thank for any help.

[gibbon]

A generic risk assesment is for everything you do

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

got 6 risks on my generic risk assement how much more can you put on without putting almost everything We do?

 

Thank for any help.

 

 

Noooooo, I just did you a really good, long reply coz that's what I'm good at (wafflin) and it disappeared...I think the system went a sleep on me (no surprise eh?!)

 

Basically 6 probably ain't enough and you should speak to your staff/colleagues to establish all the 'hazards', not risks initially, you're subjected too and then only deal with the 'significant' ones, i.e. the ones that are really gonna hurt you, that's then where the risk bit comes in, i.e. who's it gonna harm and how + if you want evaluate it based on 'likelihood' & 'severity'...meaning a chainsaw is a significant hazard with a relatively high level of associated risk....WHAT????...if you cut yurself it'll bl**dy well hurt so do summat about it...there!

 

Discreetly, if you're interested, a well known industry body offer RA training which includes a fairly good set of generic RAs which may save you a bit of work BUT there's nothing to stop you producing them yourself it's afairly straight forward process just a bit time consuming AND there's no formal way of recording RAs and the HSE have a fairly good format available on their website at Risk management: Risk Assessment

 

Cheers..

Paul

[DriveLink]

You should have a reasonable list of hazards listed - look for hazards that relate to the equipment that you use, inexperienced operators of that equipment, the site you're working on and the job that you're doing.

 

No need to go into huge depth, but consider hazards such as:

 

kickback / fuel & oil spillage / weather / trip hazards / general public / animals (domestic & livestock) / falling branches (or equipment) / moving timber (safe lifting & handling) / cutting potentially unstable timber / noise / vibration and so on...

 

For each one consider the severity (1 for minor injury, 3 for serious / fatal). Then consider how likely it is to happen (1 for unlikely, 3 for often / always). Multiply them together and you get the risk rating.

 

Whilst that sounds like a huge amount of work - you don't need to create a brand-new risk assessment every time you go out. Make your generic one and copy it - but, and this is quite important, review it and amend if necessary every time you go out.

 

Risk assessments should take a matter of minutes, not be a labourious task lasting hours!

 

Also consider your emergency planning too...

 

Cheers,

David.