RISK ASSESSMENT FOR (COMPANY NAME)

1 RISK ASSESSMENT FOR ( company name ): ADDRESS: CONTACT: ASSESSMENT UNDERTAKEN BY AQUARIUS CLEANING SERVICES ( ) LTD. DATE: 01/08 SIGNED: _____. DATE: 02/08 ASSESSMENT REVIEW (DATE): 02/09. LIST LIST GROUPS LIST EXISTING CONTROLS OR WHAT PUTTING ASSESSMENT INTO. SIGNIFICANT OF PEOPLE ACTION. WHERE INFORMATION MAY BE FURTHER. HAZARD WHO ARE AT. RISK FROM FOUND. LIST ANY ACTION NEEDED. ACTION IS. HAZARDS NEEDED. IDENTIFIED. Slip hazard Clients, Staff trained and inducted. Mandatory Regular Action By: MB/PJ. on wet visitors and wet floor signs have to be placed visits by Action By: Jan 08. floors our staff before the wet floor area to warn managers at Done: people of the danger. More than one client's Jan 08. wet floor sign must be used if access premises to the wet area comes from more than one point.

2 Can also use a verbal warning to people if floor is wet. Info found in the red file in cleaner's cupboard. Trip hazard Clients, Staff trained and inducted. No cables Regular Action By: MB/PJ. from visitors and to be trailed across doorways or stairs. visits by Action By: Jan 08. electrical our staff Extension cables to be used where managers at Done: cables needed. Staff to verbally warn other clients Jan 08. (vacuums) people if vacuum cable across a premises doorway. Hazard signs provided for contracts for staff to cover trailing cables. Info found in the red file in the cleaners cupboard. Trip hazard Clients, Staff trained and inducted. Our Health Regular Action by: from refuse visitors and and safety rules state that our staff are visits by MB/PJ.

3 Sacks or our staff not to leave work equipment or refuse managers at When: other sacks in doorways or on stairs and to clients Jan 08. equipment place these items away from high premises. Done: traffic areas. Info found in the red file Jan 08. in cleaner's cupboard. Use of Our staff Staff trained and inducted. Our Regular Action By MB/PJ. cleaning cleaning chemicals are clearly visits by Action By: Jan 08. chemicals labelled. Colour coding cloths for managers at Done: washrooms and kitchens to avoid clients Jan 08. cross contamination of germs or premises. cleaning chemicals. Details to be found in Red file in cleaners cupboard. All staff to wear gloves (supplied by us). Any chemicals needing COSHH. regs, to be separately assessed and listed in Red file.

4 AQUARIUS CLEANING SERVICES ( ) LTD CONTRACT: List List groups LIST EXISTING CONTROLS OR What Putting ASSESSMENT into Significant of people WHERE INFORMATION MAY BE further Action Hazard who are at FOUND. LIST ANY ACTION NEEDED. action is risk from needed the hazards identified Removal of Our staff Staff trained and inducted. Not to Regular Action by: full refuse overfill refuse sacks and to only carry visits by MB/PJ. sacks a weight they are comfortable with. If manager to When full refuse sacks have to be carried clients Jan 08. down or up stairs to a disposal point, premises Done the sacks must be carried only one at a Jan 08. time, with one hand holding a stair rail. Use of Our staff, Staff trained and inducted.

5 Electrical Regular Action by electrical Clients and items not to be handled with wet visits by MB/PJ. equipment Visitors. hands. manager to When Please also refer to section in this clients Jan 08. ASSESSMENT on trip hazards (cables). premises Done Jan 08. Cleaning of Our staff, Staff trained and inducted. Stairs to Regular Action By: MB/PJ. Stairs Clients and be vacuumed with great care, or visits by When: Visitors. brushed using dustpan and brush manager to Jan 08. (where it is not safe to vacuum). Mop clients Done: buckets to be placed at the bottom of premises Jan 08. stairs carrying the mop only up the stairs. Please also refer to section in this ASSESSMENT to slip hazards (hazard floor cleaning signs).

6 Carrying Our Staff, Staff trained and inducted. Vacuums Regular Action By: Heavy Clients and and mop buckets supplied on each visits by MB/PJ. equipment Visitors floor of a building where possible. manager to When: up and Otherwise staff trained to carry clients Jan 08. down stairs vacuums in 2 sections body of vac premises Done: Hoover, first and then tubes and vacuum head Jan 08. mop & section in 2 trips up and down stairs. bucket Mop buckets to be carried empty only up and down stairs. Mop itself to be carried separately or in the empty mop bucket. Working Our staff Staff trained and inducted. High Regular Action by Outdoors visibility waistcoats provided where visits by MB/PJ. (walking staff are walking across lorry parks or managers to When across car warehouse premises.)

7 Follow marked clients Jan 08. parks and pathways at all times. premises Done between Jan 08. buildings). Aquarius Cleaning Services (NW) Ltd Contract: List List groups List existing controls or where What Putting ASSESSMENT into significant of people information may be found. List any further action hazard who are at action needed. action is risk from needed the hazards identified Collecting Our Staff Staff trained and inducted. Crockery Regular Action by Crockery, to be collected and placed in a bucket visits to MB/PJ. Glassware to be transferred down the stairs from clients When & cutlery upper offices. Separate journey premises by Feb 08. required to collect glassware. manager. Done Buckets not to be overfilled leaving Feb 08.

8 One hand free for the handrail when going downstairs. Key Our staff Staff are inducted and trained for key Regular Action by holding holding premises. The information on visits to MB/PJ. keyholding can be found in the red file client's When in the cleaners cupboard. premises by Feb 08. manager Done Feb 08. Sole Our Staff Staff are inducted and trained for sole Regular Action by Working working this includes notifying a visits to MB/PJ. friend or relative when and where they client's When will be working each day. premises by Feb 08. Information can be found in the red manager Done file in the cleaners cupboard. Feb 08.