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my career in groundsmanship and the thoughts of risk assessments were the last thing on my mind. At the time, the notion of risk assessments, COSHH Assessments, manufacturer’s safety data sheets were things not yet dreamed of. One thing for sure though, in reaching my early twenties I could count my good health and well being on my successful and continual daily, weekly and monthly risks assessment practices. For sure, some of them were subconscious in nature and these are the assessments that you make when you catch a cricket ball or make a cup of tea for instance. We complete them without really thinking, but can be competent in doing so without sustaining injury. Then, there are the types of assessments that require continual concentration. Making the initial assessment, such as crossing the road, requires further, shorter but continual assessments as we look from left to right and judge how fast the traffic is moving. And then, we come to the sort of assessments you carry out if you know you are going to undertake dangerous holiday pursuits, such as skin diving or mountain climbing. In which case, if you are experienced, then you will most likely, along with your holiday packing, have a written list of all the safety equipment that you will need to take with you as a reminder. You may even have double checked the condition of your equipment to ensure that it is not going to let you down and, lastly, you probably checked out and filled in a holiday insurance form.
into the sort of risk assessments that we each of us carry out when we go about our daily business, and the sort of assessments that we never really complain about. When the topic of risk
assessments comes up in the work So, there you have it, an insight
hat! Carry out a risk assessment, me? I remember starting out on
place, things seem to take on a completely different complexion, and is often seen as difficult when it really needn’t be.
sometimes heard, and you may well have heard some variations on them, are:
• To complete a risk assessment is extremely hard and should not under any circumstances be completed by those not competent to do so
• I’m too busy to complete a risk assessment, I just know what is safe and what isn’t
• I prefer not to go looking for problems, I have enough of my own
So, the thing that I am trying to portray here is that, if you can so easily and competently complete risk assessments out of work, you can, equally, do so as part of your daily work routines - and they can be as difficult or as easy as you want to make them. Being in a work environment, you should remember that it would be difficult convincing authority figures that you have seriously thought about something that carries a high risk factor, if you haven’t written the assessment down on paper. This will not only satisfy them, but will also give the heads up to your work colleagues on any safety aspects of the activity they may have overlooked.
Where do I start?
Anyone who has yet to complete a risk assessment at work will probably have some trepidation about where to start and, most likely, feel a little over powered at the thought of the number that you may be required to complete. Over the years, I have steadily honed some ways and methods that help me to complete my risk assessments with as little fuss as possible. The first assessment tool that I use going into any new situation or place of work is my
Some of the things that I have As recently used on Deep aeration and The advanced
Risk assessments A RISKY BUSINESS?
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