Posted By Darren J Fraser Hi Thomas Have a look on www.safetyphoto.com, use the pictures as snapshots for trainees to highlight the hazards and suggest control measures. From this you could then develop the scene further by providing pieces of information, such as PTW (permit to work) is in operation, person concerned is trained, site induction highlighted the safe use of equipment etc.

Posted By Darren J Fraser Understand your concern anon1234, however I am merely trying to give some ideas of how Thomas could develop their own scenario for construction as I personnaly have never seen any. Upon reflection my use of wording could have been a lot more prescriptive. If the photo idea is not a workable solution for any reason, an alternative could be to video a process e.g. lorry delivery, offload etc and use that as the basis of developing a scenario. Short of taking someone into an area to conduct a 'live' assessment, where they are able to ask, observe, question etc, a classroom will always be second best, saying that I would rather delegates learn what they missed in a classroom, before carrying out a real assessment.

Posted By Michael Battman For people who are new to risk assessment; a good example is to ask them to do a risk assessment for cutting the lawn with an electric lawn mower.

Posted By Thomas Elliott Thanks for the responses. The two scenarios I went with were: Full refurbishment of 6 storey block of tenements Roof repair on a high school There was a lot more detail of each project in the scenarios, but thought I'd let you know what I went with. I had some appropriate photographs to use in the hazard spotting section, but didn't know about this website so thanks for that. Much appreciated to those who posted. Kind regards Thomas

Posted By Thomas Elliott DM Your right, this sort of project will require lots of risk assessments, however they way in which our organisation tackles them is to take a generic overall approach to highlight the significant hazards and risks that the project will present. The controls will indicate that topic specific risk assessments must be carried out such as work at height, manual handling, use of work equipment etc Such topic specific risk assessments will require further training in order to carry them out competently, but to introduce the foundations of risk assessment and the responsibilities under the management regs we facilitate the generic course first. Thomas