Posted By Glyn Atkinson We have both risk assessments and works instructions in laminated covers within books put out on lecterns, including the signing of training sheets after training on the documentation being returned to a Training Co-ordinator for update to the database. All done on ISO documentation , controlled and issue numbered for ease of understanding. 1000 workers on four production sites, average 5% absenteeism across the board - two lines can swap workers easily, the others can borrow the staff by arrangement -800 yards between sites geographically. Administration nightmare, yes, logistic nightmare, yes, good system, most definitely - especially with a work force that can easily swap between lines at any given moment. Advantage - after any accident or incident -which have dropped by 50% over the last 4 years - -"Was the injured person trained to do the task - Yes they were !" A powerful tool , and the workers now expect to be trained on process and equipment before agreeing to take on new tasks, so they are now aware of the importance of training records ! The more you do , the easier it gets and is expected to be done by the work force. Next step - individual training pocket cards that instantly show the skills matrix in a small table on the back of a clock card.

Posted By Andy Brazier I understand why you want staff to read the risk assessments, but I think you may be in danger of putting your staff off from engaging with the paperwork. Instead of having x pages per work instruction, your staff will feel they need to read x pages of instruction + y pages of risk assessment. Taken as a whole, the whole system starts to look very big. In these circumstances people tend think it is too much bother to look for the instruction, and try to work from memory. I'd suggest having printed work instructions is a good idea, but make sure you only print the instructions that are really needed in this form by staff. Each instruction could then have a reference to the risk assessment, so that people could access electronic copies very easily. I'd suggest you could also have a some form of overview of key findings printed, perhaps a matrix or table which would be much smaller than printing out all the assessments.