The cost of safety at Beltring could be determined by asking the organising committee to make available the Risk Assessments prepared for the show. These must exist because this would have been the starting point for any HSE involvement.
For those not familiar with the process it works like this:
An organisation (in this case the it will be the W&P sit down with a qualified risk assessor and undertake a brain storming exercise that should identify all credible hazards the qualified assessor will advise on what is credible and what is not based on national accident statistics relevant for the undertaking being assessed.
Next step is that the people/property/plant at risk due to the hazard is identified for each hazard listed.
The existing control if any is identified
The assessor will now assign a severity harm factor to each identified grouping, this is done in slightly different ways depending on who is constructing the risk assessment. Basically it works as follows it is either extremely harmful, harmful or slightly harmful. Guidance is given in the relevant HSE publication that deal with risk assessment, the levels run from loss of life down to a slight abrasion.
Now the likelihood of the event occurring is factored in from highly likely , likely , unlikely or highly unlikely
The risk category is now calculated again this can be done in several ways some assessor assign number values to the severity and likelihood others produce a simple matrix. The idea is that the risk is assigned as being High, Moderate, Tolerable or Low
Any risk that comes out as high or moderate the HSE will expect to see proposed actions listed and a revised risk category applied. For those of you still awake this is where the money will/should have been spent.
All Risk Assessments are legal documents and will have been signed off by the assessor undertaking the work and a senior member of the organisation. As you can see this is a very formal process and for something of the magnitude of the W&P undertaking I would expect it to run to multiple A4 sheets of close packed tabulated data.
This document should be visible to all employees, participants and indeed any member of the public, I'm not sure about the law with regard to public events but in my world it would have to be signed onto as read and understood by all who are involved with the activity.
I have already made my position clear on Beltring in a previous thread as part of my critique after the last show,..........if you want answers ask the right questions.
Pete
