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Hope someone can help me with this one. A colleague has been advised by his health and safety manager that evacuation chairs should have a risk assessment under PUWER?
Is this correct? Is so, does anyone have one that could guide me to creating one, as I have 58 of these chairs across two acute sites.
Thanks for any help.
Cheers
HB
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Is it work equipment?
I have about 50 in our estate - the risk management process I have in place are they checked every month for simple things like are they available, fixed to the wall free of obvious defects. These checks are recorded. I do not have a specific risk assessment for them as a piece of equipment.
I have the confidence that on top of the above they are checked when we do training and refresher training for staff - which is quite frequent - I'm comfortable with what I have in place and I have certainly never been challenged by inspection FO's.
Be interested to see if any one goes beyond this?
DP
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Seems like another overboard check.
What are you going to conclude? The equipment is satisfactory and that user instructions need to be made available to thoses tasked with helping disabled people escape in the event of an emergency.
Keep things in perspective.
Large elements of PUWER, even if considered to be work equipment, won't be relevant.
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