Am I right asking if a risk assessment is needed

[geordieboy123]

Following our revision in an SPDO frames have been moved around to accommodate 164 new dwellings. On one of the frames they’ve put an extra wing on which encroaches on the main walkway of the office and has narrowed the space especially when parcels are put round the frame. Am I right asking the Area Safety Rep if a risk assessment has been carried out? only he’s saying that it doesn’t need one and actually humiliated me in front of colleagues when he appeared unannounced this morning.

[yellowbelly]

Following our revision in an SPDO frames have been moved around to accommodate 164 new dwellings. On one of the frames they’ve put an extra wing on which encroaches on the main walkway of the office and has narrowed the space especially when parcels are put round the frame. Am I right asking the Area Safety Rep if a risk assessment has been carried out? only he’s saying that it doesn’t need one and actually humiliated me in front of colleagues when he appeared unannounced this morning.

Your office should have risk assessments somewhere already (good luck with finding them). If there has been
a change the risk assessment should be reviewed and if the ASR decides no further action is required due to the
change the review should be recorded and the fact that no further action is deemed necessary
(names and signatures on official records tend to concentrate people's minds!). If there is a RA already
it might say that parcels are not be placed around frames, so this should not be happening.

You have a responsibility for Health and Safety as an employee and quite rightly you've raised this, but you
should now raise this with line management as they have the responsibility for the workplace.

The ASR and/or management might be trying to avoid the issue if there are less than five employees
in the SPDO as written risk assessments don't appear to be compulsory if there are less than five employees
(see the HSE Guide to Controlling Risks in the Workplace): https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg163.htm

Also a quote from that document:

Regularly review your risk assessment
Few workplaces stay the same. Sooner or later, you will bring in new equipment,
substances and procedures that could lead to new hazards. So it makes sense to
review what you are doing on an ongoing basis, look at your risk assessment again
and ask yourself:
˜˜ Have there been any significant changes?
˜˜ Are there improvements you still need to make?
˜˜ Have your workers spotted a problem?
˜˜ Have you learnt anything from accidents or near misses?
Make sure your risk assessment stays up to date.

[POSTMAN]

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Royal Mail & CWU Indoor Work Method Guidance Version 1 February 2012

You need to get hold of LTB 104/12

[yellowbelly]

If you can't get that one also try last years:

LTB 496/20 – Royal Mail and CWU National Guidelines/Checklist – Delivery Internal Logistics – (Floor Plans)

Version 2 of the document Postman refers to is listed as an attachment:

https://www.cwu.org/ltb/ltb-496-20-roya ... oor-plans/