Reducing the risk...
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations states that all work-based activities that have significant risks attached must be assessed, and the identified risks must be eliminated or reduced so as to pose no further significant risk. This means conducting a risk assessment.
Where significant risks remain after completing the risk assessment, a Safe System of Work (Method Statement) must be compiled that clearly shows how the people involved in the task should accommodate the residual risk and complete the task safely.
Where the tasks are regular and repetitive the Safe System of Work may be recorded as a generic document that requires periodic review or revision when circumstances change significantly. For other tasks that are unusual or ‘one-offs’ a site-specific method statement must be produced.
David Watson Transport has a number of risk assessments and method statements prepared as generic documentation for many of our lifting operations, but with the expertise of those involved in compiling those we can offer the service to others. We can conduct site visits, perform risk assessments and compile site specific method statements as a stand-alone service or included as part of a ‘one-stop-shop’ for a lifting operation we conduct for you.