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#1 Posted : 09 January 2007 15:07:00(UTC)
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Posted By Colin Wallace
Can anyone offer advice on preparing documents for One minute Risk assesssments ?
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#2 Posted : 09 January 2007 15:24:00(UTC)
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Posted By Charley Farley-Trelawney
Colin

Am I to assume that you refer to software project risk as opposed to H&S RA?

CFT
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#3 Posted : 09 January 2007 15:34:00(UTC)
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Posted By Colin Wallace
Hi

No I was meaning a one minute approach to an RA
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#4 Posted : 09 January 2007 15:49:00(UTC)
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Posted By Charley Farley-Trelawney
In that case Colin, I am unable to assist.

All the best

CFT
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#5 Posted : 09 January 2007 15:52:00(UTC)
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Posted By David Bannister
Hi Colin, I've not come across this concept before. Can you offer any guidance as to where I may learn more?

My first thought was that to approach a risk assessment with the expressed objective to get it done in a minute is rather missing the point. If it is a trivial risk then OK, but anything needing a little thought or further investigation/research cannot be tidied away in a minute.

Surely the aim of a risk assessment is ultimately to reduce the risk to an acceptable level, not just to fill in the paper form.
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#6 Posted : 09 January 2007 15:58:00(UTC)
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Posted By Colin Wallace
Hi

The reason I was asking was I partly overheard a conversation on the subject but didn't get a chance to speak with those discussing it.

Seemed to be some format to assess wether a full RA was required and was used as a tool to encourage staff to stop and think before proceeding with a task and deciding if a fulkl RA was required.

Of course the problem is I heard only part of the conversation and could be down a blind alley with my question. However the idea intrigued me.

Colin
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#7 Posted : 09 January 2007 16:00:00(UTC)
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Posted By Philip McAleenan
Colin,

Have a look at the “5 Minute Safety Management Seminar” PPT on http://www.web-safety.com/Exchange/index.htm . We produced this a number of years ago and have subsequently won international recognition for the model described.

If you look also at the “technical papers” section you will find a number of papers that explain it in greater depth (but takes a bit longer than 5 minutes to read”

Regards, Philip
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#8 Posted : 09 January 2007 16:36:00(UTC)
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Posted By Merv Newman
This sounds like the Dynamic Risk Assessment approach. There have been a couple of threads on this (one last week ?)

Employees are trained on basic Risk Assessments but have a card (or pad of forms) which they fill out on the spot BEFORE starting the job.

Merv
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#9 Posted : 10 January 2007 10:04:00(UTC)
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Posted By Colin Wallace
Hi

Thanks everyone, now have the answers to my question.
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