Description
Hazards:
- Slips, trips and falls
- Falls from height while working from ladders or steps.
- Dropping of work equipment onto persons below.
- Manual handling
- Incorrect techniques (stretching, stooping, twisting) – while lifting / handling cleaning equipment and materials.
- Individuals with health conditions, previous or existing injuries affecting ability to safely handle / lift items.
- Electrical equipment
- Incorrect storage of cleaning materials
- Incorrect use or application of chemical cleaning substances
- Hot / cold and wet weather
- Contact with bodily fluids excreted by human.
- Contact with bodily fluids excreted by animals involving exterior / interior areas of school grounds.
- Vehicles present on site encountering pedestrians depositing rubbish into skips / bins.
- Sharp objects
- Hazardous substances
- Flying objects
- Glass (waste and broken)
