Question :

Safety World Ltd is a new company that employs 110 people and provides contracting carpentry services to several organisations throughout the country. Some employees have recently been injured and/or suffered ill-health while working on customer's premises.

The Human Resource Manager of the company has decided to review the overall risk assessment exercise. As a safety and health officer you have been asked to advise and assist the Management in this risk assessment exercise.

(a) Describe the factors that should be considered while carrying out the risk assessment exercise.

(b) Explain in which situations should a risk assessment be reviewed?

(c) Identify five major hazards which the carpenters are likely to be exposed. For each hazard explain how they may be harmed and provide the control measures that should be implemented to reduce the risk to a level which is as low as reasonably practicable.

(d) Outline the provision of the Occupational Safety & Health Act 2005 with regard to risk assessment.

(e) Identify three options for reducing risk due to the exposure to dangerous parts of a wood cutting machine.