Posted By Pete Sutton
a MS is like a recipe in cooking...as a safety bod you should highlight all the primary needs and material needs for the job...ensuring you put in a lot of stuff about certified and competent operators using certified and suitable equipment..also mention about applyiong to rules and regs and working to desired specs...

then... if your unsure, the best person to ask for a scope of works is the chaps who are doing the job...and just ask them to tell you how they are going to do it... break it down into bullet points making sure each operation is fully compliant with safety procedures..

Theres nothing a contractor or client likes me than to see lots of safety info in there...

regards pete

Posted By Ian Cawthorne
John
My rule of thumb I use when writing method statements is to look at all the individual steps which need to be undertaken to achieve the task through the eyes of someone totally unfamiliar with the process. This way no assumptions are made and it catches all those involved with the process, no matter what their skills, knowledge and experience.

What’s to be included? Imagine carrying out the task, if competent to do so and write down the steps looking for logical breaks in the parts of the activity. For instance, write the title ‘Power Isolation’, then write the steps to achieve this. Write down the next two or three steps to a logical break in activity then include a risk assessment for that sequence of events, this way while those carrying out the task have just considered the job in hand, they immediately then consider the risk and the control measures required to prevent injury. This would lend itself better than making a massive document on the methods to then assess separately where those concerned may have forgotten significant parts already and therefore not relate the two. It focuses the mind.

A judgement call is required on how big you make the document. You need to reach the audience with the correct information of all the component parts which is understandable, easy and logical to follow and at the same time relay the health and safety controls.

Know your own limitations, you may need expert advice in some areas and it doesn’t have to cost anything. For such an important job run the method statement by those to be involved for feed back or invite them in the first instance, attacking the job as a team project, which creates ownership. Two, three, four heads are better than one.

Regards, Ian

Posted By Dineshsingh Meenowa
Has anyone got any document on method statement please

thanks
DM

Posted By Dineshsingh Meenowa
method statement for construction work, demolition any good example please

thanks