Risk Assessment Form

Degree Show 2018 Risk Assessment

NAME:	Martha Bebe Clark
COURSE:	PTBM
MOBILE CONTACT NUMBER:	07531767430
TUTOR:	Jennet Thomas

RISK ASSESSMENT

Hazard -The potential to cause harm

Risk – Likelihood and severity of harm arising in the circumstances

Risk Assessments are undertaken as a process to foresee any potential hazards, and to identify and put in place measures to stop accidents, damage or injury to others occurring.

A Risk Assessment should not get in the way of what you want to do, but should ensure your safety and the safety of those around you. Sometimes we do have to engage with hazardous activity, and by performing a risk assessment on that activity you can make a judgement on whether it is acceptable to go ahead.

When we do something we haven’t done before it is good practice, and a legal requirement, to think ahead and make an assessment of that activity.

The Five Steps you should follow are:

1. Look for the hazards

2. Decide who might be harmed and how

3. Evaluate the risk and decide whether more should be done

4. Record your findings and action control measures

5. Review your assessment and revise it if necessary

Once you have completed a risk assessment, and it has been approved by a member of staff, all those people involved must be given a copy so everyone is aware of the hazards, and the control measures that must be adhered to.

For further information: http://www.hse.gov.uk/

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TUTOR SIGNATURE:

DATE:

This form must be submitted to your tutor for approval and sign off before you begin to install your work. Please keep a copy for your records.

Risk Assessment – The Work

Please describe your degree show artwork(s):

I intend it to be a mixed media installation below 5ft in height and a 5ft radius on the ground. there will be a 14’’ monitor and a smaller 7’’ monitor both screening non-linear animations. Placed around the screens will be a mixture of hand made cornstarch slime and balloons (soome with wet paint, some with air). I have a central part of the upstairs new build to install my work, I intend it to be a range of pastel blues, greens and pinks.

Identify any potential risks:

Because of the nature of the installation being low to the ground, it is a hazard for the public to trip on the sculptural elements within the piece. For instance their will be cornstarch based ‘slime’ and wet paint tied in balloons. For the two monitors there will be wires for charging, these will be plugged into the under-the-floor plugs that are spaced around the new build/ PTBM studio.

How do you propose to control the risks identified above?

The wet paint will be water based and household safe and the slime is flour based, so this will mean I’m not using any corrosive liquids or water soluble containers. Due to the work not being on a space defining plinth it will be important to be checked by over seerers once or twice. The hazard of tripping should be prevented by the placement of the piece being in a wide open area of the studio.  Also the placement of the installation is not near the to entry ways or in any way of the direct access to fire escapes (or in the way of other students art works).

Risk Assessment – The Installation

Please describe how you propose to install your degree show artwork(s):

I am using very ‘off-the-shelf’ materials and the monitors are basic. The complex part is mostly in measuring and putting the separate elements together. I will need advice on how near the enclosed wet paint and cornstarch slime can be to the monitors (safely).

Identify any potential risks:

My main concern is the vicinity between the ‘wet’ materials and the plugs that are inset in the floor.

How do you propose to control the installation risks identified above?

I will be talking to a technician about this, before placing anything on the floor.

Risk Assessment – The De-installation

Please describe the process for de-installation of your degree show artwork(s):

A large part of my deinstallation will consist of saving the elements that took a while to make, such as the acrylic hands. I will be taking the monitors back to the loan store. I’m also aiming to recycle the plastic and wood involved in the piece, instead of skipping it all in one go (this will require organising by myself).

Identify any potential risks:

Removing items with wet paint inside, next the electricals (cables and monitors).

How do you propose to control the installation risks identified above?

Removing electricals first when able and having water tight containers for skipping wet paint and the cornstarch slime.