RA-HS148 Maintenance and Repair of Air Cooling and Refrigeration Equipment
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This example covers maintenance and repair of air cooling and refrigeration equipment - unfamiliar plant, moving parts, electrical fault-finding, lone working and refrigerant work.
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Risk Assessment - Maintenance and Repair of Air Cooling and Refrigeration Equipment
This pre-completed risk assessment covers planned and reactive maintenance, service and repair of air cooling and refrigeration equipment across domestic, commercial and industrial installations. It considers service and call-out engineers, apprentices, supervisors, site responsible persons and anyone near the work.
What Does This Risk Assessment Cover?
The assessment addresses the significant hazards of service and repair work, including:
- Unfamiliar plant - reactive call-outs and first-time visits to equipment in unknown condition
- Moving and rotating parts - fans, belt drives, pulleys, compressor couplings and automatic dampers on operating plant
- Electrical hazards - shock, arc flash and burns during testing, fault-finding and repair
- Manual handling - removal and replacement of compressors, motors, fans and heat exchangers
- Work at height - rooftop plant, high-level pipework, ceiling voids and elevated condensers
- Refrigerant and pressure - releases, cold surfaces and pressure events during leak repair and component replacement
- Lone working - routine service and reactive call-outs undertaken by a single engineer at remote sites
- Slips, trips and falls - test leads, tools, parts and spills around the work area
How the Risks Are Rated
Every hazard is scored twice. The inherent rating shows the risk before controls are considered, and the residual rating shows the risk that remains once the listed controls are in place - giving a clear picture of how much each set of controls is actually doing. Ratings are selected from pre-populated drop-down boxes, with document styles that colour-match each rating automatically, and recognised safety pictograms mark hazards, mandatory controls and prohibitions throughout.
Who Is This Risk Assessment For?
This assessment is suitable for any business servicing cooling and refrigeration plant, including:
- Refrigeration and air conditioning service contractors
- Planned maintenance and call-out teams
- Facilities management providers
- In-house engineering and maintenance departments
Ready to Adapt to Your Work
The controls reflect established good practice for service and repair. Review each row against your own contracts and sites, adjust the ratings where your circumstances differ, and record your site-specific details in the completed-by and location fields.
Health and Safety Compliance
This document provides ready-to-use evidence of risk assessment and supports occupational health and safety management. The assessment is based on the F-HS20 General Risk Assessment template, is fully editable in Microsoft Word, and can be customised with your company details, site-specific information and review dates.