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Hoping you can help me - as a club we are thinking of employing a part time keeper.

Does anyone know or have the Health and safety details that they go through in order to do so?

Alex

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What club - LADFFA?

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This is something you should draw up yourself. In doing so you will have a greater understanding of the problems and solutions involved with working in and by the side of running water and what you will be putting others through. We have a Fisheries Dept H/S manual but it is specific to Haddon and the Fisheries Dept team. The following can be some of the headings you can work around:

Working in water
Working with machines
Working with tools
Working with the public
Working with the weather

Your biggest problem might be the lone working; a big issue with the HSE. Your keeper must have his tickets for spraying and sawing and all PPE must be worn.
They must be briefed about not going near poachers without the aid of the Police.
Life jackets must be worn when wading in water over knee height (our own rule).

You're welcome to look at our stuff but as I said, you would be far better doing your own from scratch. We always have spaces on first aid courses and our annual health and safety day with Andrew Green and the Belvoir and Rockingham Estates. I'm sure your keeper could come along to those.
We can probably help with some of those tickets as well.

07801 457 225 if you need to talk more.

There is good advice on the HSE website around Risk Assessment. USe their generic five steps approach - there is an excellent framework. I use it when identifying site management issues at school - use Warren's suggested headings as a starting point and then build the process from there. It seems tedious - and it is - but mostly it is just common sense.

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Tedious it can be, common sense almost certainly. But, unfortunately, it seems that excitement can cause people to throw away common sense (always assuming it was there in the first place ;-) )

Identifying the risks and the ways in which they can be mitigated (the important follow-up stage) is a great way to focus people on what they are doing and how they should be doing it in the safest way - it's their health and welfare you're protecting. Don't go too far; have generic and site/situation/change specific rules as applicable, if necessary with a documented escalation process. I'm not sure how accountable clubs are as opposed to corporate bodies but ultimately people could be put at risk unnecessarily and there is insurance to pay as an employer.

This subject isn't just applicable to an employee - it also applies to voluntary working parties etc.

I haven't looked at the HSE site, but at work we classify risk (probability) and impact (no impact....hospital treatmeant...death) to determine relative scores to prioritise, then look at mitigation strategies.