Posted By Darren Brittle
Hi
we have a partially sighted employee working for us and he has recently been registered blind, he is very experienced in his role and could quite probably do it "blind folded".
it is unskilled manual labour with not many obvious risks to him involved.
however it can quite busy round him as it is a warehouse with fork lifts operating constantly.
Anyway just looking for any advice for conducting a risk assessment specifically for him and anything that i should be looking out for in particular.

Thanks Darren

Posted By bereznikov
Sorry Darren,

in a rush for a meeting, but, I would say of particular importance would be the risks associated with:

- Walkways/Routes - slips, trips and falls (i.e. a "Clean-as-You-Spill" policy)
- Emergency procedures (i.e. need for nominated "escape buddies")
- Traffic routes (good level of internal lighting)
- Work environment (Marking difficult structures with haz-tape or easy-to-see colours has helped in such circumstances)
- Good housekeeping


Hope this helps, and sorry for the rush!

bereznikov

Posted By Phil Rose
Can I suggest that you look at some assistance from Employment Services, Access to Work scheme. The adviser that came to assist us last time worked with the RNIB (who may also be able to assist)

Phil

Posted By water67.
Hi, agree with what has been suggested. But, and this may sound obvious and hopefully you are aware enough to have done so, make sure you include the employee in discussions. It is amazing how many people undertaking such assessments go off in a corner, carryout what they think is a wonderful assessment, decide on control measures..but don't talk to the person .. remember he isn't just partially sighted/blind at work he is so 24 hours a day and has to cope with similar issues as he goes about his daily life.

Cheers

Have a good weekend...

Posted By Darren Brittle
thanks for the replies, i have involved the employee, asking various questions, ranging from what he has difficulty in seeing, colours etc.. and he can see most large things and recognize what they are, it is the small things he mainly has difficulties in and colours which complement each other,white on white so to speak. Where it is dark he also has problems seeing things, so keeping areas well lit and using clashing colours would help him quite a lot and implementing a buddy system so he has someone to go to should there be any thing that he requires assistance with.