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Posted By Barrie (Badger) Etter
Hi
With that cold stuff that's supposed to fall around Xmas I started to look for my list of legislation(s) that require us to do something in the car park to prevent injury to employees / visitors falling / slipping on snow /ice only to find it has fallen into that usual void called 'a safe place'. HASAWA and mangt regs aside is there any other pieces of legislation that require us to something about that wet stuff so I may argue with the managers there's a reason for pinching his best blokes to grit the car park?
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Posted By JJF
How about leaving the legislation in the draw and taking the old fashioned common sense approach that someone could slip and get injured!
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Posted By Barrie (Badger) Etter
Gladly, unfortunatley I have some cumudgeon managers that need bits of paper to prover the need for gritting otherwise they won't dig into their pockets for a couple bags of grit!
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Posted By Phil H
I suggest it comes under safe access and egress.I know of one organisation that failed to grit the pathway and paid the price both from an improvement notice and civil claim.
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Posted By Ali
Try HASAWA 74, Reg 3 Management of H&S at Work Regs 1999 and Workplace( Health, Safety and Welfare) Regs 1992.. to justify your actions to the Managers.
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Posted By JJF
It must be a difficult position to be in if you have to convince management to fork out a few pounds for grit.
There is always Occupiers Liability Act to quote if needs be.
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Posted By Barrie (Badger) Etter
Thanks to everyone who responded, now to blind them with legislation for a tenners worth of grit!
:o}
Badger
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Posted By Zyggy Turek
All sorted for a tenners worth of grit...if only it was that simple!
Where do you store it; how do you disperse it; where do you disperse it first; who actually disperses it before others arrive on site; how are they alerted to forecasted drops in temperature, etc.- i.e. do you have a system?
Roll on Spring!!
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Posted By John Murgatroyd
Get a job as a H&S advisor with a council.
You're a natural.
Anyone for conkers ?
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Posted By Barry Cooper
Dare I say "Risk Assessment" and not be criticised
Barry
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