David Someone with a thorough understanding of how physical and cognitive ergonomics applies to safety for people with physical and mental impairments can do a suitable risk assessments. If you can afford to pay a professional ergonomist, with relevant expertise in safety and disability mangement, you should get it p.d.q. If you can't, why not approach one of the courses that offer M Sc programmes in Ergonomics to see whether someone would like to dio it for a project? It would take much longer, naturally, so you'd have to weigh up the tradeoff between speed and cost, although you might get better recommendations for risk management from a professional by virtue of their breadth of experience as well as up-to-date nowledge of the Equality Act 2010.

All the above said what is 'reasonably practicable' should/must also come into the equation - we deal with 1000's of such cases every day in all types of environments without much mishap - so take note of the postings but also use common sense and get hold of your local disability [or whatever your local people now call themselves] group as that are very helpful and knowledgeable

Why use expensive people to carryout a simple task of looking at what needs to be done with someone with a disability. If the work they are likely to undertake when visiting your site is that complicated then you simply don't do it as the risks are far to great than it is worth just for one day. If however, they are visiting and undertaking simple tasks (if any) simply talk to them or thier carers and find out what they can comfortably do. You will need to take into account such things as fire evacuation and complete a PEEP for them and ensure they understand the l;imits on what they can do when on your premises. There is no need to undertake a whole raft of expensive assessments for just a single days visit. This will need to be done for each individual who vists remember.

David, Whilst the above points need to be considered, I would offer the following thoughts based on my interpretation of your question (apologies if I have not picked it up correctly) You seem to be considering offering people with some "disabled" persons the opportunity to visit your workplace for a day, and carry out some meaningful work whilst there. That being the case then, the first stage would be to talk to the person concerned and their carer (if appropriate) and gauge the level of support they might need to undertake some tasks. Once you have this information, you may then identify the need for specialist advice, but even that may be available from some of the charities. If it is only a day visit as you seem to suggest, then I would have thought, in the main, it unlikely that anyone would be pursuing high risk activities that would merit extensive(expensive) input from experts. The carer will know the limitations of the individual, you will know the limitations of the systems and procedures that are used in the park - it shouldn't be too challenging to make sure the two match up and all significant risks are dealt with. The risks assessment would be a joint document. A questionnaire might be used to gather initial data, but I think I would want to rely on a slightly more robust systems that would be at least as person specific as a PEEP. I hope I got the right end of the stick, and that this is helpful. Good luck with the visits, I hope they all go well Stuart