Hi Forum,

I attended the Shake rattle & roll IOSH seminar on 16/5/19 and in light of the seminar I have produced some  document templates for risk assessment.  My idea was that team managers would describe a task like parks maintenance, cemetery grounds management, or verge mowing, then they could outline what team members do on a usual day, the equipment they use, and so the likely daily exposure totals.

 It all sounded good in theory but managers say it will not work in practice.  There is not a standard day or activity, team membership changes as workloads and priorities change, and team have access to a wide variation of equipment types and emission values.  Therefore I am stuck as how best to demonstrate to HSE that we have risk assessed routine tasks and estimated staff exposures, with such variation of task/equipment and absence of routine. 

We have a good grip (no pun) on the equipment emission values in the field and we have data to show actual exposures to named staff but we are lacking the task risk assessments to describe the potential levels of risk and to describe how each activity will be controlled.

 Has anybody got any tips on how to capture that amount of variation/flexibility?  Do you assess each equipment/tool type (150+), do you describe an average day at a site, do you describe the longest day at the worst site etc?

Grateful for any pointers

Mark