Health & Safety Portal
7 Shepherds Drive
This page aims to make it easy and assessable for all staff to view the risk assessments applicable to work carried out at Shepherds drive. These risk assessments are both task specific and/or for certain areas within this site.
It is important to remember, just because you have read a risk assessment, does not mean you are permitted or able to carry out that task. You must be authorised and trained.
Isolate conveyor, remove components, reassemble safely, reinstall guards.
The bulk material transport and tipping operation’s within the MDR Tipping hall
Use of electric and air powered angle grinders, for maintenance activities, grinding, cutting etc
Third-party quality inspections of baled recyclable material that is produced in the Material recovery facility.
The manual separation of mixed dry materials by hand sorting using vacuum and chute systems.
Plant cleaning and maintenance operations for the automated sorting plant including, conveyors, chutes and optical sorting fixed plant machinery
Safe use, maintenance and cleaning of News Screen Separator (ONP)
Cleaning All Areas of the Plant -removal of debris, cleaning of dust, to keep the workplace clean, tidy & reducing the risk of fire & reducing accidents / Incidents by slip, trip & fall incidents
Manual removal of visible bottles from stacked bales by authorised staff. Undertaken in plant floor within a cordoned off area with forklifts in operation.
Maintenance activities ensure workplace structures, equipment, and facilities remain efficient, safe through repair, servicing, inspection, testing.
Safe use, maintenance and cleaning of V Screen.
Safe lifting operations using the crane gantry system for the installation and maintenance of fixed plant machinery.
Safe Use and Maintenance of Balers and associated Conveyors
Manual handling activities in the Re-Gen Waste workplace.
Safe use of the glass processing machinery
The tool used for drilling holes in metals of various diameters and depths for installation and maintenance of fixed plant machinery frames or other tasks
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The use of compressors and compressed air power tools across Re-Gen.
Maintenance regimes in Re-Gen Waste may require the need to drain fuel tanks from vehicles at intermittent times.
Use of power/unpowered hand tools including drills, changing drill bits, drilling holes, knives for maintenance and cleaning operations.
The Bottle Piercer perforates and presses the air out of the plastic bottles, improving the filling density and the quality of the bales.
Safe use, maintenance, and cleaning of OCC Disc Screen Card Separator
Bale wrapping machine is a specific apparatus allowing the bandage with automatic plastic film of bales of waste.
The precautionary steps to take before undertaking maintenance tasks on the Linder. This assessment details the safety devices
Access for cleaning and maintenance purposes - Hard facing of the cutting edges, cleaning and basic maintenance and clearing blockages
Manual selection of material for analysis of SRF plant.
Safe Use and Maintenance of Balers and associated Conveyors.
Operating the Palfinger crane for loading materials into the Metso shredder.
Loading of bales from the SRF and RDF output, onto the flat trailer for transport.
Transport and discharge of municipal solid waste tunnel 3, 4 and tipping hall 5 by external and internal drivers.
Shredding of Material to achieve a Representative sample of the correct sizing for testing.
Covering or uncovering trailers with a sheet or net to contain loose material and prevent spillage.
The safe use of the Metso shedder for shedding the MSW bulky materials.
The safe cleaning and disposal of oil / diesel spills.
The safe procedures on how the complete the cleaning tasks around the office buildings
General Maintenance & Bearing Replacement on Conveyors during Planned Shutdown
​the safe loading and unloading of HGV on third party operated sites.
Occupational dust assessment for Shepherds Drive
Power washing lorries, trailers and plant/machinery in the washing bay
The safe procedures on transport and sorting municipal solid waste through loading and tipping operations.
Covers all fire risk within Re-Gen and how we