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I have given the task of completing a safety audit at a paintball center apart from the obvious things like PPE is there anything out of the ordinary I should be looking at?
Once the work is completed I am sure I will be decorated!
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I've never done an audit at a PB site but I have been Paintballing a few times.
I dare say it's important to look at the storage/handling of their cylinders they use for the markers and even the paintball and smoke grenades they have for sale
I believe it's good practice to have some form of netting around sites of high foot fall to effectively take the impact of a stray paintball.
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score wrote:Once the work is completed I am sure I will be decorated! Covered in paint or given a medal? I would expect to see good emergency procedures and comms kit. good use of PPE will reduce the risk from the paintballs but won't stop the twisted ankles and health problems of those who are otherwise sedentry. from my experience, paintball sites wouldn't be the easiest places for ambulance crews to find.
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If it's a United Kingdom Paintball Sports Federation site you will be able to get hold of an example risk assessment.
Some pointers include
Transporting j size cylinders across rough ground
Noise from co2 or air
Paintballs (280 feet per second)
Threat of violence from customers - usually aimed at each other for overshooting
Explosion from air tanks min 3000psi
Manual handling lots of paint boxes, boxes of guns, loaders etc
Hot liquids - water geyser
Fire - smoke grenades in dry grass
Trip hazards in the woodland
Collision hazards - I've seen people panic and run into trees
I'll health - it's a lot more physical than it looks
I could list many more with over 25 years as a player, Marshall and competetitor.
All that said, taking out the bruising, its the safest sport I know and I've played all over Europe and the US
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Many thanks for all your advice
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No mention of falls from heights so far. In my paintballing days there were all kinds of makeshift towers and multi-levelled areas for climbing onto to provide elevated tactical supremacy :) not sure if these are still common?
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Training of the customer for proper loading and unloading sequence, pre and post match to ensure there are no accidental discharges.
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