Dust Means Death!

[adeejaysdelight]

All you can do is talk to the guy. You might be surprised by his reaction. I'm just saying prepare yourself for every eventuality. That way you don't come off a fool with half baked ideas when it comes time for him to grill you on your suggestions. And if it pays off and benefits the company, you are even more the golden boy  . PROMOTION ANYONE!

[Dead Eye]

Who knows, you might become the new Health & Safety advisor haha

[maddog04]

deffo go to the HSE and keep going back if the employer ignores them
as for Fizzy pies, I used to work with an arl fella on the welding and there was no ventilation/extraction systems...............he's now fucked big time with his lungs...............it will catch up with you so don't ignore it :eek

[helen]

Warehouse environments don't have to be dusty.  I work for a company which specialises in cleaning warehouses and keeping them clean. The working environment can always be improved and often with warehouses it's improved hygiene routines which are needed to control and reduce dust through cleaning floors and pick faces and wiping down racking.

[nick crisp]

I don't know. It's hard to think straight about it while I feel so lousy. I think I'll sound my line manager out about it on Monday, see what he thinks. He's a good guy. If there's no solution, I guess I'll have to look for alternative employment.

[nick crisp]

I'd just like to say a quick thank you to everyone who posted thoughts and advice on this thread. It's been of great help to me, and given me some ideas to try. I wasn't sure whether this forum was the right place to have such a conversation, but I'm glad now that I did. Thank you all very much. :thumbup

[noggythenog]

With the risk assesments the risk must be "As low as reasonably practicable" and formal risk assesments should already be made up to cover all of the obvious risks within your environment, these assesments should be reviewed periodically & if there was room for improvement reasonably possible on the last review then that should have instigated further reviews to see if it had been done or made any difference.
So basically if the company had to spend 100k to eliminate the problem and then they went bust that would not be reasonably practicable but if the risk was controlled or reduced (because eliminating the dust is most likely not possible) by separating you from the dust or safe working practices that reduced the amount of dust then that might only involve a small amount of money in comparison.
PPE is always the last resort in the H&S world.
try doing a bit of homework on reasonable ways to reduce the risk, look at industry best practice etc.
Oh im no proffessional but i have just done the H&S Managing safely course so if you need me to look anything else up from the books just gimme a shout.

Fras