Workshop yard cleaning

On our last site assessment we were instructed to keep a record of the tyre depth gauge calibration, to be done every 6 months. Nothing about keeping a record of every time the workshop/yard is cleaned

It's not compulsory but it may help your score by a point or two come Site Assessment time. And tyre tread depth guage checks are 6 monthly as per Special Notice.

I always tell em its less than a month old due to being used to lift/separate tread/sidewall splits as per the manual and as a result never lasts long enuff to need calibration recording(all true)and would he like me to stock check the dead leaves on the forecourt while hes here?some take it in the offered humourous spirit,others lack that emotion....

Calibrating ?

Is that like checking it's zeroed on say a flat surface i.e. Some glass etc.....

We use the digital versions
Which you really need to zero on a flat surface every time you need to use it again.

A bit of a pain but you get used to it. And can be help when you're got a boarder line pass/fail

With every day use though your doing good to get 6 months out of them

The risk assessment was supposed to have changed to concentrate on testing, instead of how many toilet rolls you have in the loo, or how many dead leaves castrolrob has on his forecourt drastically impeding his ability to test. If not having a chart of your sweeping schedule, however simple it may be to make, is going to affect how often you need a site visit, then the lunatics really have taken over the asylum.
The 'risk' mentioned in risk assessment is the risk of non-compliance with testing procedures and methods.Perhaps DVSA could concentrate on overseeing the MOT testing scheme, instead of worrying about sweeping schedules. To be quite honest, they are struggling enough there, they really can't afford the distraction. It really is time they changed the risk assessment to reflect what it should be about. Testing.

And here is the link for the cleaning rota sheet.


www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/412131/Appendix-8-cleaning-rota.pdf

Yes, yes and yes.