03-08-13, 11:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-08-13, 11:14 PM by 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
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
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