Tree Friends - Risk assessment important information
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Take reasonable care to look after your own health and safety and to safeguard the health and safety of other people.
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Ensure that you have contacts’ phone numbers in your mobile phone in case of emergency but call emergency services in the first instance if there is an immediate threat to life.
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Inform a contact of your exact location when working alone and your expected time in that location. Call the contact again when you have returned home.
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Always follow LBB health and safety guidance.
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Use tools, in accordance with any relevant safety instructions and training.
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Ensure that there is a first aid kit nearby in case of injury.
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Carry sufficient water for hydration and hygiene purposes or to wash hazardous substances from your body.
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Report all accidents, injuries, near-misses, and other dangerous occurrences as soon as is practicable to Jackie Baxter Environmental Campaigns Officer (tree.friends@bromley.gov.uk / 020 8464 3333).