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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

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...

Excellent tale from the war of the sets.

Thread ruined.

Our take is simple.

Life is risky: apart from some apocryphal story about a chap called Jesus, no-one has survived it thus far. Crack on and hope for the best.

Pip pip.

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:Pip pip.

"Freekin' eck ! That brought back flashbacks of a Vauxhall Vectra bearin' down on us..."

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

Hi mate,
Drop me an email at strathrpc at yahoo.com and I'll send you a copy of ours for you to look at.

20series wrote:

safetyfirst wrote: The insurance company was my next port of call..


Alan

Alan,

is it a great idea to point out to our insurance company, that we may not have all the documents in place that they require in order to cover us?