Risk Assessment right procedure & steps.
Introduction:
How to do Risk Assessment: Performing risk assessment may be quite complex, but by following a right strategy or steps can help you to carry a risk assessment successfully at your workplace, in this article we will discuss on a straight forward strategic planning to carry out risk assessment.
Risk Assessment Definition:
How to do risk assessment:
Follow are the minimum requirements for a risk assessment.
Decide location & activity.
Before carrying a risk assessment work location and activity must be clearly identified.
Risk Assessment team.
A competent and qualified team is very important part of risk assessment, team should have knowledge of activity, hazards, safety standards and control measures.
A Risk Assessment Format.
To carry out risk assessment and to prepare a risk assessment report you need a risk assessment format.
Download Risk Assessment Format.
Previous Risk Assessment.
A previous report of risk assessment related to same activity will help you to collect data related to work, hazard and control measures which can help you.
Safety manual & User manual.
A safety manual & user manual may be a helpful element for risk assessment, because to assess any activity you must have known of parts, steps and procedure of activity.
MSDS.
If work is related to any chemical handling a safety data sheet will guide you about characteristics of chemical and safe handling.
Inspection Checklist.
Inspection Checklist will help you to know what to be inspected during risk assessment.
Accident Report.
Accident report if any, consider accident Reports also to know what can lead to an accident & take in mind during risk assessment.
Visit work location.
Visit actual location with risk assessment team and try to identify potential risk, hazards and decide on control measures.
Prepare Risk Assessment Report.
After all these steps write your all findings in risk assessment format.
Review & update.
Review your risk assessment before applying finally at job location and update if necessary.
Feedback.
Steps of Risk Assessment.
During risk assessment also consider risk assessment steps, there are generally 5 steps of risk assessment.
- Identify the possible hazards.
- Find who can be harmed and how by the hazards.
- Evaluate the risk and decide on practicable control measures.
- Record you risk assessment findings and implement.
- Review & Update as per requirement.
FAQ's Risk Assessment
Who will be member of Risk Assessment Team?
Competent and qualified employees or third party such as safety department representative, execution engineer, supervisor, technician, site Incharge, equipment specialist
Frequency of Risk Assessment?
Risk Assessment should review or update once a year or on any change in work scope, change of equipment or management of change
Does Risk Assessment expires?
No, Risk Assessment never expire but must be updated frequently such as once in a year
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