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Posted By CFT
I inspected a place of work a few months ago for the first time (a favour) and came across over 500 RA's!!! the best one (IMO) was - Hazard= broom handle??? Risk= getting splinters from the broken and repaired handle, who was affected and so on and so forth, risk rating extremely likely + Fatality!!!!! Tetanus/and 14 further diseases as copied from a medical journal were cited; all without further control measures; solution = duck tape around join and inspect regularly when it starts showing wood splinters;severity after newly installed control measure, 'unlikely' but may be unless tape is renewed on a regular basis!
I cracked up, it was truly one of the best I have ever come across.
As for the remaining 499, you just don't want to know; so has anyone else come across an oddity of circumstance when looking at existing RA's?
It's a Friday after all!
Charley
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Posted By Brett Day
Working near high tension power cable, listed as a hazard 'stress'.
Otherwise can't even come close to yours...
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Posted By peter gotch
Charley.
I've seen a COSHH assessment for exposure to water.
P
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Posted By Jeff Manion
Wire wool COSHH Assessment with MSDS
Parking risk assessments - in a location with the personnel in the building (employed around 25 persons) with around 60% plus with PHD, 30% MSC / BSC.
JM
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
Exposure to cold assessment for ice cream eating!!!
Bob
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Posted By Ron Hunter
COSHH Assessments are always a rich vein of humour. There was the one for a hand soap (!) with the control measure - avoid skin contact, wear gloves. I kid you not!
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Posted By AndyF
I was once asked by the Client for a COSHH assessment for a 2.40m * 1.20m * 0.025m road plate. I wondered what he thought I was going to do with it
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Posted By Ian G Hutchings
- sitting down to relax in a chair.
- use of hole punch (2 and 4 hole).
- standing too close to the microwave.
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Posted By CFT
Electric chair Ian??:-)
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Posted By Beth Robinson
When i was a student i worked in the union bar, and there was a risk assessment for changing a black bag. It has a procedure section which stated (no word of a lie), when changing the bin bag insert the bottom of the bag - this is the end that doesn't have the opening!!!!
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Posted By Karen Todd
One for face painting children which stated as one of the controls: "Only the faces of children who wish to have their faces painted, will be painted".
Why would you even consider trying to paint the face of a child who doesn't want it done??? And how would you go about same?!?!
K
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Posted By MP
My best was 6 for using a photocopier.
...and by the same assessor, 12 for using a FLT (24 if count them being repeated when using an FLT "in the dark"
Happy days
MP
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Posted By MP
oh, and on the subject of COSHH - I was one asked for the ppm WEL limits for nitrogen.
MP
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Posted By lizzie harvey
Workplace Transport RA done by the H&S bod (ahem!) at our delivery depot. (FYI, our deliveries are a tailgate drop onto a busy pavement, artic facing downhill, approx 15 degree camber)
Our biggest hazard (apparently) is fire, with a risk of "major death". We have been requested to have a powder PFE at the ready to put out aforementioned blazing artic!!
Our lowest risk, according to this person are collisions with vehicles and bollards. 2 collisions with vehicles so far, and 3 bollards have been sent flying into the air, resulting in mass scattering of pedestrians and staff!!!
And people wonder why I take a drink? :-)
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Posted By David Matthew
I was once asked for one on a particular subject and on giving it to the requestor was told that I had 'scored' my pre-control risks too highly and if they accepted it they would be critised by their own H&S advisors.
I had to point out to them that if I scored it any lower all risks would be trivial so I wouldn't have to provide a written risk assessment in the first place. Took them a while to get their heads around that.
David
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Posted By PL
I've been asked to Risk Assess a 18" x 18" fridge. When I asked what the percieved risks were, I was told that "we risk assess everything with a plug on it". This by a PHD.
My other favourite was when I was asked to do a DSEAR Assessment on the headspace inside a 5 litre tin of paint.
I'm responsible for a whole paint factory where we currently have over 1 million litres of flams and highly flams. Slightly bigger fish to fry....
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Posted By Donk
I recently was given a workplace inspection checklist that requested any dead flies in the office were accounted for!!!!!!
The list also requested that live flies were exempt from the count due to the fact they are extremely hard to count whilst flying around!!!!
Its all true, no wonder we get so much bad press.
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Posted By RP
COSHH:
salt and pepper in mess room, this was to extend to ketchup before intervention, person doing it on £12.30 per hour...
Swiming pool,
risk=drowning, very likly
control measure=avoid contact with water and in the event of drowning make for the nearest pool ladder...
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Posted By Alan Hoskins
Not sure if it was a 'tongue in cheek' asessment, but the highest risk identified for a site visit was the 'driver falling asleep' on the way there (or back).
The driver in question was well known for 'apparently' being asleep in meetings but still able to ask intelligent questions on proceedings...
Alan
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Posted By Merv Newman
Some years ago I "risk assessed" a smallish paint manufacturing facility (white-lining paint)
Site was 100% no smoking and all equipment was ADF etc. so, on the face of it, current control measures were adequate.
Until I took a walk around the outsides of the buildings (mainly tall grass and weeds, resulting in very wet socks) and noticed the heaps of mouldering fag ends outside of most of the windows. (including that of the site manager)
There is a big difference between risk assessments, action plans and real life.
How do you deal with it ?
Discuss
Merv
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Posted By MP Grayson
Not wanting to be a kill joy, I work in a prison and there is a very high risk to self-harmer's. Not only that but some interesting side effects can be obtained by mixing materials/chemical substances. So with staff under pressure we work together to provide as much info as possible at hand when its needed. As a result I have some very strange risk and COSHH assessments that many of you would laugh or scoff at. However, I was surprised to see the following when I took the job over.
