210120RAPlanningCommitteeSiteVisitKilliehuntlyBothies

Risk Assess­ment

CNPA Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Site Vis­it from Kil­liehuntly Farm to two pro­posed both­ies by Lochan nan Reamh and River Tromie – 20/01/21

Task / Work activ­ity /​operation Description:

CNPA Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Site Vis­it to pro­posed both­ies by Lochan nan Reamh (approx. 500m SE of) and the River Tromie (400m SW) of Kil­liehuntly Farm, Kingussie.

Site vis­it will com­mence at 2pm at Kil­liehuntly. Board mem­bers should make their own travel arrange­ments to site. A final decision on wheth­er under­take site vis­it on basis of weath­er fore­cast will be taken at vir­tu­al Plan­ning Com­mit­tee meet­ing on morn­ing of 28 January.

Loc­a­tion:

Kil­liehuntly, Kingussie

Date of assessment:

20 Jan 2022

Assessors:

Katie Crerar

Review date:

Sig­na­ture:

Katie Crerar

Num­ber	Haz­ards: e.g. Trail­ing cable	Per­sons & num­bers exposed	Harm: e.g. Trip­ping over cable and sprain­ing ankle.	Risk Rat­ing Without Con­trols	Con­trols: E.g. re route cable or cov­er with cable tidy	Risk Rat­ing With Controls
				C	L	R	C	L	R
1	Expos­ure to Cov­id 19 virus	Mem­bers of the CNPA Plan­ning Com­mit­tee, Staff & Mem­bers of Public	Becom­ing ill with Covid19	1	4	3	1. All attendees must have car­ried out a lat­er­al flow test with­in 12 hours pri­or to the site vis­it and have uploaded their res­ult to the NHS res­ults ser­vice. Only people with a neg­at­ive res­ult may attend the visit.

1. Site vis­it will be entirely out­side to reduce any risks of transmission.

2. Social dis­tan­cing will be encour­aged on the vis­it although guid­ance does not require spe­cif­ic social dis­tan­cing dur­ing out­door events. | 4 | 1 | 4 | | 2 | Road and traffic on onsite | Mem­bers of the CNPA Plan­ning Com­mit­tee, Staff & Mem­bers of Pub­lic | RTA’s and col­li­sions | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1. Cars will only stop at the des­ig­nated park­ing at Kil­liehuntly Farm.

3. Par­ti­cipants will be briefed to take care on estate tracks but there will be few vehicles. | 4 | 1 | 4 | | 3 | Weath­er — cold and/​or wet | Mem­bers of the CNPA Plan­ning Com­mit­tee, Staff & Mem­bers of Pub­lic | Expos­ure | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1. Advise mem­bers to wear appro­pri­ate cloth­ing for the con­di­tions There will be rough and wet/​boggy ground and poten­tially cold/​wet/​windy weather.

4. Dis­tance of walk will be up to 2km and dur­a­tion of vis­it unlikely exceed 2 hours.

5. Mem­bers can return to own trans­port whenev­er they choose.

6. Site vis­it will be can­celled if fore­cast is extreme or shortened or can­celled if weath­er con­di­tions on site are extreme. | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | | 4 | Weath­er — high winds, storm | Mem­bers of the CNPA Plan­ning Com­mit­tee, Staff & Mem­bers of Pub­lic | Blown and fall­ing objects such as tree branches. | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1. Site vis­it will be can­celled if fore­cast is extreme or if weath­er con­di­tions on site are extreme. | 3 | 1 | 3 | | 5 | Uneven or slip­pery or wet/​icy ter­rain includ­ing steep areas | Mem­bers of the CNPA Plan­ning Com­mit­tee, Staff & Mem­bers of Pub­lic | Slips, trips and falls | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1. Par­ti­cipants will be briefed to take care for uneven paths/​surfaces. Access to each site involves sec­tions of rough and wet ground where slips and stumbles are likely. Advise that only par­ti­cipants who are con­fid­ent walk­ing over very rough ground par­ti­cip­ate in final approach Lochan bothy site.

7. Staff attend­ing site vis­it to carry a mobile phone to con­tact emer­gency ser­vices in case of accident.

8. Par­ti­cipants will always be close to a vehicle track from where assist­ance can be provided.

9. Staff will advise par­ti­cipants to seek med­ic­al advice fol­low­ing any slips, trips or falls, sup­port­ing where required.

10. If sur­faces are sig­ni­fic­antly iced over or unpass­able, field trip can be shortened or can­celled. | 4 | 2 | 8 |

Fur­ther Recommendations

Addi­tion­al con­trols that would fur­ther reduce the risk if Imple­men­ted in the future.

	Date to be Actioned by	Date Com­pleted

PPE Require­ment

Risk Rat­ing Key

Like­li­hood (L) x Con­sequence © = ®Over­all Risk Rat­ing 1 Very Unlikely 1 Insig­ni­fic­ant 17 – 25 Unac­cept­able 2 Unlikely 2 Minor 10 – 16 Tol­er­able 3 Fairly Likely 3 Mod­er­ate 5 – 9 Adequate 4 Likely 4 Major 1 – 4 Accept­able 5 Very likely 5 Catastrophic

Checked by: Gav­in Miles Sig­na­ture: Gav­in Miles Pos­i­tion: Head of Stra­tegic Planning