Fragile Roof Risk Assessment

Risk assess the work including considering all specific hazards such as fragile roofs.

Fragile roof risk assessment.

This should be completed by a competent person as detailed below. Risk assessments are required for activities that may expose your workforce to hazards to assess how to reduce and control the risks as far as is reasonably practicable. These accidents usually occur on roofs of. Effective precautions must be taken for all work on or near fragile surfaces no matter how short the duration.

Do not undertake any roofwork painting or repairs yourself unless you are competent to do so. Working safely on fragile roofs. Many others suffer permanent disabling injury. The fragile roof risk assessment will give you a good indication of the hazards associated with the activity along with the risks and controls you should be thinking about.

This risk assessment should include. Therefore a key element of the risk assessment process and consequent planning is determining if the roof is deemed to be fragile. Inspection of the perimeter walls for warning notices review of any asbestos register where applicable visual inspection of the roof to determine the presence condition and extent of fragile materials and supports. Accidents can be avoided as long as suitable equipment is used and those carrying out the work are provided with adequate information training and supervision.

There is now a widely recognised test to show non fragility for a roofing assembly that has been drawn up by the acr and published in their red book and also detailed in hsg33. Select the most suitable work equipment for the job. On average 7 people are killed each year after falling through a fragile roof or fragile roof light.