Posted By Kelly Mellis
Evening all,

I am due to risk assess an activity which involves handling various plants, planting them out and tending to a garden etc. I have no problem with the activity based risk assessment, however I would like to know somewhere I can source information as to the toxicity of plants etc so I can check them when the list of plants being used arrives with me.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Kelly Mellis
University of Northampton Community Volunteers

Posted By Kelly Mellis
Most of the plants will have been home grown so we don't really have that option - will do for some though.

Thanks!

Posted By Alan Nicholls
Hi Kelly try this site

www.plantsciences.ucdavi...ng/PoisPlant/Tox-Com.htm

Regards Alan N

Posted By Robert.
kelly, i would suspect that if you know the latin name of the plants then places such as Kew (is spelling correct?)gardens or cambridge botanical Gdns could help.
if you only have the every day common or garden name (pun) then that may not help as a particular species may have many variants.

Anyway, wear non-permeable gloves and follow normal hygiene advice.

Posted By Bob Youel

remember some plants are toxic and are hazardous waste - undertake a dynamic risk assess before you start e.g. get a gardner in

the biggest individual cost on a railway bridge job that I undertook recently was; believe it or not; plant control [removal disposal etc]