Dear Learners
Today we are going to talking today about the risk assessment process, steps of risk assessment, and control measures regarding risk ratings
Risk assessment is a process to eliminate the hazard and reduce the risk to an acceptable level or method where you
(Identify hazards and risk factors that have the potential to cause harm (hazard identification -
(Analyze and evaluate the risk associated with that hazard (risk analysis, and risk evaluation -
Determine appropriate ways to eliminate the hazard, or control the risk when the hazard -
(cannot be eliminated (risk control
A risk assessment is a thorough look at your workplace to identify those things, situations, processes, etc. that may cause harm, particularly to people. After identification is made, you analyze and evaluate how likely and severe the risk is. When this determination is made, you can next, decide what measures should be in place to effectively eliminate or control the harm from happening.
The HSE Culture "Occupational health and safety - Hazard identification and elimination and risk assessment and control" uses the following terms
Risk assessment – the overall process of hazard identification, risk analysis, and risk evaluation.
Hazard identification – the process of finding, listing, and characterizing hazards.
Risk analysis – a process for comprehending the nature of hazards and determining the level of risk.
Notes
Risk analysis provides a basis for risk evaluation and decisions about risk control -
Information can include current and historical data, theoretical analysis, informed opinions, and -
the concerns of stakeholders
Risk analysis includes risk estimation -
Risk evaluation – the process of comparing an estimated risk against given risk criteria to determine the significance of the risk
Risk control – actions in implementing risk evaluation decisions.
Note: Risk control can involve monitoring, re-evaluation, and compliance with decisions
Risk assessments are very important as they form an integral part of an occupational health and safety management plan. They help to
Create awareness of hazards and risks.
Identify who may be at risk (e.g., employees, cleaners, visitors, contractors, the public, etc.
Determine whether a control program is required for a particular hazard.
Determine if existing control measures are adequate or if more should be done.
Prevent injuries or illnesses, especially when done at the design or planning stage.
Prioritize hazards and control measures.
Meet legal requirements where applicable.
can prevent personal injuries in your health
Reduce the cost by preventing accident to occur it's very important, because as.
we know, whenever, you have an accident you have to spend some costs
Hazard
A hazard you may know is something with the potential
to cause harm, as well as the risk is the likelihood of this hazard to cause
harm
the Risk Assessment usually is 5 steps of the process
- Identify who might be at risk and identify all the risk related to each every step that you decide to break down into small parts
- Then you are estimating the risk, basically
you are giving this rating, you multiply the likelihood, and the
consequence and you are giving risk rating, by using the risk matrix
Note
The risk matrix is a matrix that is used during risk assessment to define the level of risk by considering the category of probability or likelihood against the category of consequence severity. This is a simple mechanism to increase the visibility of risks and assist management decision making
- Evaluate these risks ratings
Note
, It means you are
coming to the situation and then you have numbers risks rating with you, okay, then
by looking at those risk rating and the numbers, and then you are going to ask
yourself that is this enough for me to perform this activity safely, without
exposing my self and others to related risks, if you answer with yes it's okay
fine to proceed performed activity, if not, you have to do more action by put in
place some mitigation & protection measures to reduce the risk rating into an acceptable level, so make your task as safe as possible
The risk rating for individual hazards can then be
classified as follows
1-4
This is the usual rating you would expect and in
the majority of cases is the normal condition using the correct control
measures, but an accident or incident could still happen.
5-10
Record the finding of your assessment and introduce additional control measures to improve the Risk rating. Certain activities will be out of your control so every effort should be exercised when carrying out such activities with medium risk
11-25
Stop immediately/do not start an activity and seek further advice
Record your findings
Note
You can use any format you want, and it depends on your company documentations, of course, you have to use a presentable format, usually use Microsoft word or Microsoft Excel to form your Risk Assessment and record my findings,
Review your finding and auditing the Risk Assessments
Note
This is an important part of the Risk Assessment process, maybe you are going to make significant changes to workplace processes or design, Whenever new machinery, substances or procedures are introduced or whenever there is an injury or incident as a result of hazard, so you need to break down again your task into small parts to see you have done this misjudgment may be, it is all about your reviewing, and you know making it a dynamic Risk Assessment, we have a generic Risk Assessment, but a dynamic let you review it you know as per let say the conditions....what are my conditions require, and as per these conditions I would like to review them from time to time, changing risk rating and evaluating them like ...A PDCA cycle as a continuous process okay
There may be many reasons a risk assessment is needed, including
Before new processes or activities are introduced
Before changes are introduced to existing processes or activities, including when products, machinery, tools, equipment change or new information concerning harm becomes available
When hazards are identified
The aim of the risk assessment process is to evaluate hazards, then remove that hazard or minimize the level of its risk by adding control measures, as necessary. By doing so, you have created a safer and healthier workplace.
The goal is to try to answer the following question
?What can happen and under what circumstances
?What are the possible consequences
How likely are the possible consequences to occur?
Is the risk-controlled effectively, or is further action required?
Note
One important thing is that the Risk Assessment should be done by a competent team, this competent team should or can be consist of machinery operators, workshop manager, one person from the HSE department, one person let say from shop flor, and any other competent person, all these people should come together, breaking down the task, identify the relating risks, give risks ratings, evaluate and then record findings...and reviewing when required,
that is all about Risk Assessment, Thank you very
much to listen to me, if you have any advises, we will be very happy to listen
from you
Happy day
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