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Hello All, Risk Assessment template in my workplace has a Management Plan colums. I just want to double check when this should be filled in? What the best practice is?
I think that it needs to be filled in only when Additional Considerations are in place, not for every control measure. Thanks! Kat
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I've never seen this heading in a risk assessment template. Your interpretation of it does make sense.
Another possibility is that for existing controls, there might need to be some monitoring activity to check they are being used correctly.
Are there some previously completed risk assessments on this template that will indicate what the author of it intended?
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Hi Kate, I haven`t seen it either. It is a new template creted by our company`s H&S Manager. He said that it is okay to fill it in only when Additional Considerations are in place. However someone else is asking me to fill it in for all the control measures, which doesn`t make much sense to me...
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Hi,
We use HSE template for our risk assessments - works for us. If I were you, I would defer to your H&S Manager to ascertain how he expects it to be completed and by who. RAs should be an efficient tool in the overall management of H&S, not obscure or overly complicated.
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As your H&S manager what he wants in there. It could just be that he copied the proforma from somewhere without really reading it! Yep being cynical there!
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Well the author's explanation of what it is for is the authoritative one. And it does make perfect sense. If it was me facing the question, I would engage with the other person to find out why they wanted it filled in for the other controls to discover what concerns they might have that are motivating this wish. There may well be a better way of dealing with those.
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At the one company I had seen such a column listed in an RA it was used to document how the local management were to address the issue(s) and would include considerations such as expenditure, training and resources. These "plans" were collated on a master tracker to give the business an overview without wafting reams of paper under the senior manegement teams noses. Then we got a new MD and the business streams were tasked to respond to their own areas. This of course was a very centric organisation so required a means to flag local issues.
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At the one company I had seen such a column listed in an RA it was used to document how the local management were to address the issue(s) and would include considerations such as expenditure, training and resources. These "plans" were collated on a master tracker to give the business an overview without wafting reams of paper under the senior manegement teams noses. Then we got a new MD and the business streams were tasked to respond to their own areas. This of course was a very centric organisation so required a means to flag local issues.
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Hi Kat Any change needs time to bed in. However, sounds to me that if you are struggling to understand what this column is about and that if your H&S Manager and "someone else" interpret its purpose differently then may be there may be a need to review what wording is used for the title of this column. Sounds as if it might be a column that may have been intended to indicate whether some further action is needed and, if so, who should be responsible for that action and in an organisation that operates along "SMART" lines when.
May be in YOUR organisation's in house language that is called "Management Plan" but it sounds as if that interpretation has not spread uniformly within the organisation. As the saying goes "if it works, don't fix it". Perhaps let time determine whether it works?
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