Hello,

I am really keen in implementing this system in our workplace but was wondering if anyone else has this system?

I got this idea from article in HSW Magazine with regards to Linpack article recently but still have some questions.

Really want to try and improve the way people think on safety and think this could be the way forward. We already have a very good near miss reporting system in place where each and every staff have a near miss reporting booklet.

If anyone has this implemented already, your feedback and tips would be much appreciated.

Katie

Katie,

Have you considered Tool Box Talks plus other means of communication based on the near miss reporting. This would refresh peoples minds on a regular basis as to the main hazards in the work place and could help to reduce them further

SBH

Ron

Shows how hard people are trying to prove they are doing RAs without actually having to do them. What it shows is ultimately the whole process of RA is not properly understood. Hence the HSE have a free hit everywhere they go to investigate.

Mind you that this does not mean they truly understand it either, see 5 steps to risk assessment and the guidance for my primary evidence of this lack.

Bob

Katie,

I imagine that you understand the risk assessment process and wanted responses as to whether it would take your company's H&S system forward, or augment it....

Try it out..... anyhting that focus's the workforces minds onto H&S should be a good thing....

At odds with some of the posts, depending on the industry and application, I believe this is absolutely the key to good H & S ; the appropriately trained individual - at the time of intervention (I prefer "On-the-Spot" assessment) - checking that it is safe to start work. ("last minute risk anaylysis" as per previous link to DIBEC, rather implies you just remembered before it was too late !)

How this is in any way inferior to what we are currently being asked to do by high-profile clients (requiring an office bod to prepare a piece of paper to satisfy a tick in a box in advance of a visit) is quite beyond me.

(and we're very small but a colleague working in a globally respected engineering company has to go through the same nonsense for ignorant little Hitlers in national organisations who should know better !)

Recent discussion at our Safety Group : since this became the pivot of H & S management in 1974 (so coming up 40 years) and despite all the experts and enforcers here assembled, we don't have a coordinated voice and we're still batting it about.

The single biggest indictment of the H & S profession ! Frankly disgraceful.

Again, IOSH, bang heads together - bring out the definitive guide - machine, task, material, environment - by industry - by risk level - by size of project : What is the appropriate format. Is this is something which the SSIP should also be looking at ?

And the helpful chap saying he's not happy with the HSE template - exactly why not ? because it doesn't have some readily-by-passed matrix of likelihood x severity - and is not scored out of 9/25/50 or 100 ? If you're dissing someone's efforts, let's have a look at your own good efforts so we can all learn.

Agree and disagree. If any part of the process involves assessing risk and where required implementing a control to reduce or eliminate, then the term risk assessment may be used as part of the process. In any case, I support any system that improves safety irrespective of what we call it and yes, "ownership" is key.

How about a tool box talk for with some HSE guidewords on the back to stimulate discussion. Get the work party to identify and list hazards and control measures associated with the task. We use this format in the offshore industry and it is very sucessful