If we look at HSE statistics we should be asking ourselves if basic compliance is enough. With 215 new cases of Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome in 2023, I guess we should be saying NO!
Compliance should be the absolute minimum everyone looks to achieve, that’s why at SIXIS Technology we deliver accurate tool and activity specific data to allow our clients to make the correct informed decisions and drive to achieve ALARP or better!
The aim of the risk assessment is to help you decide what you need to do to ensure the health and safety of your employees, with the specific data within the HAVSPRO reporting platform users can see and identify specific areas of concern and create meaningful risk assessments that clearly state what element of any task causes risk.
The HSE state that your risk assessment should:
- Identify where there might be a risk from vibration and who is likely to be affected;
- Contain a reasonable estimate of your employees’ exposures, and;
- Identify what you need to do to comply with the law e.g. whether vibration control measures are needed, and, if so, where and what type; and
- Identify any employees who need to be provided with health surveillance and whether any are at particular risk.
You must record the findings of your risk assessment. You need to record in an action plan anything you identify as being necessary to comply, setting out what you have done and what you are going to do, with a timetable and saying who will be responsible for the work.
HAVSPRO allows managers to see the exact exposure values, which tools are being used, record which consumables are being used, record actions taken and, importantly, identify exactly where the vibration is coming from and therefore plan the work around facts using the accurate data created during the ongoing use of the HAVSPRO system, in turn providing enough accurate data to create a risk assessment and method statement which allows protects both business and employee’s.
