Munchies is a small fast food restaurant (part of a major chain) which operates 7 days a week from 11 am until midnight. A few years ago they had a visit from their local County Council who required them to put a grease trap in place before releasing liquid waste to the mains sewer.
The grease trap (50 litre capacity) is topped up with approx 1 litre of DRAINEX every evening (just before closing) and stirred for 6 hours prior to release to the sewer. Last week a worker from overseas (English not his first language) was splashed in the eye with the solution and was taken to the Eye and Ear hospital where he was kept in overnight. He has not returned to work yet and nobody has heard from him. The HSA inspector has been in contact with the local manager and is looking for the chemical risk assessment and other relevant documents. The local manager has contacted head-quaters in Dublin for advice.
You work for corporate Munchies as a safety advisor.
1. Prepare a report for the Senior Management (in Ireland) advising him how to handle the situation and justify and explain what needs to be done.
50%
In appendices to your report include:
2. Chemical risk assessment of the process: – adding Drainex to the grease trap and ancillary activities
25%
3. You suggest that the chain should have a Chemicals policy in place. Provide an Index (what you think should be included in a chemicals policy) to such a policy. NOTE:- you do not have to prepare a policy
15%
Ensure that your chemical risk assessment complies with the SHWW(Chem Agents) Regulations 2001 as amended in 2015.
You can make reasonable assumptions in relation to the scenario.
4. Write a Personal Reflection on the process of undertaking this assignment.
10%
Prepare a briefing note for the manager outlining:-
(You should not answer each of these as individual questions in your report but you need to cover the answers as part of the report)
You need to refer to the SDS for Drainex.
The SHWW Chemical Agent Regulations 2001 as amended 2015 requires that an employer has a chemical risk assessment in place.
Briefing note
You will need to provide a briefing note advising and
1 Executive summary (see example):- non technical summary covering essential details and advice.
2 How to handle the current situation and care for the injured worker
3 How to achieve compliance with legislative requirements
4 What is required in terms of a defence in relation to civil liability
5 If you suggest additional controls: ensure that they are costed
6 What are the learnings for the company
7 Ensure that you do not imply liability within your briefing note
8 Do not personalise or offer opinion: – any advice is fact based.
9 Document control: signed, Private and confidential, indexed, appropriate use of headers, logical, and written in business English (appropriate syntax). ( see additional info supplied)
10 Ensure that you document is formatted (layout) correctly
(use of appropriate paragraphs and sections, Line adjusted, 1.5 spacing, font (only one) etc)
11 Use tables where appropriate
Chemical Risk assessment
Ensure that you do not confuse hazard and risk
Ensure that your chemical risk assessment is compliant with the requirements if IRISH legislation
Ensure that your risk assessment is appropriately formatted and understandable for the workers in Munchies
Ensure that your risk assessment will be easy to audit
Chemicals Policy
Provide and INDEX of the items you think should be included in a Chemicals Policy
A policy is essentially an outline of how chemicals are managed within the company (Corporate Munchies)
Consider the lifecycle of chemicals in an organisation where chemicals are ancillary to the main activity of the organisation.
Reflection
Personal reflection should outline what you learnt by undertaking this assignment: not the detail but more how your approach to the process of report writing and risk assessment has changed.
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