Top Tips for Getting your Business’ Health & Safety Ready for Winter

• Walk the main internal and external routes that operatives use at different times of the day.
• Undertake a risk assessment of potential hazards and what you’ll do to mitigate the risk

• Discourage people from taking shortcuts over grass or dirt which are likely to become slippery when wet.
• Consider converting existing shortcuts into proper paths or supply temporary matting and removing standing water.

• Put a procedure in place to prevent an icy surface forming and/or keep pedestrians off the slippery surface.
• Use grit or similar, on areas prone to be slippery in frosty, icy conditions.
• Consider covering walkways e.g., by a canopy high enough for people to walk through or use an insulating material on smaller areas overnight.
• Divert pedestrians to less slippery walkways and barrier off existing ones and provide warning signage.
• If warning cones are used, remember to remove them once the hazard has passed or they will eventually be ignored.

–          Grit BEFORE frost, ice and snow is forecast, ideally early evening or early morning