HSE with the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) have updated and reissued the Slips Assessment Tool (SAT). The original version was launched in October 2004. Since then, there have been 8,500 downloads of SAT and there are over 1300 registered users. The tool is used both by health and safety personnel and by regulatory inspectors who use it during routine inspections and in investigations.
Early in 2006 HSL conducted a user survey to obtain feedback on SAT with a view to carrying out a simple update. The survey provided numerous examples of improvements in slip controls, which users had incorporated at their workplaces following use of SAT. For example:
The survey showed that no fundamental changes to SAT were called for, but there were requests for enhancements, which would make the tool more useful or easier to use. As far as possible, the requested enhancements have been incorporated into the new version.
Apart from eliminating a minor software problem, the main improvements centre on the presentation of the SAT results pages. The results page and the bar chart page have been combined into one, and additional help features have been incorporated. The additional advice centres on the sort of remedial measures that users could take to reduce slips risks depending on the slip risk results generated. The bar chart can now be printed out and is actually incorporated in some of the report formats.
To access the revised SAT on the HSE web site click on http://www.hsesat.info. There is an E-mail helpline sat@hsl.gsi.gov.uk should users encounter any difficulty downloading or using SAT.
New users of SAT, and existing users who haven’t yet registered, are advised to register the SAT – they will then be informed automatically of any future SAT upgrades.
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