Risk assessments

[DAVEM]

Our (local authority) self-managed allotment association is applying for a national award and we need to submit risk assessments which to date we have never drawn up. It looks like a minefield ! Any advice/suggestions?

[scarletrunner]

Risk assessment.

Google"sample allotment risk assessment"sample form and check list may be of use.

[Jeanied]

Risk assessments are usually best done by two or more people with the checklist, walking round the site and discussing the various risks and ways of minimising them. Not a desk job.

[zazen999]

And they should be done by a 'competent' person, so ask on site if anyone is H&S trained and get them to do it!

[gojiberry]

Please please just allow me to grow fruit and veg on my allotment without all the S**t from the world of employment and jobs. I was in catering when all the risk assessment started and it was moths and months of work. I don't think it made a lot of difference to working practices, just allowed the blame to be shifted to the individual rather than the management when something went wrong.

Ian

[susieq100]

Couldn't agree more ... just paper work to 'bolster' common sense!

[Florian]

Our (local authority) self-managed allotment association is applying for a national award and we need to submit risk assessments which to date we have never drawn up. It looks like a minefield ! Any advice/suggestions?

I undertake RAs as part of my job and am more than happy to offer advice or look over them. Just bob me a DM

[teengrower]

hi a risk assment is divided into catergies: risk, to whom, action taken to reduce risk, further action requierd

so for example cutting with secteteurs may cut finger, risk to: self, wear suitible gloves, no further action required

digging with spade may cut toe, risk to: self, wear steel toe saftey boots, take more care using spade to aviod hitting toe

[bigt1888]

there are five steps to risk assessment

identify the risk - e.g. someone digging a hole

identify who is at risk - the person digging
nieghbouring gardeners
visitors etc.
eliminate if possible - e.g. signs saying no digging ( not practical)

control the risk - barriers, signage, cones, boards etc

review - monitor how effective the control measures are e.g. has anyone been hurt in the same accident and if so introduce more controls...

you can get templates from the net quite easily or make one up yourself

hope this helps

hope this helps


if you stick to these basic steps any risk assessment can be done it just depends how detailed the council need you to be

[rana]

Why not employ a bus load of H&S civil servants to do the job properly. It seems a shame not to take advantage of the training they will have received - most probably at the tax payers expense.

[Jono]

The Health & Safety Executive has some good stuff on their website:

Risk management: Five steps to risk assessment