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SUSSEX DOWNS COLLEGE

RISK ASSESSMENT OF(Activity): Brickwork Practical Activities LOCATION (campus/room): Brickwork (Eastbourne)

ASSESSED BY: Kevin Diett, Eugene Martin & Vicki Ford-Smith DATE: 18 Nov 2010 AGREED BY: ………………………………..…………… DATE: …………

What are the Who might be harmed Current control - What further action is necessary? Action by Action by Done hazards? and how? what are we already doing? whom? when?

Manual Handling of Who: Staff & Students  Mandatory manual handling and lifting  Manual Handling tasks CL materials. This may training for staff require assessments be repetitive How: Back injuries  Students are demonstrated the correct  3 year refresher manual movements manual handling technique at induction handling training required  Students are supervised when manual  Bricks are currently not HM / PS handling to ensure that the correct technique being dried because the is used heating system is not  Spot boards are raised to easy working currently working height  Electric pallet truck used to move pallets and pug skips  Loadveyor attachment on pug mill  Bricks/blocks stock to be stored in covered areas to prevent taking on water  Deliveries to be organised to prevent repetitive movement  Sharing of manual handling tasks to prevent one person completing the whole task  Barrows available and lifting aids to be used where appropriate Projectile brick Who: Staff & Students  Specified cutting zones for brick cutting  Risk assessment will be CL & RFA fragments resulting  Safety goggles (EN 166 B standard) worn required when the brick saw from cutting and How: Eye injuries when cutting and trimming bricks arrives trimming bricks  Continued monitoring and supervision of students to ensure that they are wearing the goggles provided Electrocution from Who: Staff & Students  Equipment tested by competent persons on a  Brickwork staff to maintain CL portable electrical regular basis electrical equipment equipment How: Burns or fatal  110v equipment in use inventory and ensure that injuries from faulty equipment is available equipment during testing period

Inexperienced Who: Students  1st Year under 16 year old student are students getting required to wear eye protection while working mortar in their eyes How: Irritation to eyes in workshops when laying bricks from contact  Continued monitoring and supervision of or unloading onto students to ensure that they are wearing the the spot board goggles provided  Students are advised at induction that throwing mortar will result in suspension from the course Operating pan Who: Staff  Mill is fully guarded and guards in place  Regular electrical inspection Estates mixer and during operation and testing loadveyor How: Crushing,  Mill is only used by trained staff entrapment, entanglement in the conveyor  Maintenance carried out by contractor annually  Daily/weekly checks by staff to check for obvious damage  If damage is observed, equipment is to be taken out of use immediately  Risk assessment and method statement completed for the cleaning of the pan mixer and loadveyor Contact with Who: Students & Satff  Risk of dermatitis or lime/cement burns and  Training and information for CL to hazardous precaution explained to all students and staff staff on how to treat discuss substances eg. How: Contact dermatitis with Safety  Washing facilities with hot and cold water, exposure mortar and burns. Team soap and basin large enough to wash forearms, available adjacent to workshop.  COSHH risk assessments completed for all hazardous chemicals  First aid kits contain emergency saline eyewash 20ml pods  Students provided with gloves  Barrier cream provided in welfare facilities

Dust from cutting Who: Students & Staff  Dry sweeping not permitted  Supervision and monitoring CL bricks or blocks and How: Dust exposure could  Industrial vacuum cleaners are used of sweeping techniques dried mortar cause silicosis  Workshop cleaning schedule and checklist being implemented

Slips and trips Who: Staff & Students  Importance of housekeeping discussed with How: Sprains and students fractures if they trip over  Staff and students wear safety footwear waste  Designated walkways within workshop area  Workshop cleaning schedule and checklist being implemented  Good housekeeping is instilled at every lesson Noise from use of Who: Staff & Students  Hearing defenders worn during specified  Regular inspection checks CL equipment, eg activities to be introduced. angle grinder, pug How: Hearing loss.  Continued monitoring and supervision of mill and cement students by staff to ensure that they are mixer using hearing protection.  Pug mill and cement mixer is only used by staff Vehicle movement Who: Staff, Students &  Speed limit on college campus  Maintain pedestrian Estates in road to Brickwork Visitors  Specified pedestrian walkways on approach walkways workshop (including CL road to workshop  Hi vis jacket to be worn by deliveries) or How: Injuries resulting the pallet truck operator powered pallet from a collision with a  Staff to act as “banksman” during unloading truck being vehicle or powered pallet and reversing activities operated in the truck  Pallet truck only operated by staff that have workshop had a suitable level of training Electrocution from Who: Staff & Students  Equipment tested by competent persons on a  Brickwork staff to maintain CL portable electrical regular basis electrical equipment equipment How: Burns or fatal  110v equipment in use inventory and ensure that injuries from faulty equipment is available equipment during testing period Use of hand tools Who: Staff & Students  Tools are visually inspected at the start of  Tool inspection list being CL How: Injury resulting from each practical session implemented incorrect use of hand  Students are trained before using hand tools tools or use of damaged and are instructed to carry out a visual check tools before use  Any damaged tools are removed from use immediately

Demolition of Who: Staff & Students  Students are instructed to take down models models How: Bricks falling onto in a careful manner feet  All personnel to be wearing safety boots when in the workshop  Appropriate staff to assist students when taking down models when required#  Students provided with gloves for handling materials Falling objects Who: Staff & Students  Workshop is designated as a Protective landing on feet How: crushing, cuts, Footwear (steels toe caps) zone bruises, fractures  Students informed at induction that they must wear safety boots at all time when working in the workshop  Brickwork department keep a small selection of boots for students that have forgotten their boots  Students without boots will not be allowed into the practical areas  Materials not stacked too hight Dusty environment Who: Staff & Students  Dry sweeping is prohibited. Brooms may be  Annual deep-clean CL used to push debris around but not be used  Cleaning rota to be How: Spread of germs, to sweep implemented dust inhalation  Industrial vacuum cleaners used  Students or staff with breathing difficulties to be identified and to have personal risk assessment completed. Control measures from this risk assessment to be implemented where possible  Debris from demolishing model to be scraped together into a heap using the trowel and disposed in the barrow Welfare and first Good facilities help to  Hot and cold water, soap, towels, skin cream aid prevent dermatitis etc and full size wash basin  Washroom provided to allow students to wash hands and forearms  Toilet facilities provided in Park building