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Security fencing risk assessment and method statement
Prepare RAMS for erecting mesh and palisade security fencing. Add the site and the specified fence system, keep the suggestions that apply and read the PDF draft.
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What a Security fencing RAMS covers
Installing perimeter security fencing to a specified system: setting the posts, hanging welded mesh panels or palisade pales, and fixing them with that system's own fixings.
- Mesh fence installation
- Palisade fence installation
Suggested steps and hazards for Security fencing
What it offers for mesh fence installation before you have answered anything.
Check the weather before you start
- Do not lift or fix fence panels and pales in strong wind; a large sheet is a sail.
- Stop in heavy rain, ice or lightning, and rest in the shade in hot weather.
Hazard
Wind catches the fence panels and pales or blows someone off balance at height
Who might be harmed and how
The team and people below
Controls in place
- Agree a wind limit for panels and platforms and check the forecast each morning.
- Tie down or take in loose materials before you leave.
Wind is the main weather cause of falls and dropped loads in outside work at height.
HSE: Work at height Stop things falling on people below
- Fence off the ground below the work so nobody walks under the fence panels and pales.
- Use toe boards, brick guards or netting on platforms and lanyard tools where you can.
Hazard
Fence panels and pales falling onto people below
Who might be harmed and how
People below, including the public
Controls in place
- Lower waste in bags or a chute, never throw it.
- Keep the exclusion zone up until the last item is down.
Falling objects are a leading cause of harm to the public near construction.
HSE: Protecting the public Check the mesh system
- Check the delivered mesh, posts, rails, fixings and any gate interface against the job information.
- Keep the manufacturer instructions with the work.
Hazard
The wrong or incomplete system leaves the fence weak or impossible to finish safely.
Who might be harmed and how
The fencing team, site users and the fence owner
Controls in place
- Stop if the parts do not match the specified system.
- Do not substitute fixings from another system.
The mesh, posts and fixings must work as one specified system.
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What the builder asks about Security fencing
Your answers decide which steps, hazards and controls it suggests.
The job
- Which mesh fence system are you fitting?
- Which palisade system are you fitting?
Where
- What pipes or cables run under the fence line and around post holes?
How it’s done
- What will you stand on to reach the work?
- How are the mesh posts fixed?
- How are the palisade posts fixed?
- Will you cut anything on site, and with what?
- How will the fence posts, panels and pales get to the work?
What your Security fencing RAMS includes
Method statement
The sequence of the work, step by step. The suggestions are a starting point; you write the method for the job as it will be done.
Risk assessment
Each hazard, who could be harmed, the controls in place and any further action. There is no risk score: you judge each row against the real site, and adding a hazard does not put its controls in place.
PDF draft for review
The document as you left it, for someone competent to check. A download is not approval and not permission to start work.