Hi, I'm fairly new to H&S and have only just passed my NEBOSH. I took over the H&S role from a predecessor, but didn't get a handover and their record keeping was a little sketchy. This means I'm trying to create my own records and files and I'm trying to establish what I should and shouldn't keep records of. A recent incident on site was a couple of teenage trespassers who accessed the site, climbed on the roof and sprayed graffiti. I think that should be recorded as an incident, and that we should carryout a risk assessment to determine what we can do to prevent it happening again, but my line manager disagrees because it didn't occur within the scope of carrying out our business, or work. Does anyone have any thoughts or links to relevant information that could help us settle this dispute?

I do hope this is the type of thing I should be asking here - apologies if not - but if not, could you guide me to a more suitable resource?

Many thanks.

You have duties as premises occupier to all who are present which also extends to intruders. If you do as suggested I.e. nothing and some time later there is a repeat but this time one of them falls through the roof could the business cope with disruption whilst police etc investigate?

Better to investigate and resolve now than to hope for no repeat - nowadays there is a trend for teenagers to post their exploits on !ine and for others to try and go one better.

Thanks to you both Rounduit and gramsay. I'll raise this again tomorrow and your arguments will make it easier for me to make my case. At the end of the day, I'll just raise the paperwork and put it in the file, and make sure it's dealt with. Cheers.

If the story had ended "... and then they fell off the roof and broke their necks" your manager would soon find that it affected the business!