Why can’t I access this page? All I get is this:
But that was on desktop?
shrug the link was coppied on the desktop, and it works for me.
It opened in Chrome, perhaps I have a duff setting somewhere because my Edge account is used on phone and browser?
Yep, that was it, I was on ‘mobile view’ apparently. The setting is hidden away bottom right.
Just what an oppo said fell out of the RA course they attended yesterday. And the notes promulgated by our Wgs HSO last month.
Interesting that the IBN doesn’t say said dates. I shall therefore go with the published policy document!!
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New response from CESO via RCN on VoV.
Acronym-tastic.
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So - question for those here - what do we think about this. A risk assessment for an activity that isn’t self contained - i.e. it has a line at the top which references policy document which contains the GRA and just states which serials from the GRA.
Then further controls have been added.
So they’ve not taken the GRA in it’s entirety and amended it - but referenced it within the RA itself.
Personally it makes me uncomfortable as all of the hazards & controls are not listed in one place.
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Agreed
If an activity commander only has access to the primary activity RA and not immediate access to the GRAs how are they mitigating the GRA risks.
I don’t like that either. Using the GRA is good practice, but only by adopting the GRA completely or by incorporating the whole GRA and then adapting as required for your activity. The published RA for the activity should be a stand alone document.
I don’t think that’s intrinsically wrong. You might reference a manual handling risk assessment rather than listing (again) all the manual handling controls you put in. Same with transporting people in vehicles.
I personally prefer to keep separate the different activities so that when updating it is cleaner and doesn’t mean you need to update the same thing 3 times.
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That’s fair when you’re adopting the whole manually handling RA, but if the new RA only references bits of it, that could get confusing I’d suggest.
There’s referencing an RA though as @grounded says (i.e. in the top right hand box of the old form) which implies you are complying with it in its entirety.
This appears at least to just be a shortcut bacuase the author didn’t want to copy & paste or amend the GRA.
It means that any reviewer or staff on the activity does not have access to the majority of controls for the activity unless they go and dig out the GRA from the policy document on Sharepoint - which I’d hazard most would be unwilling / not bothered to do.
So, would you fail this in an audit? What policy would you point to?
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I would say if they have referenced the GRA and not included it in their application, then yes I would fail the audit on the basis they haven’t submitted the correct paperwork for that activity. ACP5? Or ACTO10? One of the two surely mentions this.
You’d think so wouldn’t you. There’s nothing I can see that says the activity RA should be self-contained. The only possible thing I could link it to is the stipulation that the contents of the RA must be communicated to those involved in the activity - which you can’t possibly do if all you have is the RA on SMS which includes the first line which says ‘such and such GRA serials 1,5,9.12.15,24’ or similar.
I was sure there was something that listed what was required to be submitted for an activity though? Is it maybe in the relevant ACATIs instead?
It says a risk assessment for the activity… which they have provided.
It’s the risk assessment suitability / sufficiency which is at question and there doesn’t seem to be much in our HSEP policy which you can judge it against. There is an implication that you take the GRA and add/remove as you see fit.
I don’t agree with it personally - but in an audit it’s not my personal opinion - I’m looking to point at black and white policy that has not been complied with.
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head there.
Our HS&EP policy is so loose with regards to running activities. My TSA was previously insisting that there should be only one RA applied to an event, with every single activity included into the single RA, resulting in a huge document.
Would you be happier with them referencing serials from the GRA if they uploaded the GRA to the sms event, and also had a print out with them on the event?
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Yes, I would I think. In my mind it would be tidier (and clearer for everyone involved) if the RA for the activity (walking, climbing, shooting, whatever) deals with all the risks for that activity in one document.
I have no particular feeling against multiple RAs for an event (e.g. a DofE event having separate walking, camping, stoves RAs) as I more than understand the administrative benefits this has. However in my experience (from an approval perspective) multiple RAs often result in people duplicating hazards between them and applying different controls in each document. Then it gets a bit dubious…which set of controls are you working towards? Is everyone sure what they are following?
As for a printout - that’s up to the activity commander how (and when) they communicate the contents. I’m less convinced by the ‘brief from your RA’ argument as if you brief everything in that RA you will over-face the participants and they will not remember half of what you’ve just told them. There is a reason the industry uses simple briefing models for participants - e.g MYABCDE - becuase people only remember the last couple of things you told them. The risks are managed and controls implemented by the leader as you progress in the activity.
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