Hazard Recognition and Risk Analysis

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Hazard Recognition and Risk Analysis
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Safety Administration

• Fire Escape Route
• Gathering Place
• Room Hazards

• Restroom Locations
• Food
• Breaks
• Cell Phones Pagers
• Materials

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Question

• What are we doing, that we have always done,
  that is no longer an acceptable risk?

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Dedication

• This training is dedicated to all employees who
  have suffered disabling injuries and to the
  memory of employees who died in workplace
  injuries.

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Learning Objectives

• After completing this training you will be able
  to
• Discuss personal risk tolerance, what influences
  our decisions and how to assess what is
  acceptable risk
• Identify safety and health hazard types
  associated with a given job task
• Apply risk reduction methods and equip you with a
  tool to analyze risk assessment to keep you safer

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Definitions

• Hazard Recognition Recognizing a condition or
  behavior that can cause harm
• Risk Analysis Analyzing the probability and
  severity of risk in order to reduce the chance
  that harm will occur

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Injuries A Matter of Probabilities
Truck Trailer Moves, driver jumps to the ground
and lift truck rolls over him
1 FATAL
Driver jumps to the ground and breaks his leg
30 LOST-TIME INJURIES
Driver jumps to the ground and sprains his ankle
300 INJURIES REQUIRING MEDICAL ATTENTION
Lift truck is driven into truck trailer and
trailer moves
3,000 NEAR-MISSES OR FIRST AID
Wheel chocks not in place at rear wheels of
trailer
30,000 HAZARDS Unsafe Acts Unsafe Conditions
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Why is Risk Analysis and Reduction Important?

• What are some examples of occupational injuries
  and illnesses that you have seen?
• What were the impacts of those injuries
• On the employee?
• To his/her family?
• To his/her co-workers?
• To the business?

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Personal Risk Tolerance

• How do we decide what is risky?
• Lets look at examples of activities and rate the
  risk level of each activity.

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Whats Your Personal Risk Tolerance?
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Disagreeing with your spouse (or significant
other)
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Factors That Influence Our Decisions

• Personal Factors
• Experience (Positive/negative)
• Knowledge/Skill
• Age
• Physical Ability
• Situational Factors
• Stress
• Rushing
• Control

• Organizational Factors
• Safety System
• Leadership Behaviors
• Peer Behaviors

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Personal Factors
What personal beliefs would motivate someone do
this?
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Our Actions Are Driven By Organizational Beliefs

• Safety Systems
• Are systems in place to encourage people to do
  the job with minimal risk?
• Leadership Behaviors
• Are at-risk, time-saving actions accepted?
• Peer Behaviors
• Do our co-workers encourage at risk behavior?

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Organizational Factors
What is in the safety system that would allow
this?
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The Social Environment and Cultural Resistance to
Change
I feel comfortable doing this and have done it
this way a thousand times before

• PPE is uncomfortable

• Safety slows a job down

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Risk Perception

• We perceive risk differently
• Many factors influence our decision
• By understanding our risk tolerance and personal
  / organizational factors, we can prevent injuries

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Objective Reasoning vs. Personal Opinion

• Use the risk assessment matrix instead of relying
  on one persons assessment of what is risky

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Accessing Acceptable Risk

• Probability
• Unlikely not likely to occur
• Likely may occur
• Very likely near certain to occur
• Severity
• Marginal Minor Injury or First Aid
• Critical Injury or Lost Time Injury
• Catastrophic Death or Permanent Disability

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Using the Risk Analysis tool to determine risk
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What Risk Code Would You Assign?
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Identifying Hazards

• Identify hazards before starting a task
• What is involved in this task that can hurt me or
  my co-workers?
• How can I/we keep from being hurt while
  performing this task?

• Types of Hazards
• Unsafe conditions
• Unsafe acts (behaviors)

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Assessing the Risks

• Surroundings
• Work, equipment and tools
• Likelihood and extent of harm what is the risk
  code?

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Developing a Safe Solution or Plan

• Can I eliminate the hazard?
• Can I minimize the risks?
• Do I need help?
• Is there a better time to do the work?
• Do others need to be informed?
• What specific PPE and tools are required?
• What lock out or permit is needed?
• Is there a JSA or reliable method/procedure I
  need to review?

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What is the Safe Solution?

• Decide if someone could be immediately injured.
• If it is an emergency (Risk Code greater than 1)
• Talk to your supervisor and reach agreement on
  how to get the issue fixed as quickly as
  possible.
• If it is NOT an emergency .

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Not Sure of a Safe Process to Use?

• Work together to develop a safe solution
• If the risk is beyond Marginal in severity and
  Likely or Unlikely to occur I need to contact
  my supervisor and/or the safety department
• Share my concerns discuss at post-outage
  meetings, team meetings, etc.
• Act safely
• Follow your solution/plan

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Lets Try the Process!

• Form teams
• Select one of the six examples on the following
  slides
• View the picture and then
• Identify the hazards
• Assess the risks
• Develop a safe solution or plan
• Report back to the group in 10 minutes

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Example 3
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Example 1
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Example 2
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Example 4
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Example 5
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Team Report Out

• What hazards did you identify?
• What risk assessment code did you identify for
  those hazards?
• What safe solutions or plans did you come up with?

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Review Before and After

• Prior to performing a task yourself
• Recognize - What is involved in this job that can
  hurt me or my co-workers?
• Reduce - How can I/we keep from being hurt while
  doing this job?
• After performing a task ask each other
• What was your assessment of the situation?
• What risks you identified?
• What were the identified controls?
• What can be shared with others?
• Share learnings at post outage meetings, team
  meetings, etc.
• Participate in injury prevention activities on
  and off the job

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Injury Prevention Activities

• JSAs/Procedures
• Engineering/Design
• Training
• Housekeeping
• Inspections/Audits
• Safety meetings

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What About the Hazards You Cant Control?
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What About the Workplace Processes that Have
Specific Controls?
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Learning Objectives - How Did We Do?

• After completing this training you will be able
  to
• Discuss personal risk tolerance, what influences
  our decisions and how to assess what is
  acceptable risk
• Identify safety and health hazard types
  associated with a given job task
• Apply risk reduction methods to keep you safer

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Summary and Evaluation

• Ask for input
• Complete class evaluation