Question :
(a) The garage manager of a motor vehicle mechanical repair workshop has decided to carry out a risk assessment to ensure compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Act 2005. The business employed 15 mechanics, including two apprentices who carried out mechanical repairs. As a safety and health officer, you have been asked to advise and assist the garage manger in this risk assessment exercise.
(i) Describe the factors that should be considered while carrying out the risk assessment.
(ii) Identify eleven hazards which are likely to be present in this motor vehicle mechanical repair workshop and for each hazard explain who might be harmed and how.
(iii) List the various circumstances that may require the risk assessment to be reviewed at a later date.
(b) List five requirements to make a risk assessment successful.