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Safety information
Step 2: Decide who may be harmed and how
This might mean considering the particular risks that young workers or
trainees might face and thinking about the residents of the household or
visitors who could be hurt by your activities.
Step 3: Evaluate the risks and decide which precautions should be made.
You should consider how likely it is that each hazard will cause harm, de-
cide which precautions you might take and then assess, after you have
taken those precautions, whether the remaining risk will be high, medium
or low.Where you identify remaining risks, you should consider which
further action you could take to control the risks so thar harm is unlikely.
Step 4: Record your findings
If you have fewer than five employees you do not need to write anything
down, though it is useful to keep a written record of what you have done.
If you employ five or more people you must record the significant findings
of your assessment. You must also tell your employees about your fin-
dings. You need to be able to show that a proper check was made, that
you considered who might be affected, that you dealt with all the obvious
significant hazzards, that the precautions you propose are reasonable
and that the remaining risk is low.
Step 5: Review your assessment if necessary
Each solar Photovoltaic installation may bring its own challenges and
present its own particular hazards. You should therefore be careful no
to rely on a "standard" risk assessment for installing a solar Photovol-
taic system in a house, but at the preparation stage you should consider
where scaffold or other access equipament might be positioned and look
out for any obvious obstacles to this, such as a conservatory or porch.
In addition to the risks associated with work at height, you should also
consider the risks associated with lifting and carrying solar collectors,
using electric drills and using blow lamps or blow torches for soldering.
This is not an exclusive list and you should consider all aspects
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