[M.Acorn]

Anyone have these in place ?
Gradually going through everything,and updating,as my business is turning into a different kettle of fish now,few years ago it was just me out cleaning carpets ect,but things have changed now.
Have just been and opened a proper business account with Barclay`s,so I can take Visa payments with their EPDQ Virtual terminal,got sage book keeping,software and other software for marketing and business plans and a shed load of other stuff.
I carry all the data sheets now,and a full on first aid kit,as i am always cutting my fingers on stuff,and nothing worse than dripping blood on stuff..
Does anyone else have risk assessments for their company`s ?

[davep]

Depends where your working, different scenes may have different risks

[M.Acorn]

It`s pretty much limitless then,as there are so many possible scenarios,the more time i spend thinking about it the worse it get`s

[Paolo]

They are a major pain in the RS!

They have to be modified for each job really.

[Paul Evans]

Hi Mark
I think the risk assesments are for your employees, Ie chems used,manual handling,think the 1974 act health and safety at work act covers them all. making sure wet floor signs are in view. for joe public.

I might be wide of the mark   pun inteded.

Hse have a good website

Paul

[Paolo]

http://www.hse.gov.uk/risk/fivesteps.htm

[Denise l]

I have a few generic ones for general office cleaning, pressure washing,reach & wash etc

D

[Neil Williams]

Once you've got the basic format together it's not too bad to amend, but you still need to visit each site and make notes, and then make the changes to the sheet.
So time consuming.

[Rick Ward]

they only need to be recorded ie written down when you employ 5 pple, 4 plus you- unless required officially by contractor if thats not yourself  etc. HSE state that it is necessary to record SIGNIFICANT RISKS but if an employee or other has an accident then it is virtually always the employer who gets it in the neck. Read up on MHSR 98 on HSE  website its easy enough. I've worked in Health and Safety management and yep its just a necessary evil but not as bad as many make out who dont understand it.

[M.Acorn]

That`s that crossed off the list then,cheers !! 

[Jamie Pearson]

For commercial work in addition to your data sheets for your chems you need to have seperate COSHH assessments for each product.

Its a total pain. Especially when you have 200+ products in stock!

Data sheets alone are better than nothing but if you get an on the spot audit by the H&S nazi on a commercial site this is what they demand.

There is a site that is quite quick to generate basic ones. You basically punch in the name, description of use and the risk phrases from the data sheet and your done.

Unfortunately you still need them if you are an owner/operator with no staff and the maximumcommon sense a human can posses.

I hate it.

Recently did a 16m2 sample on a floor and it took an 87 page document to cover everything we were taking on site. PAT Test records for equipment, RA, MS, COSHH, PPE records, Accident Reporting Logs, VOC certificates etc etc. took longer to prepare than the job did.

It was through ROK and they went bust 2 weeks later!!!