Message Board - Health & Safety: Cricket Roller Risk Assessment
27 Apr 2009 by Lloyd Tilbury
Can anyone help.I have to write a Risk Assessment on the use of a Cricket roller and I am not sure were to start.Any ideas would be helpful.
Thanks
Turfdoctor
28 Apr 2009 by wicketdevil
The main risks are crush injurys, burns from hot engine parts, noise and vibration. Then work out how to lower the risks i.e. no engine running when operator out of seat,refuel only when engine cool, correct PPE and well maintained machinery. WD
Can you just is the longest sentence in the world !!!!!!!
28 Apr 2009 by OLDZIMMER
How about common sense. Has this now dissapeared
These health and safety guys in my opinion look for problems to keep them in a job.
If they look hard enough at anything they will find a problem!!
LOL
28 Apr 2009 by jontaylor
Common sense is surprisingly rare!
You need look no further than the number of people who use hand held mobile phones whilst driving.
I don't know anyone killed by a roller (but I believe it has happened).
I did know a chap who was killed because he was on his phone whilst driving.
The ciderman rolls
28 Apr 2009 by wicketdevil
People have been killed using rollers so surely everything that can stop that is worth trying. Although a risk assessment wont actualy stop injury it does allert operators to the dangers.
Can you just is the longest sentence in the world !!!!!!!
28 Apr 2009 by Vic Demain
A good friend of mine was killed when using a roller, he was one of the most sensible workers I have ever met. Accidents unfortunately happen when using machinery but most including the case I site are down to human error. A simple safety cut out if the operator left the seat would have helped on this occasion. Perhaps we all need to look at our working practises.
28 Apr 2009 by Mal
A risk assessment should be seen as part of an overall risk management policy for every one and how involved you as an employee are in the process depends how high up the management step ladder you are. How many people have carried out a risk assessment and then placed it on the shelf in a folder never to be looked at again. Probably more than you can imagine. There are two ways that you can get around this ensuring that those you manage are involved in the process
a). Assemble a risk assessment team to look at and get involved in the risk assessment process. This can be achieved by assigning them to carry out a risk assessment on your behalf where they would sign it and you would counter sign it.
b). You carry out the risk assessment but involve your team in the your findings i.e. if you state in your assessment that the overall assessment is low due to operator training then you need to ensure that this is the case and you have documented the training method and what was discussed.
c). Lone workers would be in tune with whatever assessments were carried out so will only need to adhere to there own findings whilst still being aware of those that may be around him/her while they are working.
Finally it is then down to ensuring that individually we go about our work with due regard to the safety of ourselves and those around us. And, of course managers need to ensure that the assessment is followed through.
In short we are all responsible for our own and each others safety and this cannot be delegated.
Geography is everywhere
28 Apr 2009 by jlawrence
Cut out on a roller when leaving the seat - no way. I often drive my roller stood up - get a more even tan that way :).
Of course there's no bounce, bend your back and put some bloody effort in.
28 Apr 2009 by tonybolton
Mines that slow the previous groundsman used to leave it to make its own way back to its shed while he finished painting the wicket and brushing up at the interval. Even with a barrow to push he always beat it back.
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother
28 Apr 2009 by trubs
Quite agree JL. In order to minimise clothing getting caught in moving parts and to get an even tan, I often Roll naked.
Not in March though.
28 Apr 2009 by jlawrence
LOL - naked, now that's a horrid thought considering most of the groundsmen I've met.
Of course there's no bounce, bend your back and put some bloody effort in.
28 Apr 2009 by trubs
I've just had another idea for a calender!
28 Apr 2009 by Vic Demain
And here was me thinking I made a serious point, obviously not.
28 Apr 2009 by lee@standish
tonybolton
Mines that slow the previous groundsman used to leave it to make its own way back to its shed while he finished painting the wicket and brushing up at the interval. Even with a barrow to push he always beat it back.
I believe that is what as happened previously. A groundsman got off his roller to pick something up from the wicket, misjudged his timings and sadly he got run over and killed.
The problem is sometimes that groundpersons / machine operators get to comfortable with their machinesand go into auto-pilot.
L.K.B
28 Apr 2009 by tonybolton
Lee, the errant groundsman is now a Station Officer in The Fire Brigade, hope his H & S knowledge has improved.
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother
29 Apr 2009 by lee@standish
that is good news
L.K.B
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