Knapsack sprayers are used to apply any kind of pesticide (e.g., mostly insecticides, followed by fungicides and herbicides).
This mostly completed editable Risk Assessment will give you a good indication of the hazards such as, use of hazardous materials, spillages or contamination, riskd to public and animal, manual handling, cleaning down and more.
This file contains the following:
A mostly pre-completed and detailed ready to use risk assessment for using a Knapsack (Backpack) Sprayer/Walkover Sprayer, itemising the hazards, risks and necessary controls. You can edit the text to produce a site-specific risk assessment document for your project or workplace.
A safe operating procedure. This detailed six-page document outlines a set of detailed instructions to help workers perform Knapsack (Backpack) Sprayer/Walkover Sprayer operation properly and safely. Having standard operating procedures in place means workers don’t have to guess what to do next and can perform tasks efficiently and without danger to themselves or others.
