I am currently providing some H&S guidance on a sports facility development project. Glad I asked the contractors to net the skip full of insulating material yesterday - had visions of the high winds scattering the stuff to the far corners of the worksite and beyond!
On a more serious note, just how often do contractors look at weather conditions and make informed decisions on the base of what the forecast is predicting? It's all too easy to ignore those high winds forecast blowing materials around or making working at height unsafe, or the torrential rain that might result in the trenches being dug filling up or becoming unstable. When we risk assess we need to take all these factors into account and that's why I always ask 'are there any changes required because the situation has changed' when I am looking at a risk assessment. Far too often risk assessments are written without due regard to the need to keep on top of frequently changing situations. They need to be 'live' if they are to keep peo
On a more serious note, just how often do contractors look at weather conditions and make informed decisions on the base of what the forecast is predicting? It's all too easy to ignore those high winds forecast blowing materials around or making working at height unsafe, or the torrential rain that might result in the trenches being dug filling up or becoming unstable. When we risk assess we need to take all these factors into account and that's why I always ask 'are there any changes required because the situation has changed' when I am looking at a risk assessment. Far too often risk assessments are written without due regard to the need to keep on top of frequently changing situations. They need to be 'live' if they are to keep peo
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