I’m looking for a risk assessment for catching and dissecting of Rat from the wild and was wondering if anyone person had experience in this or a RA available?
Cheers, Mark

Go on then - I'll bite!

Why?

I am assuming that we're considering the 4 legged, long-tailed, genuinely animal variety?

Frank Hallett

The contents of the risk assessment will obviously depend on the methods chosen for catching and despatching the rat/s. How about the system from "Fawlty Towers" on BBC TV of using a nice piece of steak with rat poison on it?!!! Take care to use precautions to avoid contact with the poison. Also it's best to place the meat in a location inaccessible to cats and dogs, etc., otherwise there's a potential risk of being confronted by irate pet owners. :-)

This is way out my area, so I'm just asking out of interest. If you were in education as a previous poster suggested, surely you would use Lab Rats, (ie clean from contagions) the only reason Can think of to dissect wild rats is to study the diseases they carry and their immunity to those diseases, but I could be way off the mark here. I'm just interested to here why you have to dissect dirty rats.

thanks guy all sorted now.