A properly implemented program of Risk Assessments can assist in the prevention of injuries, fatalities, property damage incidents and other losses. This not only helps to prevent human loss and suffering but also assists the effective management and finance of any business or organization. The process will also help to protect the organizations' commercial reputation.
The webinar will consider a series of real-life examples, identifying the associated hazards and considering Control Measures. There will be consideration of who may be harmed by these hazards and the focus will be wider than just the immediate workforce (to include visitors, members of the public, contractors, etc).
After analysis of the hazards, suggestions will be made on the appropriate control measures that could be employed to either avoid (preferably) or to control or mitigate the hazards. In some cases, different solutions will be proposed and explained. This helps to demonstrate that the process is not prescriptive, but that there may well be more than one approach that is effective and to highlight the need for the Control Measures to be designed to the circumstances that exist within your Company. Consideration will be given to the “hierarchy of control”, showing the importance of selecting the most appropriate and effective solution. Record keeping and the need to keep the risk assessments up to date (reviewing and revising) will be discussed. A simple process for Risk Assessment visualization will be considered.