First Progress Report - 1. Health and Safety Plan
The Council recently provided a seminar on Risk Assessment and Management for Reserve volunteers. We attended this as a Reserve volunteer, and found it very useful, practical and on the whole encouraging.
We had prepared a list of hazards for the activites and the site, but found it did not fit the Low Risk category due to the high, steep and in places unstable banks, sink holes and hidden crevasses. We have delayed contracting a companion - surveyor, or allowing the participation of a keen potential volunteer, until we have clarified how these risks should be managed for people leaving the public footpaths.
In the interim, we have been told that herbicides are sprayed several times a year on the soft-surface path within the forest. We now need to learn what chemicals are used, their uptake by other plants, soil and water, and life in the soil and in plant material, in order to avoid contact with contaminated soil and plant material, or the introduction of contaminated material to healthy areas in the course of this Trial.
Council and Ventia have been contacted for more information and we will complete our H & S Planning once we have the necessary understanding.
Following the kind advice of allaboutpeople.co.nz, who ran the Council volunteer seminar, we have produced a draft H&S plan and await the info on pesticides to complete it.
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