Posted By Charley Farley-Trelawney
John
With respect I am just a tad puzzled that you have a 3 page RA on First Aid, what part of FA are you assessing; the availability or lack of?
Again, with respect you would seem to have identified quite a bit in the RA, and come up with some good examples, Have a look at the following, it may be of help to you:
* Identify the hazard/s (if any)
* Decide who may be harmed and how including any special categories of persons, i.e. Young Persons, Nursing & expectant Mothers, Disabled, Employees, Visitors, Contractors, Public, (both invited and not invited.
* Evaluate the risks arising from the hazards and decide if the existing control measures are suitable and sufficient or indeed further measures should be considered
* Record your findings
* Inform all concerned of your findings and make sure you involve all concerned in the general production, (it makes for a thorough RA)
* Review the RA and revise as necessary.
When complete, a simple method for assessing risk with and without further control measures is from Fatality down to No injury and a risk rating, High, Med, Low 'crunch' the numbers and you have a sensible assessment.
In terms of First Aid I do have an assessment here but it only covers a double A4 and has very little on it, I consider that the hazards and risks are at an absolute minimum. I have a responsibility for over 2000 persons in all cats detailed above; to date no incidents have occurred with regard to FA that prompts me to review any earlier than 12 monthly, if however I had many problems I would review earlier.
Make sure with FA that you consider: shift patterns, Hospital location, trained FA persons, adequate supplies of FA equipment, rest room etc etc, not definitive just meant to be an example.
If I can be of any assistance to you don't hesitate to ask
Best wishes
Charles