Author Topic: After a bit of track safety advice (Read 660 times)

Bushwacked · « **on:** April 30, 2009, 05:41 PM »

Just posted this in another area of the site and am after some heads up on what the general concensus is from the Rad boys (and Girls) on whether this needs to be removed or not.

http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=86635.0

Cheers

B

Waxintaxin · « **Reply #1 on:** April 30, 2009, 07:38 PM »

Ask them why
as a health and safety proffesional i can only ask the question why?

someone somewhere has interpreted some health and safety legislation and will have a full reson why and whats the hazzard etc etc

if you can find that out i may be able to A understand his reasoning or give you a way out

its prob related to non bike users who could trip over the raised ground not obviously seeing it , unlike the bloody great jumps

its about risk assesment and reducing the hazzard, ask to see the risk assesment and i can look at it

Rich

Bushwacked · « **Reply #2 on:** May 01, 2009, 07:50 AM »

He's saying its a hazard if you come off the edge of the track, but if it graduates down I don't see what the problem is.

Waxintaxin · « **Reply #3 on:** May 01, 2009, 09:15 AM »

Eh , hes saying a few inches of graduated track is a hazzard to riders , but is happy to allow big jumps which quite clearly are far more of a hazzard than that lol

ask to see the risk assesment and ask him why he can reduce the risk on 5 ft doubles but cant on a small graduated side track

tell him thats ridiculous and as a hazzard reducing strategy try white lines on the side , this will mean that it is clearly marked and reduces his percived risk levels , by visualy marking the boundrys

I would love to speak to him really ,as i cant see his logic behind it and i do this for a living and have letters after my name relating to H&S lol

Bushwacked · « **Reply #4 on:** May 01, 2009, 09:22 AM »

Waxintaxin - you're a star. This guy is a local BMXer who has been riding for about 20 years if not more (injury has forced him to move away from BMX though) he's been really helpful on most points but this one he is banging on about and I just don't see the risk myself. Like you say the jumps are bigger with a higher side to fall from so the flats are surely the least of our worries.

With regard to the white lines what's the best thing to use, a bit of high grade Columbian?

Waxintaxin · « **Reply #5 on:** May 01, 2009, 01:00 PM »

he must have a reason and he must of thought it through so ask and let me know

i can surely argue against it and possibly win him over

its all about assesing the risk and introducing controls and if you can justify that the control measures reduce the risk to a reasonble level then you can do it