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Hi,
Can anyone offer any advice re: moving offices safely, my employer plans to relocate an office lock, stock and barrel and doesn't want to use a removals company just hire a couple of transits as the new office isn't too far from the old one, aside from the risk assessments and manual handling issues involved is there anything else that needs to be considered?
Many thanks
Jay
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Can't see transits and office furniture being a problem in this case but one thing to be aware of is that many of todays workers passed their driving test after 1995 and therefore can't drive anything over 3.5 tonnes without further examinations.
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Probably not much help to you Jay but I have encountered this issue many times and my advice is always to get professional movers. The likelihood of personal injury to employees carrying out the activities is potentialy pretty high, and the resulting personal injury claim(s) will have an impact on the business.
Staff in general, let alone office staff are unlikely to have the appropriate level of training and experience/competence to carry out the task.
Your employer wil also need to be informing their insurer of what he/she proposes.
These are my thoughts, for what they are worth.
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Jay, I may be taking you too literally but beyond risk assessments there's nothing else of a health & safety nature to be considered.
If you're after practical advice about conducting moves I'd have to say that planning's top of the list. Work out what goes in first, what needs to be done to it (e.g. assembling workstations/storage etc) and labelling stuff accordingly.
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A consideration of the views of the workforce would be nice! Unless of course the "employer" intends to do all the work himself.
Consider:
"I can't do heavy lifting". "Neither can I". "I'm not confident I can drive a Transit". "I can!" (but I can't really).
I wonder if the employer has even considered getting quotes from the professionals. He may get a pleasant surprise.
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Thanks for your advice, I am trying to get them to at least look at a removals firm so fingers crossed!
Jay
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If you do end up doing it yourself you should at least have a vehicle with a tail lift and all the necessary skates/trolleys etc.
And what about crates for moving all the other stuff?
I would be so much simpler to get a professional service to do it.
Good luck with it!
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jay brogan wrote:Hi,
Can anyone offer any advice re: moving offices safely, my employer plans to relocate an office lock, stock and barrel and doesn't want to use a removals company just hire a couple of transits as the new office isn't too far from the old one, aside from the risk assessments and manual handling issues involved is there anything else that needs to be considered?
Many thanks
Jay
throw a sickie that day
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When I was in the Army I had no choice but to help lug the contents from one office into another many times.
As a civilian I was ready to help move everything but pleasantly surprised to be give two free days off when a removal company did all the work for us!
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