Risk Assessment Course Principles and Practice

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Risk Assessment CoursePrinciples and Practice
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Types of Risk Assessment
Ongoing
Site Specific
Generic
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Managing Risk Sensibly Reasonably
Practicable Foreseeable Suitable and
Sufficient Focus on Significant Hazards Duty of
Care Not Life Risks Simple Efficient Cost
Effective Good Practice Common Sense
Ive been doing this for twenty years without a
hitch Someone else should do this
Its not worth the risk Where do you
stop? You have to risk assess everything
Apathy
Paranoia
No consideration
Overkill
Weve done the best we can We can always
review and improve this
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Aims

• Contribute to Risk Assessment programme
• Conduct Risk Assessments
• Organise and implement a Risk Assessment
  programme
• Identify specific training needs
• Assist in meeting legal requirements
• Increase Safety for all

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What is Risk Assessment?

• A risk assessment is nothing more than a careful
  examination of what in the workplace could cause
  harm.
• It is a formal exercise required by law, where
  the employer has to identify the risks to
  employees and others associated with their
  business activities.

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What is the purpose of Risk Assessment

• to identify what measures have been taken, or
  should be taken to comply with any relevant
  statutory requirements or provisions relating to
  the risks identified.

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Definition of an Accident (ROSPA)

• An unplanned and uncontrolled event, which has
  led to, or could have caused injury to persons,
  damage to plant or other loss

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Distinction between accident and injury

• A major difficulty in accident prevention is that
  accident and injury has come to mean one and
  the same thing. It is important to distinguish
  the difference between the two an injury is the
  result of an accident. Many accidents occur
  which have the potential to cause injury but do
  not.

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Accident StatisticsIn an average year

• 1,000 people are killed in the workplace
• 500,000 injured
• Every day 4 people are killed in the workplace.

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Pavements - slips and trips

• X10 increase in claims over last
• 10 years
• Costs 350 million a year
• 9 out of 10 claims fail
• Manchester CC spend 1/3rd of
• their maintenance budget on
• paying claims

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Why Prevent Accident

• Legal
• Moral
• Economic

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Occupational Health Safety

• Occupational Factors
• Environmental Factors
• Human Factors

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Concept of Risk Assessment

• Risk assessment is about identifying what might
  go wrong, prioritising the possibilities and
  implementing control measures to prevent them
  from occurring.

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What is Risk Assessment?

• A risk assessment should usually involve
  identifying the hazards present in any
  undertaking (whether arising from work activities
  or from other factors, e.g. the layout of the
  premises) and then evaluating the extent of the
  risks involved, taking into account whatever
  precautions are already been taken.

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Definition of Hazard

• A hazard is something with an inherent potential
  to cause harm.

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Definition of Risk

• Risk is the likelihood or probability that a
  hazard will cause actual harm.

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Control Measures

• Control measures are the arrangements made or
  precautions taken to reduce risk.

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About Risk Assessment

• Suitable and sufficient
• Identify significant risks arising out of work
  activities
• Enable identification and prioritisation of the
  measures needed to comply with H S legislation
• Be appropriate to the work activities
• Remain valid for a reasonable time period

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Risk Assessment in Practice

• Prior to commencing thorough preparation is
  necessary
• Briefing all personnel involved
• Ensuring risk assessors are competent
• Itemise the potential cause of loss

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Stages Involved in a Risk Assessment

• Identification of hazards
• Identification of people at risk
• Evaluation of the risk
• Selection of additional control measures
• Information and training
• Records
• Monitoring and review

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Priorities in Prevention

• Avoid a risk altogether
• Combat risks at source
• Adapt work to the individual
• Give priority to those measures which protect the
  whole workplace
• Ensure everyone involved knows what they are
  expected to do
• An active Health Safety culture

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Questions