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Hi All
Does anyone have a procedure/check sheet for carrying out a dynamic risk assessment on a site before loading/unloading. I know it is basically an assessment carried out by an employee when any activity is frequently modified and decisions have to be taken quickly which are not all covered by your generic risk assessment.
Any advice be appreciated Eddy
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Eddy wrote:Hi All
Does anyone have a procedure/check sheet for carrying out a dynamic risk assessment on a site before loading/unloading. I know it is basically an assessment carried out by an employee when any activity is frequently modified and decisions have to be taken quickly which are not all covered by your generic risk assessment.
Any advice be appreciated Eddy
Do you mean a lorry mounted crane?
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Hi J Prictor
Thanks for replying. Its for loading and unloading tanks. Its more a bout the procedure/process and how you carry dynamic risk assessments out, record them and feed all this information back into the system again in order to update generic risk assessments. Eddy
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They would either need to write down what issue they had and what they did and send back to HQ (you). So you can review if what they did was appropriate and add to the generic options. Or they just phone in and you make notes.
I'm struggling to see why they are having to make decisions on site and why each load has not been assessed before they are at the sharp end. I'm not convinced this is where a Dynamic RA should be used. More for emergency type activities, not every day stuff that should be planned in advance.
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Hello Chris
Thanks for your advice. We do have generic risk assessments for loading and unloading which covers all hazards, however there are occasions when the driver has to carry out a dynamic risk assessment, for eg possibly another contractor on site carrying out work near to loading point which present new hazards or something on site has been changed from the last time loaded etc. However, appreciate where your coming from. Eddy
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Fair enough if it is other activities. There has been another thread recently about semantics of Dynamic risk assessment v local specific assessment.
We used to get the person in charge (our person) to annotate the original / generic assessment, before any work takes place with whatever unusual hazard we had not been warned of. That way before work started we had a fully working assessment and modified SSW. This would then come back in a job pack and we assessed if we could encounter it again and what controls, we would put in place for next time. This updated generic assessment then was the template for next time.
You do need the peripatetic workers buy in for this to work.
Chris
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The old (sadly) withdrawn L21 ACoP had this to say:
"For activities where the nature of the work may change fairly frequently or the workplace itself changes and develops (such as a construction site), or where workers move from site to site, the risk
assessment might have to concentrate more on the broad range of risks that can be foreseen. When other less common risks arise, detailed planning and employee training will be needed to take account of those risks and enable them to be controlled."
In other words the operative should not be left to devise his own "safe" system of work.
HSE words, not mine.
No excuse for the lazy desktop R/A that did not take the time or effort to foresee that which could be reasonably expected out there.
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