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  by Richard Brown 1 year ago

  No problem being long winded, it's your wall.
  
  Did you know there was a Ranting Group on the site. That can be good for getting things off your chest. Of course if we think you are mad we may not let you back out of the Group and on to the rest of the site :)
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  by Richard Brown 1 year ago

  Risk Assessments should not, in my opinion, have a Safety Advisor/Safety Manager signature or name on them. Risk management is a line managers role and it should be their name on the RA. A safety advisor gives advice, training in risk assessment, audits compliance, and maybe facilitates an RA, i.e. helps a manager or similar through the process, BUT the manager owns it.
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  by james o'gorman 1 year ago

  stick to the letter. when it goes wrong. the mess will hit you!!
  keep pressing with the training of staff. do you have H&S meetings?
  james o'gorman
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  by Gerry McCormick 1 year ago

  Hi folks, I have been working as a health and safety officer for a SME(300 employees) for the last 4 months, I was brought in to help the current H&S Manager. This is largest company I have worked in, within a H&S Role.
  
  I have several Questions
  When I did the Risk Assessments for people working in Offices I included training for Working at Height for the engineers, who have to use ladders to access the light fittings / sprinkler system / smoke alarms.
  Also DSE Assessments for those using DSE daily.
  
  I was told the RA’s looked as if the place was in chaos and he changed them taking out the W@H and DSE recommendations saying it had been done, I asked the training officer and they never issued any W@H training and DSE assessments haven’t been done in over 3 years. The RA still has my name on it.
  
  On existing RA’s done by Shift managers before I started all mention the need for Manual Handling Training. The H&S manager stated it was done within the past 3 yrs and does not need to be done again.
  A lot of the staff are new and they are performing MH Tasks Daily, the training he provided was short talk and loads of new posters.
  
  They don’t use the Permit to Work system except for Welding. I have been told they don’t need to, as RS and Method Statements are enough.
  
  There is not one RA with the H&S managers name on it.
  
  Because I am new I keep getting told I don’t know enough, I have 2 years experience in Small businesses (20-30 employees), and have been providing training to businesses for over 2 yrs.
  
  I feel like I am just a puppet for the existing H&S Manager.
  
  Getting confused!!!!!! I want experience, but good experience not someone who just wants to tick the boxes, just need to get it off my chest. Wife sick listening to me!
  
  Sorry for being so long winded……………….

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