Not something you expect to discuss first thing in the morning with Mrs Lovell whilst sat around the breakfast table. Storm Malik had managed to move our 14ft child’s trampoline to the other side of the garden.. 🌀
For once I hadn’t anchored the trampoline to the adjoining wall…. In my defence I had carried out an initial risk assessment and I deemed the likelihood of Storm Malik striking said trampoline and firing it across my lawn was low. I made a mistake, a misjudgement I thought the house would shelter the garden from such fierce winds.
More generally in my defence we carry out hundreds of risk assessments each day. Some are new ones; others are re-assessments of tasks that we may have performed hundreds of times. 📋
Back to the trampoline, I am now armed with evidence that my kids or indeed me could be seriously injured by being hit by the trampoline (I am equally concerned about them breaking limbs using the thing, but I’ll save that for another post) and I need to implement adequate control measures. In this set of circumstances I’ll be tethering the bloody thing to the garden wall on the next dry day…🌈
Like the weather in Manchester, risk assessments are fluid, if you need help with keeping on top of yours, you know where I am….
