Risk Assessment for Responsible Managers and Lead Assessors

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Risk Assessment for Responsible Managers and
Lead Assessors

• Mark Mallen
• Health and Safety Manager
• Fenlock Hansen Ltd

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Introduction

• Why?
• To prevent accidents and ill health!
• Its the Law!

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Objectives

• State 2 reasons why we conduct risk assessment
• Define hazard
• Identify 5 workplace hazards
• Describe two key elements in risk

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Objectives

• Describe the key elements in the hierarchy of
  control
• Describe how we do it
• Identify when they should be done
• Conduct a risk assessment

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Contents

• Legal Framework
• Hazard and Risk
• Risk Assessment
• The Hansen Method
• What Next
• Practical Exercise

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Legal Framework

• The management of health and safety at work
  regulations 1999, regulation 3
• Requires employers and self employed persons to
  conduct an assessment of the risk to workers and
  others who may be affected by their activities

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Legal Framework

• Who is Responsible?
• the employer
• can arrange for assistance
• Employers must record their significant findings

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Legal Framework

• A team activity!

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Legal Framework

• When
• Every time
• When things change
• An accident or near miss

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Legal Framework

• Regularly reviewed
• suitable and sufficient
• Hansen review annually

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Legal Framework

• Employee Duties
• Comply with reasonable requests
• Follow safe systems of work
• Use the equipment provided

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Risk Assessment

• How
• Define and study the task
• Identify what could go wrong
• How people might be harmed
• Determine precautions to protect people

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Risk Assessment

• Establish a Safe Working Practice
• Not a paper exercise

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Risk Assessment

• Hazard
• Something with the Potential to Cause Harm

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Risk Assessment

• Hazard

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Risk Assessment

• Risk
• The measure of how probable that someone will be
  harmed by a hazard and how severe that harm may be

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Risk Assessment

• Risk

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Risk Assessment

• The Hansen method

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Control Measures

• Hierarchy of control

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Hierarchy of Control

• Eliminate the hazard
• Engineered Methods Safe Place
• Procedures and Training Safe Person
• Personal Protective Equipment
• A combination of the above methods

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Hierarchy of Control

• Physical engineering controls and safeguards -
  safe place
• Normally more reliable than safe person

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Hierarchy of Control

• PPE is the least favoured option
• Only provides protection when it is worn properly
  and maintained
• The hazard is always present

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What Next?

• Forward
• Agree
• Adopt
• Issue
• Discuss

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What Next?

• Record issue and training
• Develop a safe working practice
• In place
• Start
• Manage

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Remember! 

• Keep it Simple
• Make sure people know it and understand it
• Say what we do
• Do what we say
• Manage
• Support your team

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Objectives

• State two reasons why we conduct risk assessment
• What is a hazard
• Identify 5 workplace hazards
• Describe two key elements in risk

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Objectives

• List the hierarchy of control
• How do we conduct assessments
• When should they be done
• Conduct a risk assessment

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Risk Assessment

• Thanks for listening
• Any questions
• Dont forget,
• Be safe!