Risk Assessment

[Dave J]

Hi I'm a new boy on here, I am currently trying to gather the mountings of paperwork and info required for MCS Accreditation for solar PV.
I have a 2.82kWp roof mounted PV system to install for inspection.
I am preparing a Health and Safety/Risk Assessment, can anyone help with the electrical side of this identifying and controlling the risks.
An example would be great.
 
Who said it would be easy!!!
 
Cheers Davej

[daftlad]

I just googled MCS pv risk assessment and you are top of the list on another forum.  ..... dam...
Did you not get an example as part of your pv college course?
I hate risk assessments me, reading them makes sense but when it comes to writing them by brain turns to mush.
ta ta

[itsnewtome]

We decided to pay a local guy to do ours. He has produced a booklet which covers everything we do and if required to show it we can simply change the names and dates.
Personally the mere mention of H&S or risk assesment sends me off.
Why drive yourself mad with H&S when someone else can do it.

[GavinA]

Hi I'm a new boy on here, I am currently trying to gather the mountings of paperwork and info required for MCS Accreditation for solar PV.
I have a 2.82kWp roof mounted PV system to install for inspection.
I am preparing a Health and Safety/Risk Assessment, can anyone help with the electrical side of this identifying and controlling the risks.
An example would be great.
 
Who said it would be easy!!!
 
Cheers Davej

I'm currently doing the same thing... I'd be happy to swap notes with you.

[Fintray]

Davej

For any risk assessment all you are doing is identifying the hazards that could forseeably cause injury and assessing the severity of the hazards against the likelihood of it happening to arrive at a risk rating.
I.E. Electrocution caused by accidental damage to cables - severity would be high (as possible death) and the likelihood may also be high (as cables could be easily accessed) but your mitigation to this hazard is to put the cables in conduit. So the severity may still be high as if you did contact the cables death could result but the likelihood would be low.
Most risk assessments use a matrix (3x3 5x5 etc) to rate their risks.

[Alan]

Here is a typical risk assessment

Link here.


http://steamboilers.homecall.co.uk/R1.doc

It can be configured more user friendly if you are only doing one type of job.

Regards

Alan

[Dave J]

Thanks all for your input can never have to much info.

Gavin, I would be more than happy to exchange notes with you Im sure we could be very helpful to each other.

citydss@hotmail.co.uk

Regards

Dave