For my sins I've volunteered myself as ORPC's Health and Safety Officer
Apparently we do have some form of Risk Assessments somewhere but there whereabouts and equally the quality of said documents is in doubt.
Anyway I was wondering if anyone has a similar responsiblity at their club and may have some Risk Assessments that they feel are any good??
Any assistence would be appreciated
Alan
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Ooman, we stopped taking risk assessments seriously after a ikkle incident in Mesopotamia put them in perspective. Pull up a sandbag and we'll explain...
We were advancin' on an objective and came under heavy fire from some little sheet heads. As per SOPs, we, being the carrier of the GPMG, dropped to one knee and unleashed a full 200 round belt of 1B1T in the general direction of the incoming unpleasantness. We then dropped onto our belt buckle, fed our second belt and continued to unleash fire, noise and destruction onto the sheet heads. By the time we had expended our second belt and started to feed our third and final belt of bangs, the rest of the patrol had gone safely to ground and were starting to provide the covering fire we needed to scurry across the track we were on and sink into the marsh alongside it. We called out for resup and a few seconds later a trooper came belting across the track to us, bullets pinging off the ground at his heels and whistling overhead, and splashed down alongside, bearing three more belts of badness.
"Freekin' 'ell, Boss," he said, "Did you do a risk assessment before getting me to run through that lot? "
"Yes," we said. "We decided it was freekin' risky out there, so we got you to bring the ammo instead of us fetching it."
For the next 30 second or so we both were paralytic with laughter, and we doubt any of our first resup belt went anywhere near the sheet heads...
Badger
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Seriously though, perhaps try another club, or the NRA, or BASC or something. Either way, get some proper advice and check your insurance requirements too.
safetyfirst wrote:Seriously though, perhaps try another club, or the NRA, or BASC or something. Either way, get some proper advice and check your insurance requirements too.
Yep I'm already in contact with Iain at the NRA, I have my first committee meeting on Thursday so hopefully I'll get to see what we have. The insurance company was my next port of call..
Badger at least you didn't get your stripey hide shot off because that would have caused loads of paper work for someone
Alan
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