[Steve Weatherley]

I always knew one day I would be asked to provide a risk assessment sheet. Today is the day this happened! This is for a carpet cleaning job in a dental surgery which I plan to do out of hours. Can somebody point me in the right direction with this? Does anyone have a pro forma one?

[Steve Weatherley]

anyone please?

[Karl Wildey]

go to the home page of clean it up and look under documents to download, or run a search and untick all boxes except documents to download, run search for risk assesment, theres a few on there

[robert meldrum]

go to the Health and Safety web site where you will find guidelines. Unfortunately there is no Standard template as risk is multi variable.

My wife is a risk assessor but she she says the risk you are assessing is,

What potential risk YOU might present to the premises / fixtures / fittings / personnel while carrying out the task of cleaning .

So..................you identify any potential risk

Hoses, Wet surface, Skid risk when walking off carpet onto vinyl, chemicals being used, exhausting into the atmosphere, etc.

You say how you will overcome, or manage all of the identified risks and write it down

You WILL find templates by searching for risk assessment info which you can adopt

[markpowell]

I have e-mailed you a load of templates and stuff.
Mark

[richy27]

Mark dont suppose i could be cheeky and ask for copy too .

Richard

[kleanitall ltd]

Hi mark
any chance you could email some to me please
Thanks

Dave

[suffolkclean]

I've seen a copy of a risk assessment on here before do a search or post same request on the contract cleaning side on this forum. I'm sure that's where I saw it.

Barbara

[markpowell]

Both sent
Mark

[absolutecleaning]

Could I have a copy as well please Mark.

Cheers

Simon

[richy27]

Both sent
Mark

thanks
mate

[Doug Holloway]

Hi Guys

I was advised on one I did that the risk assessment must be by you to show you have thought about it. A standard form would be useless.

I have always kept these things short and clear, don't waffle.

Cheers

Doug

[robert meldrum]

Correct Doug and  thats what I was suggesting above, you are assessing the potential risk YOU present to users of your service and how you will deal with identified risk.

[John Kelly]

A standard form is acceptable as long as it has option boxes for the specific location and hazards at that location. Otherwise if you were busy commercially and goint to say 5-10 different locations over the week it would be nightmare.

[Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)]

Doug, Robert, John

We're all right in out thinking. But don't you just hate the fact that things have come to the point that doing a job is all about providing the right form (and covering our backsides) rather than clients just accepting that if we are professional we know the risks and take appropriate action.

It's not as if accidents won't happen (because we have filled in a form) as by definition accidents  are usually beyond being prepared for or are beyond normal foresight.

I much prefer to work with clients who accept that if I screw up I am liable irrespective of whether I'm trying to hide behind an official form with all the correct boxes ticked.(equally this type of client is also likely to accept their own responsibility if something goes wrong which is clearly not of my making in other works they don't look for somebody else to blame.)

There's too much "red tape" in this world for my liking (although I accept that perhaps I'm not in a majority in accepting personal responsibility.)

Roger