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Posted By Ste Germski
Good Morning All,
I am trying to put together a Work At Height Risk Assessment form to be used on site. I would appreciate it if one of you guys could e-mail me a copy of your WAH RA so I could gather the relevant information to develop one for the company. Any info or blank RA would be gladly recieved, thank you.
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Posted By steve e ashton
Its been said before on this forum: there is no need to have a work at height risk assessment form.... The WAH regs require you to have regard for the assessment undertaken in compliance with the Management Regs.
If you risk assess the task rather than the hazard, you will take account of PPE, COSHH, Workplace, Manual Handling and etc and including any hazards from working at height.
If you do it the other way around, you have ten bits of paper all dealing with the same job, all of which have to be briefed to the men, and a serious problem keeping it all up to date.
Sorry, but I strongly advise you review the way your company is addressing the need to assess the risks from its operations. This is intended to be a positive suggestion.
Steve
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Posted By Ste Germski
Steve
Much appreciative of your comment, but I am well aware of this situation, but when I send off Method Statements and Risk Assessments of to the client (Principle Contractor), it has come to knowledge that when they review what has been sent to them , which I have to is very detailed, they then pass it to someone who has a list which it has to comply with. I have spoken to them regarding this and they don't seem to budge.
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Posted By Andrew W
I fully agree with Steve's comments above. Assess the task/operation as a whole and include the relevant control measures for the WAH issues. I've sent you a copy of an RA for one of our tasks with relevant WAH controls.
Andy
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Posted By Steve B
Whilst I agree with Steve's comments with regards to general risk assessment, I believe their is a place for specific working at height RA as there is with COSHH and Manual Handling when there is a significant risk of injury (that has been identified in the initial assessment), therefore seeing as that we are still killing people, and the biggest killer is falling from height, I think a specific assessment (after the initial is sometimes required.
Steve
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Posted By steve e ashton
OK Ste, appreciate your predicament, and share your apparent frustration. Sometimes I really wish there was some way of taking the gormless litle box tickers, and making them see a little bit of sense.
'You ain't on my list so you ain't coming in'.
But your list is out-of-date, and was written by a crazed imbecilic goblin
'You shall not pass'
ZZZZZZaaaaaaappppppppp!
In at last,
Let sense prevail.
Then again, its Friday, innit.
Ho Hum.
Sorry I can't help - I have never actually used a piece of paper with 'work at height risk assessment' on the top.
Best of luck!
Steve
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