1. A COSHH sheet for the kitchen fire suppression system stating that it was a highly flammable gas.
2. A COSHH sheet for soap requiring the user to "wash their hands" after use.
Crack on.
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Posted By RobCammish
Had a good one for workers doing refurb work in housing association properties where the owners had a pet dog and possibility of being attacked by it
Control measures included carrying a hammer or blunt object to fend off the dog, or if none was to hand being fit enough to either outrun the dog or a work collegue
I do like a good site specific risk assessment
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Posted By Nick Higginson
I have a client who carries out laser hair removal in clinics in London. One of their risk assessments stated that "as we all know, male genitals have a life of their own, so try not to be offended".
Not sure how much stranger it can get?
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Posted By Glyn Atkinson
Here's one asked for by a senior female director, and it was a serious request to guard off all small office type paper shredders that the company use!
So, request for a risk assessment on fixed guard fitting to a paper shredder used in an office as a control measure after an incident.
Risk perceived? - high chance of loss of false nails into shredding mechanism by incorrect alignment of paper.
Controls in place - none.
Controls required - show the girl how to feed the paper in correctly instead of letting her feed in a folded piece of paper with her nails pointing downwards.
Had she been shown how to place paper into the shredder by anyone? - no!
Moral - never assume that the office junior has ever seen or knows how to use ANY simple office equipment!
Solution - pick one that bites their nails !!
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Posted By CFT
Glyn
Many years ago whilst shredding some confidential documents in the office, this poster managed to dangle tie precariously over said shredder and YES!!! it went in; set a new trend in fashion and also was the brunt of much "well, it happened to the right one!!!"
Thank goodness for the emergency stop!
Charley
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Posted By Frankie
I used to work in the factory described by PL, and can confirm that the PhD asked me to have PL Risk Assess the fridge (to be used of ORSA tubes only....), and write a method for its use (and nothing so simple as 'open door, place sample, close door')
My current workplace has an RA for the use of PPE... Written and approved by someone way further up the ladder than me (or should that be MEWP??)
It makes you wonder, it really does...
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Posted By Joe Ridley
I came across one for water test (swimming pool) tablets. All you had to do was push a tablet out of foil packaging into a test tube to measure chlorine levels in the pool. On the assessment it was specified the user must wear rubber gloves and an apron and protective eyewear! Now that would be a sight to see.
Joe
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Posted By Paul Duell
Back in the far-off days of long ago, I was a lab technician, and part of my duties was training new techs in the use of the equipment.
We had a machine in which the gears had to be changed to adjust the operation speed. You opened the gearbox lid which stopped the motor, then kept clear while the flywheel and the gears slowed and stopped (I know, wouldn't comply these days...)
I opened the gearbox lid, showed the trainee how the gears slowed down and stopped, and said "and whatever you do, don't put your hand in, like this, until the gears have stopped..."
I've still got no feeling in those fingertips.
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Posted By Tony abc jprhdnMurphy
A couple of months ago I saw a RA that identified one of the hazards as "aeroplanes".
On investigation it transpired that crane lifts near airports do indeed need to take into account of aircraft. However this particular crane lift was in a village near Wigan so it had obviously been copy and pasted....and accepted by the Principal Contractor.
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Posted By Anthony Slinger
A bit off topic, I know.
Not a risk assessment, however, I was given an H&S policy in 2004 from a small building firm. They had just paid for it!
After trawling through the list of 25 “common” (mostly out of date) legislation, 2 pages explaining how section 15 HSWA works and the management regs in full there were 4 (yes 4) pages explaining the principles of atoms, protons, nucleus, etc.
Just one quote of many:-
“The number of protons on the nucleus of an atom is equal to the number of planetary electrons, and is different for each element; hence the elements can be tabulated according to the number of protons on the nucleus”
Then there was an example of a chlorine compound, electron drift around a circuit and calculating coulombs x current x time.
In bold it was written “Knowledge of the above is necessary”!!!
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Posted By PL
Oh yeah...
Strangest hazard I was presented with was if asphyxiation if the gas bottle was to leak.
The bottle contained oxygen...
Again, a chemistry graduate
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Posted By Ian Bennett
I once worked in a Dairy and was asked to risk assess milk!!!
Well, it does rot leather
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Posted By John J
I've seen one for filling out a form listing hazard as paper cuts leading to possible fatality. Death by a thousand cuts springs to mind.
I've also seen one for a paintball site where the author had estimated average number of paintballs shot/average number of people playing/360 (potential angle of shot) = likelihood of being hit. He completely missed the point of the game in that the balls are shot directly at each other and being shot is inevitable.
My favourite though was risk of hypothermia in a fridge plant room. He should have visited the area and seen the maintenance team in shorts and T-shirts to get a real picture of what the area was like,
John
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Posted By water67.
Hi, very funny stuff but maybe a bit worrying in terms of our PR as these things are pounced upon by TV, tabloid press etc.
Rob think the one on the dog is based on the story of the two guys walking through the jungle suddenly a lion roars out of the bush and starts running at them. One guy goes into his bag and takes out a pair of top notch running shoes and proceeds to put them on. Second guy scoffs and laughs - don't be silly you wont out run a lion not even in those shoes.. nope says the first guy.. but I sure as "H" will out run you!!!
Cheers all happy RA's
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