Transcript Risk Assessment - Preventing Accidents (JMcN)

Risk Assessment
Preventing Accidents
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Risk Assessment – Why?
“ To prevent accidents by
identifying hazards and reducing
the risk of injury from those
hazards to as low a level as is
reasonably practicable.”
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Definition of an Accident
An unplanned, unexpected
event that can result in
injury or damage.
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Definition of a Hazard
“Something with the potential to
cause harm.”
Definition of a Risk
“The likelihood that the harm
will be realised and, for the purpose of Risk
Assessment, the severity of the harm”
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Reasonably Practicable
Assessment
Of the
Risk
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Time
Trouble
Cost
Physical difficulty
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Health & Safety Management
Policy
Organising
Auditing
Planning and
Implementing
Measuring
performance
Reviewing
performance
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Management of Health & Safety at
Work Regulations 1999
Regulation 3.
1) every employer shall make a suitable and sufficient
assessment of the risks to his employees and persons not
in his employment from the hazards arising from his
undertaking.
3) the assessment should be periodically reviewed.
4) the significant findings should be recorded where there are
more than five employees.
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Risk Assessment
 Consider
the task or processes.
 Identify the hazards.
 Identify who is at risk.
 Analyse and evaluate the risk against the severity.
 Decide on control measures.
 Implement the control measures.
 Monitor the control measures.
 Review the process.
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Who is at Risk?
 Employees.
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Directly carrying out the task.
Other employees working near the task being assessed.
Cleaning and maintenance staff.
Sex.
Age.
Health.
Special circumstances (e.g. Pregnancy).
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Who is at Risk?
 Visitors
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Invited
Customers
 Emergency services
 Delivery drivers
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Uninvited
Trespassers
 Burglars
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 Contractors.
 Cleaners
 Maintenance
 Others
 Members of the public
 Passers by
 Neighbours
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Risk Ratings
Slightly
harmful
Harmful
Extremely
harmful
Highly
unlikely
Trivial
Tolerable
Moderate
Unlikely
Tolerable
Moderate
Substantial
Likelihood
Severity
Likely
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Moderate Substantial Intolerable
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Control Measures
 Remember
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E.R.I.C.
Eliminate the hazard.
Reduce the hazard or change it for a safer alternative.
Isolate the hazard from personnel
Control the hazard
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Control Measures
 Safe
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person controls
Protective devices
Safe systems of work
Personal protective equipment
Permits to work
Training
Instruction
Supervision
Signs
Method statements
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Definition of Safe
Adj. From Latin salvus ‘uninjured.’
 1 a free of danger or injury. b out of or not exposed to
danger.
 On the safe side.
 With a margin of security against risks.
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A
condition where all the risks have been
reduced to as low a level as is reasonably
practicable.
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