Risk Assessment & Safe Systesm Of Work

Whitelee Wind F build up is a stinting Power facilities situated on Eaglesham Moor, both(prenominal) 17 miles from Glasgow city centre. This is the largest wind farm in Europe boasting 140 wind turbines.Scottish Power have maintain a guided tour of this site, where visitors are shown the turbines and the many ponds that a send throughout the site.Some of the water from the ponds is utilize to supply the surrounding area with drinking water. Scottish water who previously owned the moor stipulated that pollution of the water course was not acceptable, and if Scottish Power were to introduce a tour then a pollution free method acting of transport was postulate.Scottish military group purchased one of three electric plentyes which were built for Strathclyde Public Transport (SPT) by Smiths Electric Vehicles. SPT never do full use of these buses.The bus used on the Whitelee site is powered by 54 ternary acid gel batteries, arranged in cardinal parallel banks of 27. These batter ies are located within the bus chassis.Mechanically the bus is a standard design, with the typical front wishbone and rear trailing arm suspension. The braking system is air over hydraulic, incorporating an air activated spring loaded fail safe lay brake.It is the power-train that is powered by the lead acid gel batteries and the ancillary systems are powered by two 12V heavy duty commercial vehicle batteries which connected in series will give the required 24V to power the ancillary systems,Table 1 shows the power requirements and consumption rates of these components.Risk AssessmentThe adjacent pages incorporate a hazard checklist, risk assessment and safe systems of rub down for the use of the bus at the Whitelee facility.The hazard checklist was completed to form a qualitative risk assessment highlighting the where and why an hazard was likely to occur.The information gathered from the checklist was then used to compile the risk assessment.The risks were classified according the likeliness of occurrence and the severity of the possible injury.The risks were scored from 1 to 25, where 1 shows there is no inherent risk twisty in the task, and 25 shows this task to be highly dangerous and could result in fatal or debilitating injury. The risk chronicle has a copy of the scoring mechanism at the bottom of the page.From this a Safe System of Work was complied to sever as an aid memoir. This highlight the salient points of the risk register to ensure risk of injury is kept to a minimum.Safe System of WorkIn store any Safe System of Work, the following steps give a good example of what points imply to be reviewed.* The tasko What is the work being carried outo What specialist tools are usedo Who will do the task* Hazards associated with the tasko From toolingo From plant and other equipmento From substances* Risk Assessmento Assess risks arising from the task* Define a safe method of worko Break task down into individual partso Specify safe methodo Produ ce documented work instructions* Implementation & operationo Ensure members of faculty carrying out the task are adequately trainedo Record trainingo Carryout unbendable checks and re-assess as appropriateIn the case of the bus, I have identified two different tasks, the scratch line being the daily concern, the other being the actually driving of the bus on the tour.The hazards associated with the tasks are bloodsucking on which task is being carried out.The following pages are exemplar Safe Systems of Work for the daily maintenance of the bus and for driving the bus on a tour.