RISK ASSESSMENT FOR PREPARING SHISHA PIPES FOR SMOKEING.
Workplace:
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Area to have sink close by with cold water.
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Non flammable work surface, for example, stainless or ceramic preparation area.
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Glass base bowl breaking (by dropping)
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Clay bowl breaking (while placing on the shisha pipe)
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Shisha Lite (Charcoal) falling onto body or floor area once lit.
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Germs spreading via the mouth tip.
Persons Exposed:
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Shisha Pipe employees setting up the shisha pipe
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Customers in 1 meter radius of the working shisha pipe
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Customers within 10 meters from passive smoking.
Existing Control Measures:
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Employ professional person to set up and distribute the shisha pipes
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Provide stainless tongs to handle the shisha lite charcoal.
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Provide mouth tips or foil for each person smoking the shisha pipe
Level of Risk:
m
Smoke in lungs (High risk of lung cancer)
m
People close by inhaling the smoke (Passive Smoking)
m
Further Control Measures/Actions Required:
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Customer smoking the shisha pipe does not move the location of the shisha pipe
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Customer is aware that smoking can damage your health
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Customers allow the shisha pipe server to reposition the shisha lite charcoal
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Tray provided with the shisha pipe to catch charcoal.
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Tin foil used around the clay bowl to protect shisha lite from falling.
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Wind cover to be used to stop falling charcoal or skin exposed to charcoal.
Assessment made by:
Paul Maxwell-King
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Night Club / College Date 2010 |
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Assessor :
Date of
review :
Paul Maxwell-King
2010
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1.
Activity or environment to be assessed :
Shisha Pipe Venue
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Hazards identified :
(indicate each as slightly harmful, harmful or extremely harmful)
Burns – Slightly Harmful.
Glass Breakage – Slightly Harmful,
Smoke inhalation – Extremely Harmful |
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3. Person exposed to the risk :
Client, Assistant and people in a 1 meter range of the shisha pipe.
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4. Specific factors affecting the risk :
Dancing near the shisha pipe
Moving the shisha pipe to a different location
Unstable positioning of the Shisha Pipe.
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5. Control measures in place at the time of assessment :
Site supervision, Personal Protective Equipment including wind cover
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6. Risk evaluation :
(Use risk matrix to choose from trivial, tolerable, moderate substantial or intolerable)
Burns – Minimal
General Client Hazards – Tolerable
Smoke inhalation - Tolerable
OVERALL RISK EVALUATION :
Low / Medium
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7. Further action necessary to control the risks identified :
Stone or tiled floor – Special Shisha Pipe smoking area – Herbal Molasses
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8. Persons responsible for implementing control measures :
The venue owner and the shisha pipe representative.
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9. Schedule for improvement :
No longer than 3 days |
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10. Comment :
Overall risk to clients and operatives – minimal.
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