Electrical Risk Assessments

Hazardous Areas & Situations

  • Confined spaces

  • Fire on site

  • Fragile roofs

  • Roadways

  • Working adjacent to water

  • Working at heights

  • Working near to overhead power lines

  • Working near to underground services

  • Site Materials

  • Working alone

  • Isolating Electrical Circuits

  • Working in occupied premises

  • Electrical work not exceeding 415 volts

  • Working in roof spaces

  • Working with hot pitch

  • Working with oxygen or acetylene

  • Working with sewage

  • Working with glass panels

  • Staff Personal Conduct

  • Site trespassers

  • Working in schools

  • Working on tiled or slated roofs

  • Trainees in the Workplace

  • Rooms containing generators

  • Rooms containing batteries

  • Rooms containing high voltage equipment

  • Driving at Work

  • Slips, trips and falls

  • Manual Handling (lifting and carrying)

  • Hot Works

  • Transient Overvoltages

Installation Methods

  • Working with Batteries

  • Cable pulling

  • Excavations

  • Plumbing work

  • Testing and commissioning

  • Trunking and tray

  • Installation of lamps and tubes

  • Lifting of loads by sling

  • Site electrical supplies

  • Chasing walls

  • Demolition work

  • Electric arc welding

  • Lifting operations

  • Site management

  • Replacement of lamps and tubes

  • Fire alarm testing

  • Working with Solar PV panels

  • Working Solar Thermal panels

  • Lightning Protection.

 Hazardous Substances

  • Asbestos

  • Discharge lamps

  • Flammable liquids

  • Insulating material (non asbestos)

  • Lead

  • LPG

  • PCB

  • Site materials

  • Solvents and cleaning fluids

 

Plant 

  • Cartridge operated tools

  • Chasing machine

  • Compressors and pneumatic tools

  • Disk cutters

  • Excavators

  • Hand tools

  • Stepladders

  • Ladders

  • Lifting equipment

  • Mobile cranes

  • Mobile elevating platforms (MEWP)

  • Mobile tower scaffolding

  • Portable electrical equipment

  • Scaffolding (fixed)

  • Skips

  • Trestles

  • Company vehicles on site

  • Hoists

  • Site offices

  • Site thread cutting machines

  • Chain saws

  • Working with noisy equipment

  • Circular saws

  • Abrasive wheels

  • Debris chutes

  • Dumper trucks

  • Electrical generators

  • Festoon lighting

  • Use of HIABS

  • Vibrating tools

  • Hand tools