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Posted By Lisa May
Can anyone help???? I'm trying to determine a risk assessment process along these lines:
identify activity
identify hazard
identify risk (what the result of the hazard is)
apply controls
rate the risk
My problem is - do I apply control measures to the hazard or the risk?
e.g.
Hazard = slip, trip or fall
Risk = musculoseletak injury due to fall
Which one should control measures be applied to? the Risk or the Hazard???????
If I'm rating the Risk - surely I should apply the controls to this? But I'm getting mixed responses!!!
Help!!!
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Posted By Anthony Edwards
Lisa,
Look on the HSE web site regarding the 5 steps to risk assessment. Remembering a Risk assessment should be 'suitable and sufficient.' Have you had relevant training to conduct the assessment do you feel confident and competent to carry them out. If not ask your employer for some training.
Regards
Nutty
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Posted By Gareth W Jones
Hi Lisa
In your assessment you should look at the current controls being used which will then determine the risk, if the risk is not "low" then you need to put in place more controls to lower the risk.
That sounds complicated!! But is the best way I can describe my methods.
Regards
Gareth
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Posted By Philip McAleenan Lisa, a useful document from European Agency for Safety and health at Work; http://osha.europa.eu:80/publications/factsheets/80 Then download the pdf (short 2 pages) Regards, Philip
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Posted By Kevin Brown
Going back to basics a hazard is the potential for something to cause injury or worse. If you then factor in the likelihood of people coming into contact with the hazard, along with the possible consequences, you have your risk assessment. The first item on the list of control measures is 'eliminate' the risk. If you can't eliminate it then you could consider other control measures. As the 'risk' usually comprises two components (hazard x likelihood/consequence) any control measures you can bring to bear on either will be effective but usually one will be more reasonable or practical than any others. 'Don't run with knives' sounds trite but it's sound advice. Doing away with the need for knives in the first place is effective too. As stated elsewhere, the principles of risk assessment are well publicised and the HSE website is a mine of useful information.
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Posted By Kenneth Patrick
The EU 80 document is quite interesting but for me it does take enough care to avoid mixing up the terms risk and hazard that is the source of Lisa's confusion. I always go back to my Rospa training. A hazard is something that has the potential to cause a given harm. If you identify a hazard then you need to determine the probability of that harm actually occurring and the severity of it. You can apply controls to all three parts:
a)Eliminate the hazard.
b)reduce the probability of the harm occurring
c)reduce the severity of the potential harm
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Posted By Simon Belk
Hi Lisa
email offline and i'll send some info to you that may help.
Si
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