Posted By Edward Deighan I have been asked to complete risk assessments and safe systems of work. It involves the loading of household waste/general waste at a council site and then transportation to a council waste site were it is unloaded. Does anyone have general or specific risk assessments etc for such a process which I could use as a guide or could anyone direct me in the right direction as my background is in engineering and these need to be completed over the next week. Any information would be appreciated.

Posted By peter gotch Hi Edward. As starting point I suggest you look at the relevant HSE pages. http://www.hse.gov.uk/waste/index.htm Regards, Peter

Posted By Bob Youel The waste industry is one of the highest risk and most accident prone industries that we have - only competent people should undertake works therein the youngest bin-man that has been killed in the last few years was 12 [YES 12] years old - its a long story - hence the need for competence - I investigated our service after the death of the 12 year [Yorkshire not us] old and found out that we had special needs people being [unoficially] used by one gang