Moving Timber

First thing i done on this task was to read through the job sheet to ensure i knew what i was going to be doing. The job was to move timber from a workshop to a container outside of the college, the next thing i had to do was to carry out a risk assessment on the partner i was with which was Josh and Vinny. In the risk assessment i had to find out things such as  complaints aches and pains, if they were physically able to carry out the task and what movements would be in use such as gripping, pushing and pulling. The next part of the task was to carry another risk assessment on the task in hand, this included the location of where the task was, which was workshop and outside, the materials used and what could be hazardous, with timber the hazards can be falls, cuts and bruises, next in the risk assessment we have to consider the probability of harm if any of these happened and the severity of risk, in this task i thought harm is likely but minor injuries. Next thing to do was to check the delivery ticket and make sure we had the same of everything, but as there was so much timber and in a working environment you would not count every piece of wood if you were doing a job if there were hundreds of pieces, so we marked the delivery unchecked, as long as you know how much of your materials you need if there are any problems you can ring the person who delivered them to say they haven't brought a certain thing. next we checked the access route to make sure there were no obstructions in the way of our route which there was none. before we could start with the task i needed to put on my PPE, in this task my appropriate PPE would be steel toe cap boots to protect feet from falling timber, gloves to protect hands from splinters and goggles in case any sawdust, dust went into my eyes. the next thing we done was to put the timber in piles of the same measurements, after this was done all the scrap bits of wood we put into another workshop so different students could use them in there work, the timber left over was long unused wood so we carried it the the access route to the container outside, the correct way to carry long pieces of timber are over the shoulder with both hands securely on the timber, this way you have full control on where the timber is going. one this job was done we went back into the workshop and cleared up. Once this was done i reported back to my boss to say the job had been finished