Corporate Health & Safety created this risk assessment on: 30 January 2024 (Corporate Health & Safety Review Date 30 January 2026).
Department: Neighbourhoods
Location: Foots Cray Depot
Date completed: 30 January 2024
Directorate: Place
Service: Environmental Services
Manager Completing Form: Calum Boyd
Overall risk rating: Low
Instructions:
- This applies to all work activities that fall under this particular task
- If this risk assessment does not cover all of the hazards and existing control measures required relevant to your service, you should add them below at ‘Other risks (please detail)’ and notify the Corporate Health and Safety Team by sending the risk assessment attached to the email
- If further controls are necessary, these should be recorded in the ‘Additional controls to reduce risk’ column, and a revised lower score given
- Please communicate this risk assessment to all your staff e.g. via email, team meetings etc, evidencing how you do this
- Review the risk assessment annually after an accident/incident or significant changes to the workplace or working processes
Terminology:
- Activity - The type of work being undertaken e.g. use of a piece of electrical equipment or machinery
- Hazard - Something with the potential to cause harm. Harm can be physical, chemical, biological or psychological
- Control Measures - Actions taken to prevent hazard being realised. Control measures can include such areas as training, supervision, safe systems of work, maintenance procedures, physical measures such as guarding and personal protective equipment
- Likelihood – the chances of harm occurring on a scale of 1 to 5 with 1 being highly unlikely and 5 being highly likely
- Risk Rating - Multiply the likelihood figure by the severity figure to get the risk rating after the existing control measures have been considered
- Severity – the level of harm/injury caused by the accident or incident, on a scale of 1 to 5 with 1 being No injury and 5 being a fatality
Likelihood (L) × Severity (S) = Risk Rating (RR):
Activity | Nature of hazard and potential injuries | Persons at risk | Existing control measures | Current risk rating - L / S / RR | Additional controls to reduce risk | Revised risk rating - L / S / RR |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Litter picking across the borough | Slips, trips, and falls | Litter pickers or members of public |
| 2 / 3 / 6 | - | - |
Litter picking across the borough | Sharp objects (Injury from things like hypodermic needles, broken bottles, and thorns) |
| 1 / 3 / 3 | - | - | |
Litter picking across the borough | Hazardous waste, asbestos, chemical containers, and drug related litter |
| 1 / 3 / 3 | - | - | |
Litter picking across the borough | Hygiene and potential contact with Bio Hazards – dog faeces, vomit and used condoms (Illness such as toxoplasmosis, e. coli and roundworm, Leptospirosis (Weil's disease) |
| 1 / 3 / 3 | - | - | |
Litter picking across the borough | Heavy items (manual handling injury) |
| 2 / 2 / 4 | - | - | |
Litter picking across the borough | Live or dead animals |
| 1 / 1 / 1 | - | - | |
Litter picking across the borough | Weather (Effects of cold - hypothermia) |
| 1 / 3 / 3 | - | - | |
Litter picking across the borough | Weather (Effects of heat – hyperthermia) |
| 1 / 3 / 3 | - | - | |
Litter picking across the borough | Vehicular traffic when Litter picking on the pavement/footway |
| 1 / 5 / 5 | - | - | |
Litter picking across the borough | Lone working on footway |
| 2 / 3 / 6 | - | - | |
Litter picking across the borough | Contact with harmful vegetation or insects (Irritation to skin and eyes) |
| 2 / 3 / 6 | - | - | |
Litter picking across the borough | Physical exertion (Exhaustion, injury) |
| 1 / 3 / 3 | - | - | |
Litter picking across the borough | Children litter picking |
| 2 / 3 / 6 | - | - | |
Litter picking across the borough | Aggressive people |
| 3 / 1 / 3 | - | - | |
Litter picking across the borough | Aggressive dogs |
| 2 / 3 / 6 | - | - | |
Litter picking across the borough | COVID-19 Exposure | Litter pickers or members of public |
| 2 / 3 / 6 | - | - |
Other risks (please detail) | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Notes
Follow the general principles of prevention for health and safety:
Can the risk be avoided or removed?
If not, what precautions can be taken to reduce the risk, so far as is reasonably practicable? Evaluate that risk in a risk assessment.
Can the risk be combated at source? i.e. can safer equipment be purchased?
Has the work been adapted to the individual? (work design and its potential effect on health)
Has advantage been made of technical safety improvements?
Can the dangerous be replaced by a less dangerous method or equipment, without creating any fresh hazards?
Is there an overall coherent prevention policy on technology, organisation of work, conditions, relationships and other work environmental factors? Has priority been given to collective protection measures to all staff over individual measures?
Has adequate information, instruction and training been given? Is there supervision?