[Computercleaner]

I am extremely new to this and have been overwhelmed by the help, advise and good wishes I have received from other members.  Although in a different field, I am still touching on cleaning issues and everything sent has been gratefully received and useful.

However, I have a question I am hoping someone out there may be able to help with.  I have received fantastic advise from one member on doing Risk Assessment and have used this as my blue print, I am also going on a free Risk Assessment Course which I am hoping will be of benefit.  My only other difficulty is trying to find info on 'Safe system of Work' - I have been assuming that this would be the same as Risk Assessment and this would suffice, however, I have been asked by one company to produce this as well as Method Statement, Coshh certificates and Risk Assessment - and am at a loss where to start or how to lay it out.  Has anyone been asked for this?  If anyone has any examples of theirs, although this could be of a completely different field to Computer Cleaning, I would be very interested to see what you have put and how you have layed it out.  I am at a loss as to know where to start.

[Len Gribble]

Would love to show how good I am buy cutting a pasting, have a look at these site!

http://www.workcover.tas.gov.au/resource/safesystemso.htm

http://www.safetyline.wa.gov.au/institute/level1/course3/lecture5/l5_02.asp

and I hope this helps

Len

[Computercleaner]

Thank you for that Len - I have just had a quick look and I have to admit that most of my days are blond days and it went soaring over my head - thats probably due to my biggest problem - I am too thick to do this.  I will try and digest all the information  I only hope I can put it into some sort of format that will suite.  Maybe I am making too big a deal of H&S but I am determined to do everything right from the start and take no short cuts - so I guess I have some reading up to do.

I am still looking for a format to do this in and want to keep it as simple as possible as the process I will be performing is quite simple and don't want to complicate things.

Thanks again Len - I'll get my thinking hat on!

Regards
Oli

[Len Gribble]

Oil

You are not alone, think of it this way 100 people see some one blow the brains out of some one they all identify the aslant, and they get off on a technicality!

Think this sums it up

One of the problems with any description of a "safe system of work", is that there is no commonly accepted definition of a "system" or a "system of work". A system can mean many different things. Sometimes it is used to simply describe something that is done in an orderly way. It may be an "information system", either computerised or in the form of manuals and written procedures. There may also be engineered systems, such as those relating to process plant, or systems that rely on human activity, such as communication systems. Sometimes the failure of a system can result from these many different expectations of what it is, how it will work and what it will do.


The company who ask for it I would ask for there’s in diskette form!

Len