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Our company is located in a very old building (1800's) and is allegedly haunted.
My boss has arranged for a local ghost hunting company to carry out some paranormal investigations in the new year and i have been tasked with coming up with a risk assessment and disclaimer for participants to agree to.
Just when I thought my job couldn't get any stranger...!!
There will be several groups trawling around the works with only the emergency lighting activated. Each group will be made up of a ghost hunter and 6 employees who have made a donation to charity for the privilege of having the life frightened out of them! The tours start at 9pm.
Extra efforts will be made during the day to ensure that all walkways are clear and trip hazards eliminated.
Apart from insisting that each group member has a torch, is wearing suitable warm clothing and sensible footwear and doesn't have an underlying heart condition, what else can I put in the assessment?
Obviously there will be no production going on or fork lift trucks whizzing around (unless the ghosts are mechanically minded!) so I can disregard most of the general risk assessment geared towards pedestrians in the workplace.
All suggestions gratefully received and, yes, I am being serious!
At least it's a light topic for the run up to Christmas!
Caroline
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Why only emergency lighting? It would seem an obvious step to allow normal lighting, or are ghosts glow in the dark things? What am I talking about - they don't exist...
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Apparently the 'investigators' use some highly sensitive camera equipment to record the 'ghosts' and the cameras operate best in near darkness!
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Hi sweetcaz
Just how much is being paid for the ghost hunting team? Is your organisation that cash rich that it can fund paranormal investigation when everyone else is tightening their belts?
See if they can find Lord Lucan while they are at it........
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The ghost hunters aren't being paid anything. They do it as a hobby.
The donations made by the particpants (and matched by the Company) are going to the local childrens hospice.
It's just a bit of fun....
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You may need to carry out equipment checks on all the 'ghosts' that are placed by the investigators? This may include electromagnetic devices, air con units, etc to create sudden drops in temperature, and the hair tingling experience. Obviously these won't exist as they will only be invesigating 'real ghosts' so probably not worth mentioning. Cynical, me? Never!
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There is a generally approved SSOW for dealing with ghosts etc:
First of all, the house (or wherever) should be very badly lit. Nobody is allowed to carry a torch, whistle, mobile phone or anything which could attract attention. At the first sign of a creepy noise everybody must split up, and the weakest and smallest members of the party have to go in to the cellar, from which they will never.... emerge.... alive....
John
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On a serious note... this should fall under "Volenti Non Fit Injuria" should it not.
As long as the participants are made aware of the risks involved in this unusual use of the facility.
Especially as these participants are not Employees at the time of the event. They are employed by the company, but not carrying out work for the company.
One question to add then, are they then covered by Public Liability Insurance during this time, or are they still covered by ELI. ANyone know? The same could be transposed to a Works Christmas party??? Are employees covered by ELI?
Wazimu Mzungu
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Not really an officeanado on partical stream generators but if memory serves me correctly, Never Ever cross the streams!
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Don`t believe in them myself...but do believe in properly risk assessing an activity. Think about asbestos, uneven floor surfaces, sharp edges, slippery surfaces, communication procedures, lone `working`, etc. for starters.
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For starters you need a COSHH assessment for harmful spirits...
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Look - I have seen enough episodes of 'scooby do' to know that there is no such thing as ghosts - it's almost invariably the caretaker!
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Make them all watch Paranormal Activity first.
After that you will have eliminated all risk as they will have ran away! :)
I assume youcan turn the lighting on if required!
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Thanks for all your replies.
We're going with torches (as it won't be scary enough with normal lighting!) and sensible footwear (decided against insisting on safety shoes that are normally required in the works during production periods).
We're still debating hi-vis waistcoats!
All personnel will sign in (and out) at a central point and be allocated to groups and discouraged from any lone explorations.
Employees attending will include first aiders and trained defibrillator operators (useful in case anyone is overcome by the whole occasion and needs jolting back to reality!)
Despite several requests spirts of the alcoholic kind will not be allowed and neither will candles. The argument that the latter would increase the spookiness is vastly outweighed by the fact that we're an oil company and the thought of a bunch of hysterical ghost hunters traipsing around clutching naked flames fills me with way more terror than any (alleged) ghost does!
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