Risk Assessment & Safe Systesm Of Work

Whitelee Wind Farm is a Scottish Power facilities situated on Eaglesham Moor, some 17 miles from Glasgow city centre. This is the largest wind farm in Europe boasting 140 wind turbines.Scottish Power bring forth antecede a guided tour of this site, where visitors are shown the turbines and the many ponds that a spread through come on the site.Some of the water from the ponds is wasting diseased to supply the ring area with drinking water. Scottish Water who previously owned the secure stipulated that pollution of the water course was not acceptable, and if Scottish Power were to introduce a tour then a pollution free manner of transport was required.Scottish power purchased one of three electric jalopyes which were create for Strathclyde Public Transport (SPT) by Smiths Electric Vehicles. SPT never made enough use of these buses.The bus used on the Whitelee site is powered by 54 lead story acid gel batteries, arranged in ii parallel banks of 27. These batteries are loc ated 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 ring loaded fail safe parking brake.It is the power-train that is powered by the lead acid gel batteries and the ancillary systems are powered by dickens 12V heavy duty commercial vehicle batteries which connected in serial will give the required 24V to power the ancillary systems,Table 1 shows the power requirements and consumption rates of these components.Risk AssessmentThe following pages incorporated a hazard checklist, risk assessment and safe systems of cash in ones chips 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 incident was likely to occur.The entropy ga on that pointd from the checklist was then used to compile the risk assessment.The risks were class ified tally the likelihood of occurrence and the cut backity of the possible injury.The risks were scored from 1 to 25, where 1 shows there is no inherent risk involved in the job, and 25 shows this proletariat to be highly dangerous and could result in fatal or debilitating injury. The risk register has a copy of the scoring utensil at the bottom of the page.From this a Safe System of control was complied to sever as an aid memoir. This highlight the salient points of the risk register to match risk of injury is kept to a minimum.Safe System of WorkIn compiling any Safe System of Work, the following travel give a good example of what points need to be reviewed.* The tasko What is the get 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 parts o Specify safe methodo Produce documented work instructions* Implementation & operationo Ensure members of staff carrying out the task are adequately trainedo Record didacticso Carryout regular checks and re-assess as appropriateIn the case of the bus, I have identified two different tasks, the first being the casual maintenance, the other being the actually driving of the bus on the tour.The hazards associated with the tasks are dependent on which task is being carried out.The following pages are instance Safe Systems of Work for the daily maintenance of the bus and for driving the bus on a tour.