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RISK<br />
ASSESSMENT<br />
John Davies – Safety Officer<br />
Ron Knuszka – Assistant Safety Officer
COURSE AIM<br />
To produce effective risk<br />
assessors who are able to cover<br />
the broad range of assessments<br />
required by health and safety<br />
legislation.
Learning Outcomes<br />
After the course delegates should :<br />
1. have an appreciation of health and safety<br />
legislation and its implications for risk<br />
assessment.<br />
2. be able to carry out general risk assessments<br />
3. have the practical skills necessary for adapting<br />
and applying risk assessment techniques to a<br />
wide variety of areas at work.
Learning Outcomes<br />
After the course, delegates should (Cont.,):<br />
4. be able to carry out GENERIC Risk Assessments<br />
5. be able to carry out Specific ‘HIGH RISK’<br />
Assessments<br />
6. advise and assist the Department Senior<br />
Manager in producing a Departmental Risk<br />
Action Plan.
RISK ASSESSMENT TIMETABLE<br />
13 th December 2004<br />
Receive Risk assessment Training<br />
December 2004<br />
Carry out department office risk assessments<br />
January 2005<br />
After assessments have been completed arrange a meeting<br />
with Head of Department and the Safety Office.<br />
Note: Department Risk Assessment Action Plan to be<br />
produced for this meeting.
RISK ASSESSMENT<br />
DEPARTMENT FILE<br />
&<br />
COURSE WORKBOOK
Definition of Safety<br />
Health and safety is a condition<br />
free from risk of injury or<br />
threat to our health.<br />
It is an objective to achieve and is<br />
not a natural state of affairs.
WORK SAFELY
What Is Risk Assessment?<br />
The process of identifying what hazards exists<br />
in the workplace<br />
How likely these hazards are to cause harm<br />
to employees and others ……<br />
……. to decide what workplace precautions<br />
i.e. control measures are needed to be put in<br />
place.
Will It Go<br />
Bang?
Hazard & Risk<br />
A HAZARD is an article, substance<br />
that has the potential to cause injury,<br />
loss, or damage.<br />
RISK is the probability that a hazard<br />
will cause injury, damage, or loss.
Risk Assessment - Background<br />
Health and Safety at Work etc., Act 1974<br />
Places a general (implied) duty on employers to carry out<br />
risk assessment.<br />
- Duties of employers<br />
- Duties of employees<br />
Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999<br />
Places an explicit duty on employers to carry out risk<br />
assessments.<br />
* Importantly*<br />
An employer only needs to record significant findings.
REVITALISING HEALTH & SAFETY<br />
HEALTH & SAFETY TARGETS<br />
Reduce no. of working days lost by 30%<br />
by 2010<br />
Reduce the incident rate of fatal and<br />
major injury accidents by 10% by 2010.<br />
Reduce the incident rate of work-related<br />
ill health by 20% by 2010.<br />
Achieve half the improvements under<br />
each target by 2004
Hazard & Risk<br />
Tiger is always a hazard<br />
Loose tiger is a risk.<br />
Risk Formula : Risk = Severity x Frequency<br />
Where:<br />
SEVERITY means the consequences of an identified hazard<br />
FREQUENCY means the likelihood of exposure to that<br />
hazard.
Workplace Hazards<br />
What workplace activities take<br />
place in your department?<br />
What equipment is used?<br />
What chemicals are used?
OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS<br />
ACTIVITIES EQUIPMENT CHEMICALS<br />
Using Computers<br />
Archiving – Filing / Stores<br />
Lone Working with potentially<br />
violent visitors<br />
Manual Handling:<br />
Books / Files / Paper<br />
Dealing with enquiries<br />
Using ladders / steps<br />
Teaching<br />
Cash Handling<br />
Post – in / out<br />
Organising Conferences<br />
Computers / Printers<br />
Fax machines<br />
Paper shredders<br />
Photocopiers<br />
Storage<br />
Ladders<br />
Scissors / knives<br />
Kettles / Toasters<br />
Microwave ovens<br />
Guillotines<br />
Laminators<br />
Paper Folding Machines<br />
Glass Crusher<br />
OHP / TV / Video Eqpt<br />
Glues (liquid/spray)<br />
Toners<br />
Inks<br />
Correction Fluid<br />
Whiteboard cleaner
Common Workplace Hazards
Hierarchy of Control Measures<br />
to ALL Hazards<br />
• Eliminate<br />
• Substitute<br />
• Reduce<br />
• Control<br />
• Protect
When Do Assessments Take<br />
Place?<br />
Regular Basis<br />
New Laws<br />
New Control Measures<br />
Different Work Being Carried Out<br />
New Equipment<br />
New Technology<br />
Following an Accident<br />
or Near Miss Incident
What’s Involved?<br />
What’s Involved?<br />
Competent Person<br />
Everyone consulted --to to take take part part<br />
Hazards identified<br />
Risks evaluated<br />
Workers at at risk risk identified<br />
Existing controls evaluated<br />
Action to to eliminate risks risks<br />
Assessments recorded<br />
Regular reviews
What Will Be Assessed?<br />
Equipment<br />
The Workplace<br />
Work systems<br />
& procedures<br />
Special situations
• Is it suitable for the<br />
job and properly<br />
guarded?<br />
• Is it stored and<br />
correctly<br />
maintained<br />
• Training &<br />
information<br />
provided on safe<br />
use?<br />
What Will Be Assessed?<br />
Equipment
What will be assessed?<br />
The Workplace<br />
• Housekeeping<br />
• Lighting<br />
• Heating<br />
• Ventilation<br />
• Floors, stairs, walls<br />
• Space to work in<br />
• Design & Layout<br />
• Noise
What Will Be Assessed?<br />
Work Systems & Procedures<br />
• Safe systems of<br />
work<br />
• Identifying workers<br />
most at risk<br />
• Health checks<br />
where necessary<br />
• Training and<br />
knowledge of staff
What Will Be Assessed?<br />
Special Situations<br />
• Manual handling<br />
• PPE<br />
• Noise<br />
• DSE<br />
• COSHH<br />
• Working with<br />
machinery / tools
What’s Wrong?<br />
1. Identify 5 hazards.<br />
2. Give an examples of the harm<br />
that could result with each.<br />
3. Give 1 example of a workplace<br />
precaution that needs for each hazard .
Risk Assessment Forms<br />
Generic<br />
‣ Office based<br />
‣ Completed by DSA<br />
‣ No high risks<br />
= review monthly<br />
‣ High risk = specific RA<br />
& urgent need to<br />
introduce ‘workplace<br />
controls’<br />
Specific<br />
Generic RA identified<br />
need for more detailed<br />
assessment.<br />
‣ Specific - more detailed<br />
assessment is now<br />
required
DEPARTMENT RISK<br />
ASSESSMENT ACTION PLAN<br />
Consolidate all the high risks (hazard register))<br />
Details the action to be taken to reduce the<br />
risk to an acceptable level<br />
By whom and when<br />
Note: The Department Risk Action Plan will Form the<br />
main basis of your Annual Health & Safety Report.
DEPARTMENT RISK ACTION PLAN<br />
Ref.<br />
No.<br />
TASK REVIEW<br />
RESPONSIBLE<br />
PERSON<br />
DATE FOR<br />
COMPLETI<br />
ON<br />
COMPLETED<br />
BY<br />
(Name & Date)<br />
CHECKED B<br />
(Signed &<br />
Dated)<br />
Note: This form could be adapted / expanded to suit the needs<br />
of the departments. For example additional columns could<br />
include Works Order Numbers and Costs.
NOMOGRAM OF RISK<br />
ASSESSMENT<br />
WHAT IS IT?<br />
It is an aid to assist you in assessing whether the cost /s<br />
involved in carrying out the workplace controls that<br />
you have identified are justifiable or not.<br />
It is optional whether you use it for each hazard you<br />
have identified.<br />
May be particularly useful when looking at the costs<br />
involved when high risks have been identified.
DISCUSSION<br />
&<br />
ANY QUESTIONS
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