Transcript Think About Health and Safety PowerPoint Presentation

Gerard Hand MSc CMIOSH MIIRSM
Vice-President IOSH
East Anglia Branch – 06.05.2011
“Sensible Risk Management – The
Pragmatic Approach”
What is ‘Real’ Risk
Two Types of Risk:
 Pure Risk – These are risks that can only have a
negative outcome and give rise to losses of some
kind
 Speculative Risk – These are risks that can have
both positive and negative outcomes, producing
gains as well as losses, e.g. investing in the stock
market
Health and safety tends to be exclusively Pure
Risks e.g. they lead to accidents, fires or damage
Risk Assessment
 Identifying the hazard, the hazardous event , the
likelihood of the hazardous event occurring and
what the consequence would be.
 Assessing the acceptability or unacceptability of
the risk
 Implementing control measures to mitigate the
risk as appropriate
HSE – Five Steps to RA
•Step 1
Identify the hazards
•Step 2
Decide who might be harmed and how
•Step 3
Evaluate the risks and decide on
precautions
•Step 4
Record your findings and implement them
•Step 5
Review your assessment and update if
necessary
IOSH Managing Safely
make a list of the work tasks that are your
responsibility
identify the risks - what are the hazards,
who might be harmed and how?
estimate the risk
evaluate the risk
record your findings
review your findings.
Evaluate the risks and decide on precautions
FORESEEABLE or
WORSE CASE SCENARIO?
How do we Assess?
Need to know what is meant by:
 Hazard / Consequence
 Risk
 Risk Control
Risk
=
Hazard / Consequence
X
Likelihood
BUT – You might die???????
East Anglia Branch - Handicap Hurdle
Horse One
Form P.U.P.U
Horse Two
Form P.0.0.P.
Horse Three
Form 1.2.3.0
Horse Four
Form 3.2.1.2.
Horse Five
Form 1.1.1.1.
Normal Expectation for Horse 1
Normal Expectation for Horse 5
But Sometimes??? – The Result
 1st
 2nd
-
Horse Number One 200/1
Horse Number Five 2/1 fav
Always Bet on the Favourite
 Risk Assessments should mirror the
obvious choice.
 No legal expectations to expect the
unforeseeable
THANK YOU