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Posted By STEVE
Hi
Can anyone give me some pointers of what to address when performing a R/Assessment regarding environmental issues/concerns on an office.
the office is a small buisness, which would only be used for office work,no work equipment would be stored here.
If anyone has performed this type of assessment and has a template that I could view this would be even better
Many Thanks
Steve
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Posted By Chris Abbott
This is my subject! I've e-mailed you direct - Chris
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Posted By Chris Abbott
Wrote that before I saw you didn't have an e-mail address - Doh!
Mail me.. I have templates and samples of just about every office type assessment you can want!
Chris
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Posted By John Murphy Steve Leeds City Council - Risk Assessment Training Leeds City Council Health and Safety Inspection Group have developed this excellent training package as part of their commitment to working with businesses to achieve safe and healthy working environments for those at work. The package combines simple and practical advice with interactive learning exercises, to take you through a comprehensive step by step guide to health and safety risk assessment. The tutorial covers the basic principles behind risk assessment, explains the requirements of the Law - along with how to achieve compliance, and gives a simple demonstration case study to show how the different elements of risk assessment can be brought together to achieve real health and safety improvements. The final stage in the training package is a mock risk assessment exercise for you to practice the techniques you have learned. Completing the tutorial will give you the information, knowledge and skills necessary to implement a successful risk assessment programme in your own place of work. www.leeds.gov.uk/risk
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Posted By Dave Wilson
Steve,
The HSE has a free booklet called 'Office Safety' and will gyuide you through the requirements of the safe working conditions with a 'low risk office environment as required by the Workplace regs etc.
If you follow this make sure you comply and change / implement to ensure you do, then RA will not be necessay, why do a Risk Ass on something which you should be supplying anyway? as if you do this then the Risk would be low / insignificant.
what I am really saying is undertake a 'status Review / Audit' to start, this will give a basis of where you are now and then 'fix' any non-compliance issues, use RA for Specific items which are 'a substantial Risk to Health' eg Cooling Towers, Man Hand Lifts, Gas and Leccy etc etc
You can then undertake 'active monitoring' on a regular basis within the the area to ensure that any day to day lapses are identified and 'cured' before problems arise, this will ensure that it stays 'Safe & healthy'
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Posted By Mark Thompson
Chris , grateful if you can email the same stuff to me
Regards
Mark Thompson
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Posted By Alan Johnson
Steve
Have I missed the point or are you looking for an ENVIRONMENTAL Assessment (waste, energy, process etc.) as opposed to Health & Safety, most replies seem to be safety.
Alan
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Posted By Dave Wilson
Nice one Alan, I missed that as well.
waste reduction, energy conservation, legionella, IPPC / Noise/ Nuisance / water / heating / Lighting / ventilation etc etc
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Posted By STEVE
Thank you for all of your contributions
And yes Alan I was looking for some pointers, for the suggestions you made.
I just needed to know that those where the areas that needed to be addressed
Steve
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Posted By Roy Gladwell
There are three elements to consider when carrying out an environmental risk assessment
Source, Pathway, Receptor, without any one of them you will not have an environmental risk.
There are two parts to the operation of a buisness that have to be considered Aspects & Impacts
Aspects, those elements of an organisations activities, products or services that could or do result in environmental impact.
Impacts, environmental changes that occur wholly or partly, as aconsequence of an organisations aspects.
Regards
Roy
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